Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsTeachersPolitical activistsHistoryJessie and John McLeod were generally interested in left-wing issues throughout their lives and had many friends in the CPA although they themselves were never members. They held advanced ideas on aboriginal advancement, ecology, foreign affairs and particularly education. Jessie was a teacher and in the 1980s she co-authored a series of books with Helen Palmer. John McLeod was an influential member of the Psychology and Guidance Branch of the Victorian Education Department from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. and influenced many educational policies and innovations. During the war he was involved in the Army Psychological Clinic.
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