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Frank Hardy (21 March 1917–28 January 1994) was a left-wing novelist and writer from Australia. Events 630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem. Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The Excommunication of Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor is lifted Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. He was also a political activist bringing the plight of Aboriginal Australians to international attention with the publication of his book The Unlucky Australians in 1968. This is an article about a class of people as identified and defined within Australian law He ran for the Australian parliament twice. The Parliament of Australia or Commonwealth Parliament is the legislative branch of government of Australia.

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Frank Hardy was born in 1917 at Southern Cross in Western Victoria and later shifted with his family to Bacchus Marsh, west of Melbourne. (Hocking, Armstrong, Adams). His mother was a Catholic and his father, Thomas, a non-believer from Welsh and English extraction. In 1931 Hardy left school at the age of 14 and started a series of manual jobs. According to Armstrong (p. 8), "his first job was as a messenger/bottlewasher at the local chemist's shop" and then he worked at the local grocer. He later also did manual work "in and around Bacchus Marsh in the milk factory, digging potatoes, picking tomatoes and fruit" (Ibid).

There is some debate amongst Hardy's biographers about the relative extent Hardy personally suffered from hardships during the 1930s depression. Hardy claimed himself that he left home when he was 13 because "his dad couldn't get the dole" with me at home (Interview entitled "Hardy declares war on poverty" in The Herald (Melbourne) of 7th October 1983). The Herald was a Broadsheet Newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia from 1840 to 1990 Jim Hardy, Frank's eldest brother as Armstrong notes, however, wrote to the Melbourne Herald (6th November 1983) to correct this assertion, claiming that Frank had never had to leave home, and further noting that their "father never lost a day's work in his life. " According to Hocking (p. 11) in a more recent biography, however, Tom Hardy, had indeed lost his job at the Federal milk factory at the start of the depression, and the family had had to move into a small rented house in Lerderderg Street. Whatever the nitpicking details of Hardy's background, there can be little doubt, however, that coming from a struggling, large Catholic family, dependent mostly on the sole income of their father, Hardy knew quite well what poverty was. Even Armstrong (p. 10), who is easily Hardy's most hostile biographer, is quite clear that Hardy's future career and political views as a writer were largely shaped by his own personally felt experiences of poverty and the constraints of living in a small country town during the Depression.

As a result of his experiences during the Depression, Hardy joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1939. This article is about the historical Communist Party of Australia dissolved in 1991 According to Armstrong, Hardy enlisted in the Australian armed forces on 10 May 1943. (Armstrong, p. 18; Hocking, p. 30. ). He was later posted to Matranka in the Northern Territory which was under "perpertual anticipation" of attack from the Japanese. (Hocking, p. 31) Initially editing and writing a unit newspaper for the Australian army, he was employed as an artist for the army journal Salt. He continued to work in journalism for most of his life. Although he opposed the foundation of the Australian Society of Authors for political reasons in 1963, he later joined the Society and served on its Management Committee. He played an active role in assisting the Gurindji people in the Gurindji strike in the mid to late '60s. Gurindji are a group of Indigenous Australians living in northern Australia 460 km southwest of Katherine in the Northern Territory 's Victoria River The Gurindji Strike (or Wave Hill Walk-Off refers to the walk-off and strike by 200 Gurindji Stockmen, house Servants and their families in August

His most famous work, Power Without Glory, initially published by Hardy himself with the assistance of Communist Party members, was filmed by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) in 1976. Power Without Glory is a 1950 Novel written by Australian writer and Communist Frank Hardy. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly abbreviated to the 'ABC' is Australia's national public broadcaster. Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The novel was a fictionalised version of the life of a Melbourne businessman, John Wren, and was set in the fictitious Melbourne suburb of Carringbush (based on the actual suburb Collingwood). Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 John Wren (3 April 1871 – 26 October 1953 was an Australian businessman Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 Collingwood is an Inner city Suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. In 1950, Hardy was arrested for criminal libel and had to defend the book in a celebrated case shortly after the publication of Power Without Glory. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Hardy detailed the case in his book The Hard Way.

Hardy was a member of the Realist Writers Group, who he represented at the Third World Youth Festival for Peace in Berlin.

Hardy's sister, Mary Hardy was a popular radio and television personality in the 1960s and 1970s in Australia. Mary Hardy ( 1931 - 7 January 1985) was an Australian television and radio presenter actor and comedian The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970.

Frank Hardy died at his home in North Carlton, a suburb of Melbourne, from a heart attack on 28 January 1994 aged 76.

Hardy's granddaughter Marieke Hardy is a writer in Melbourne. Marieke Josephine Hardy (born 26 May, 1976) is an Australian Writer, broadcaster, Television producer and former television

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