User:Bjenks

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Bjenks is the username of Western Australian contributor Brian Jenkins whose main interests are in campaigning for human rights and trade justice.

More information can be found in his home-page profile at http://members.iinet.net.au/~jenks/pcv.html

Brian Joseph Jenkins was born at Scarborough, Yorkshire, UK, on 23 June 1940, where his Welsh father was posted prior to serving as an artilleryman and 'Rat of Tobruk' in the North Africa campaign. He has one elder brother, Trefor John. At war's end the family moved to Paddington, London, where both boys attended Senior Street Junior Mixed Primary School (which was renamed The Edward Wilson School in 1951). From 1951 to 1954, Brian boarded at Woolverstone Hall School near Ipswich, Suffolk until the family emigrated to Sydney, Australia, where they arrived on 25 October, 1954.

Subsequently, Brian studied at Homebush Boys' High School, Sydney University, Macquarie University and the University of Western Australia and worked in publishing, advertising, PR and media liaison in Sydney (1960-75) and Perth (1975- ). While resident in Sydney, he associated with the group known as the Sydney Push.

He is currently the Australian national coordinator for the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) (See website http://www.simpol-oz.org/)

He is married to former senator Jean Jenkins. They each have three children from previous marriages and brought all six up as a "Brady bunch" between 1979-90.