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3 unusual facts about Douglas Darby


Douglas Darby

He trained at Portsmouth Teachers College before taking a job as steward and galley hand on a P&O liner bound for Australia.

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Instead, having studied at the University of Sydney, he was seconded from primary teaching to the Youth Section of the Federal Department of Labour and Industry to work as a vocational officer.

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By 1970, as the New South Wales President of the Captive Nations Council, Darby was authorised by the Polish-Hungarian World Federation (Australian Branch) to be their Honorary Representative at the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) Conference in Tokyo and by 1973 he helped found the Australia-Free China Society, subsidised by both the Taiwanese Travel Service and the Taiwanese government.



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