A History (1981). In this he substantially completed a manuscript commenced by historian Brian Fitzpatrick (1905–1965). Cahill has since maintained a close relationship with Australian maritime trade unions. As a classroom teacher, Cahill was a prolific contributor to education debate via contributions to non-academic publications, particularly Education, journal of the NSW Teachers Federation. In March 1981, one of these contributions was the controversial subject of talkback-radio comment and questioning in the Legislative Council (NSW). A collection of his writings on education was published as Synthesis and Hope by the Australian Education Network in 1993. Between 2001 and its final issue in December 2006, Cahill was a regular contributor to, and Picket Line Correspondent for, the internationally acclaimed Sydney based labour movement online journal Workers Online. With long-time colleague Terry Irving (1938– ), he was co-author of Radical Sydney: Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes (UNSW Press, 2010), and is a proponent of radical history. In 2013 Cahill was awarded a PhD by the University of Wollongong for his dissertation on the life and times of controversial Australian left-wing journalist and intellectual Rupert Lockwood (1908–1997), a key figure in the Petrov Affair and the ensuing Royal Commission on Espionage (1954–1955). In 2014 this dissertation was awarded the prestigious 'Jim Hagan Memorial Prize' at the University of Wollongong. This prize is awarded to the PhD candidate "who has received the highest recommendation from one or both assessors in the previous year". Family life Cahill was married to the late Pamela Cahill (1948–2015), high school English and drama teacher. Their children are political economist Damien Cahill, sociologist Erin Cahill and poet Tim Cahill. Bibliography Cahill, Rowan, 'A Conscription Story, 1965–1969', The Hummer, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 17–22. Cahill, Rowan, "Joining the Dots: C/58/63", in Meredith Burgmann (editor), Dirty Secrets: Our ASIO Files, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2014, pp. 159–170. Cahill, Rowan, '"Never Neutral": on Labour history/radical history', Illawarra Unity, Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2010, pp. 37–48. Cahill, Rowan, Notes on the New Left in Australia, Sydney: Australian Marxist Research Foundation, 1969. Cahill, Rowan, Picket Line Dispatches: From the Joy Manufacturing Mining Dispute, 2000, Bowral, N.S.W., Bull Ant Press, 2002. No ISBN Cahill, Rowan, " Rupert Lockwood (1908–1997): Journalist, Communist, Intellectual", Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, 2013. Cahill, Rowan, Sea Change : An Essay in Maritime Labour History, Bowral, N.S.W., 1998. No ISBN Cahill, Rowan, 'Security Intelligence and