Tiani Searancke is welcome aboard, the third of the Searancke brothers to join.

Jason Herbert has joined and is welcome into the union.

Tyson Searancke from Victoria is welcome into this union.

Martin Kinross from Brisbane was a member thru the late seventies and into the eighties, and is welcome back on board.

Lewis Johns from Leichhardt near Ipswich Queensland is eighteen years old, and is welcome aboard.

Daria has a valid email address, so his or her name will appear on the document we intend to submit to the Industrial Commissioner when we apply for re registration.

Martin Searancke says he has a "bit of history," which has never been a reason to debar any person from membership in the past, and he is welcome into this union.

Tommy has provided the necessary details, he too will be on the roll book when we apply for re registration.

Constantine provided no further details, however his is a valid registration since he has a genuine email address.

Nick Carter, welcome aboard Nick wherever you might be.

Les Johns from Brisbane, Les was in the union thru the 1970's and has rejoined.

James Morton from London in the UK, James is the author of the very famous Gangland series of books published by Sphere, and is writing a book about the P&D's.

Jodie Durrant from Great Yarmouth in the UK, Jodie comes from a docks background and her six brothers are all dockers in GY.. her story at http://www.dockersunion.com/vb/showthread.php?t=142.

Luke Hudson from Andamooka in South Australia, Luke is a crane driver at the nearby Olympic Dam mine at Roxby Downs.

Dean Dowden, Dean lives in Newcastle NSW and works for a demolition company, he's welcome aboard.

Belinda Hamilton-Smith is a second generation member, her father John Wlodarczyk was a member murdered in 1975.

Joshua Bennetts is a rigger in the ship building and ship repair industry in New South Wales.

Col was part the nucleus of workers employed in the Brisbane ship building and repair yards that were de unionized in 1993, he stuck with the union thru thick and thin and still occasionally works in the industry.

Tracy lost both hands when a parcel bomb that was addressed to her husband Billy exploded in 1969, she was a stalwart similarly thru thick and thin, after police and government sanctioned coercion, from murderous anti social scab elements, had caused a crisis in membership.

Received from Les Johns 25 September 2008 ...my brother Davey Johns was a member back in the seventies, he passed away last month of cancer.

Dave with his two brothers Gary and Les and their late father Doug, were a familiar sight working on the Brisbane docks during the 1970's, recalling that Dave left the union and started a successful fencing business, whose company built the fencing at several major projects in SE Queensland including the airport upgrade, condolences go out to Les and Gary and to the rest of Dave's family.

Joe passed away suddenly in early 2006, his docks career started in about 1971 when as a fifteen year old street kid he would turn up at the union rooms every morning, along with about two hundred other blokes, to be placed at one of the union respondent work sites, I met him in 1972 when I was doin' the same, he was around sixteen then, and was widely respected as a good and willing worker with an excellent attendance record!!

Joe was "King of the 'Gabba," the Brisbane suburb of Wooloongabba is close to the dry dock at South Brisbane, with Peter's Slip a ship repair facility, and the former Evans Deaken ship yard at Kangaroo Point just down the road.

Painters and Dockers took drinks at the many pubs, bars and taverns in that district which catered to the waterfront and industrial clientele, and it was in that heady environment, where some men naturally stand out from others that Joe, like Napoleon the Great, crowned himself King!!

Received from Shannon Jackson 20 September 2008,  ...do any of the older guys remember my father, Bill “Billy Jack” Jackson, he passed away in 2000, he was loyal to the union and really followed the Touch One Touch All line.

We certainly do remember him Shannon, and our condolences go out to you, your Mum and the rest of Bill's family, he was a widely liked and very well thought of member for many years, he was captain of the dockies cricket team, and played Father Christmas every year at the Christmas party.

Just last week one of Bill's old mates popped up, that was Harry O'Mara who we all called "Harry the Wig" since he wore a rug, Harry is about ninety two and lives in a surfside flat at Burleigh Heads, he and Bill were great mates.

Mike's sister rang in July 2005 and said our former member Micah had passed away.. Micah and I worked together in Newcastle in 1979  when his dad Ernie, who was previously  a union rigger at Cairncross Dock in Brisbane, was Foreman at Corrosion Control a Newcastle marine contracting company, I was sequestered from another job one Saturday in May that year, to go to a CC job on a ship in Newcastle Harbor, Micah was driving the crane my job was to unsling the loads on shore.

Later that day I was off to play football with Wallsend an Australian Rules team in the Hunter Valley league, Mike was going to play Rugby in the local league, so toward lunch time we all wanted get the job done and get along, to that end Ernie's wife and daughter had brought lunch down with them in the car, so I was out on the wharf when along came this car with a beautiful girl about fourteen years old and her Mum.

When we talked on the phone I recalled that Ernie had passed on some years before, and that his brother Alfie who had also been in Newcastle and Brisbane had gone, both were great union men, Ernie was known for his excellent on job acumen and know how, while Alfie was a "dockies dockie," first with a cheerful remark a great host in Newcastle and a great gentleman on the job and everywhere else.