Dominic Bernard Syme (28 October 1921 – 15 April 2013) was an Australian local politician, activist and prominent communist in New South Wales.
[1] He grew up in Kogarah and attended the Marist Brothers school, before leaving at age 14 to work as an apprentice bricklayer in order to help his family during the Depression years.
He served in Papua New Guinea during World War II, but he contracted malaria and was discharged on medical grounds in 1943.
In 1952, he married fellow communist Kathleen Elsie Stringer,[1][3] and adopted her three children by a previous marriage, Robyn, Wendy and Lynette "Lyn" Syme.
He was also a feminist and conservationist who supported aboriginal land rights, and in common with the CPA he opposed the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.