[2] Goldner remained involved in local and international politics and joined the Communist Party of Australia (CPA),[2] marrying fellow member Ted Bacon in 1944.
[6] Goldner, a dressmaker and fashion designer by trade,[2] became involved with the left in her new home where she attended her first International Women's Day meeting the same year she arrived.
[9] Ted and Eva were heavily involved in the CPA as shown by the hundreds of leaflets, pamphlets, typed speeches, and letters from protest, rallies, events, and meetings contained in their personal Archive.
[10] While Bacon insisted that her Communist leanings did not affect her work with other political groups such as the UAW,[6] it is clear that her involvement in the CPA had a negative impact on her reliability in other areas of her life.
Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen was the Premier of Queensland from 8 August 1968 – 1 December 1987 who personally objected to Eva Bacon's political activities and her membership of the Communist Party.
[13] The Women's Liberation Movement's pamphlet ‘Female Sexuality and Education’ was considered to be obscene by Bjelke-Petersen, and was confiscated from the Brisbane offices of Communist Party of Australia by the ‘State Licensing Branch’ of the Queensland Police Department at 5 p.m. on Friday 8 October 1971.
[14] The Union of Australian Women was, and in Victoria remains, a feminist activist organisation that relies on letter writing, petitions, marches and demonstrations to gain its objectives.
[16] Although believed to be a faction of the Communist Party of Australia by the Premier of Queensland at the time, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the Union of Australian Women has always maintained its independence from the CPA.
As Australia did not recognise China at the time, the UAW set about obtaining visas for the visitors and were delayed to the point that Feng and Sukardi could not attend several of their appointed meetings.
[10] The Eva and Ted Bacon collection consists of a wide range of publications, photos and other literature as well as a series of hand-written notes, research and drafted political theses.