He had been friends at school with John Kerr, a future Governor-General; he had by this stage regular contacts with Laurie Short and Jim McClelland, who would go on to significant careers in ALP politics.
Abandoning the Communist League in 1945, Gee returned to his legal practice; he was called to the Bar in 1947 and became crown prosecutor.
In 1949 he rejoined the Labor Party and stood unsuccessfully in the federal election for the safe Liberal seat of Bradfield.
[2] In later years Gee's political views altered; he became an anti-communist, supporting the Vietnam War and the nationalists in Taiwan.
His publications included a memoir, Comrade Roberts: Recollections of a Trotskyite (2006); a novel, A Maid from Heaven (1966); and a non-fiction work, The Saving of South Vietnam (1972).