Kenneth Davidson Gott (22 February 1922 – 12 March 1990)[1] was one of the leading left wing activists in Melbourne in the decades after World War Two.
[2] Along with Stephen Murray-Smith (1922–1988) he was a student leader and member of the university branch of the Communist Party of Australia in the 1940s.
In 1950 he travelled overseas to Prague, to head the International Union of Students weekly news service.
[5] Gott left Czechoslovakia, and was expelled from the Communist Party, disillusioned by the 1956 Russian invasion of Hungary and Khrushchev's revelations of Stalin's terror.
Returning to Australia he took a role as senior adviser and personal assistant to Sir Maurice Mawby of the mining company Rio Tinto.