David Harold Tribe
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Tribe, David Harold (1931– )
Tribe is an Australian-born secularist and polymath writer. From 1955 to 1972, chiefly in England, he was a freelance journalist, author, poet, editor, critic, lecturer, Hyde Park orator, and public relations consultant.
He was an executive of the United Kingdom National Council for Civil Liberties (1961–1972), chairman of Humanist Group Action (1961–1964), and the first and only Australian president of the National Secular Society (1968–1972). He edited Freethinker (1966), returned to Australia in 1972, and has been a philosopher of freethought in relation to education ethics, law reform, and libertarianism. He is an honorary associate of the New Zealand Association of Rationalists and Humanists. Reminiscing about the 1960s, Tribe has recalled that remarkable progress was achieved so far as reforms involving “abortion, censorship, contraception, suicide, adoption, penology, feminism, sex education, and voluntary euthanasia.”
Tribe is author of Why We Are Here? (1965); 100 Years of Free Thought (1967), in which he takes up Owenism, Chartism, Holyoake, secularism, Paine, and international movements; Nucleoethics: Ethics in Modern Society (1972); and The Rise of the Mediocracy (1976). He has written on the subject of religion for The Raven, an anarchist quarterly. In 1995, Tribe became an Honorary Associate of the Rationalist Press Association.
