Ian Rintoul

Ian Rintoul is an Australian political activist and Sydney resident, best known in Australia as a refugee advocate, and as spokesman for the Refugee Action [Coalition Sydney].
He was a longtime member of the International Socialist [Organisation (Australia)|International Socialist Organisation], but was one of a large portion of the membership who left in 2003 around the issue of that group's involvement in the Socialist [Alliance (Australia)|Socialist Alliance]. He went on to be a founding member of the organisation Solidarity in Sydney, which merged with two other groups in 2008 to form a new organisation also named Solidarity.