Fed: Ethnic affairs advocate dies aged 72

AAP General News (Australia)
04-13-2006
Fed: Ethnic affairs advocate dies aged 72

SYDNEY, April 13 AAP - Australian ethnic affairs advocate Wadim "Bill" Jegorow has died aged 72.

Mr Jegorow died in Sydney yesterday after a lengthy battle with illness.

Polish-born Mr Jegorow was the first chairman of the Ethnic Communities Council (ECC)
of NSW and the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Council of Australia.

The ECC became the Ethnic Affairs Commission of NSW in 1976 and Mr Jegorow became its
deputy chairman in 1980.

Community Relations Commission for a Multicultural NSW chair Stephan Kerkyasharian
said Mr Jegorow, a lawyer who sat on Ashfield Council between 1959 and 1987, was an inspiration.

"His death will close a chapter on the fight for ethnic communities' rights and he
will stand tall in the history of the last several decades of evolution of our society,"

Mr Kerkyasharian said.

"It is a tribute to Bill and those who worked with him throughout those years that
we now see in NSW arguably the most diverse and harmonious society on earth."

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