Tuhia he tohumate mō tēnei wāhanga - I whānau ia ki Redfern ki a James Syme me Annie Sheriff. I tipu ake ia i Kogarah ka wehe ia i te kura i te tekau ma wha o ona tau ki te mahi hei kaiako pereki. I te tau 1940 ka hokona e ia he pāmu poaka iti i Moorebank, a ka noho hei hēkeretari mo te Australian Poultry Farmers 'Association. I mahi ia i Papua New Guinea i te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, engari i pangia e ia te mate malaria, a, i tukuna ki te hauora i te 1943. I noho poto ia ki te Pāti Mahi engari i te tau 1938 ka uru atu ia ki te Pāti Communist o Ahitereiria (CPA). I marenatia ia ki te hoa Communist Kathleen Stringer i te 1952; he Communists rongonui raua i nga tau 1950, a i nga tau 1960 me te 1970 ka noho a Syme hei hoa riri kaha mo te Pakanga o Vietnam hei whakaekenga he. He wahine hoki ia, he kaitiaki taiao hoki, i tautoko i nga mana whenua o nga Maori, me te CPA i whakahe ia ki te whakaekenga a te Soviet Union ki Czechoslovakia
i te tau 1968. I nga tau 1970 i arotahi ia ki te tiaki, me te pakanga ki te keri onepu i te awa o Georges. I whakaekehia ia i roto i tona whare i te tau 1976, i kiia e ia na tana mahi kaha ki te rohe. I te tau 1980 i pootihia ia ki te Kaunihera Taone o Liverpool, i mahi ai ia mo nga tau tekau ma rima. I te kaunihera i whai wāhi nui ia ki te whakatū i te rohe whakangahau o Chipping Norton Lake. I mate a Syme i te tau 2013.