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Labor’s Grand Emotional Refugee

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June–July 2002, no. 242

Keeper of the Faith: A biography of Jim Cairns by Paul Strangio

MUP, $49.95 hb, 464 pp, 0 522 85002 2

Labor’s Grand Emotional Refugee

by
June–July 2002, no. 242

First, a disclaimer. Since 1975 I’ve had a sneaking affection for Jim Cairns. At that time, I was flirting with various environmental causes – as you do at the age of nine. I circulated some petitions at my primary school calling for the preservation of the Tasmanian south-west from its concrete-crazed Hydroelectricity Commission. I forwarded these to a string of political power-brokers, identified rather shrewdly by their appearances on the ABC news. 

Keeper of the Faith: A biography of Jim Cairns

Keeper of the Faith: A biography of Jim Cairns

by Paul Strangio

MUP, $49.95 hb, 464 pp, 0 522 85002 2

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