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J.F. Staples

J.F. Staples was a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission.

J.F. Staples reviews 'The Ivanov Trail' by David Marr

July 1984, no. 62 01 July 1984
I sometimes wonder whether David Combe’s detractors have ever read the legend of his sins – the transcript (even as officially bowdlerised) – of his conversation with Ivanov on 4 March 1983. It is upon the fact of this event (but certainly not upon the record of its substance) that Combe is widely charged, not with treachery, but with greed, intolerable ambition, and amazing indiscretion. W ... (read more)