Jim Cairns
Politician
1914 – 2003
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Who was Jim Cairns?
James Ford "Jim" Cairns, Australian politician, was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s, and was briefly Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam government. He is best remembered as a leader of the movement against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War, for his affair with Junie Morosi and for his later renunciation of conventional politics. He was also an economist, and a prolific writer on economic and social issues, many of them self-published and self-marketed at stalls he ran across Australia after his retirement.
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- Born
- Oct 4, 1914
Carlton - Spouses
- Gwen Robb
(1939 - )
- Gwen Robb
- Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Education
- University of Melbourne
- University of Oxford
- Died
- Oct 12, 2003
Narre Warren East
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on July 23, 2013
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