Gough Whitlam and Jim Cairns, Leaders & Rivals

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Paul Strangio, Author of Keeper of the Faith, a biography about Australia’s former Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Dr. J.F. Cairns, compares and contrasts the two leading figures of Labor Politics at the time – Gough Whitlam and Jim Cairns.

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