Jim Cairns’s biographer Paul Ormonde talks of family honour in keeping the father’s desertion secret and speculates on what might have happened had he come back to the family from the war.
What if he returned?
Australian Prime Ministers
1950s new Labor talent takes on party shibboleths
Cairns biographer Paul Strangio contrasts the 1950s new breed of Whitlam and Cairns to the emerging ALP leader Arthur Calwell, who still clings to the party’s old standards. […]
James Ford Cairns (1914 – 2003)
Supported bombing Japan
Cairns’s biographer Paul Ormonde on Jim Cairns’s early career and support for the atomic bombing of Japan. Photograph Rennie Ellis. Related posts: Pride Before the Fall Jim Cairns’s sureness of self enabled biographer Paul Ormonde […]
James Ford Cairns (1914 – 2003)
Jim Cairns as a Leader
Jim Cairns’s biographer Paul Ormonde talks of Cairns as a leader. Related posts: Dr Jim Cairns enters Parliament 10 December 1955 The inspirational anti-Vietnam war figure Jim Cairns enters Parliament in 1955… […]… Pride […]
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