Jim Cairns
(1914-2003)
Australian politician
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James Ford Cairns (4 October 1914 – 12 October 2003), 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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4 October 1914 Carlton, Victoria
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| Died |
12 October 2003 (aged 89) Narre Warren East, Australia
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| Zodiac | Libra |
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