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Jim McClelland.(Disagreeable Portraits)(Biography)
JIM MCCLELLAND was born on June 3, 1915, and died on January 18, 1999. A full account of his life, not unskewed by bias, is contained in his autobiography, Stirring the Possum.
It is a typical enough rags-to-riches tale. From a working-class background in Melbourne, he rose to be an affluent Sydney solicitor, with a fashionable home in Point Piper, and eventually became a minister of state in the last of Mr Whitlam's cabinets. His career in politics was terminated when the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, one of his oldest friends, dismissed Mr Whitlam.
He then reverted to legal practice, and eventually ended up by being appointed by another old friend, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Jim McClelland.(Disagreeable Portraits)(Biography)