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Phantom politics.(Politics - Jim Cairns was a standard-bearer of the Left in Australian politics)
A number of obituaries of Jim Cairns have appeared, some to remember, some to mourn the man; and to recall an era. Several biographies are in preparation, so it might be better just to wait for them to appear. I don't want to regurgitate the short piece I wrote in Newsweekly--but I do wish to look at the world into which Cairns was born, grew up, and then grew old. Was he an Icarus, fated to be burnt by the sun, or was he a false tsar--an inept provincial Pugachev? Did he actually help bring about change, did he understand these changes and where they might lead; or was he a mere product of circumstance, which projected him for a few short years into being a Hero of Our ...
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