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Bert Cremean and the birth of the movement.(anticommunism)

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| June 01, 2007 | Holt, Stephen | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

ANY ACCOUNT of the origins of Bob Santamaria's long involvement in Australian politics, if it is to be at all enlightening, needs to shift the spotlight away from Santamaria himself. The focus instead should be more on the factional warlord--then as now a stock figure in Australian politics--without whose support Santamaria would never have got started in the first place. This vital role was performed, in the early 1940s, by the Victorian Laborite Herbert Michael Cremean. In examining the young Santamaria all roads lead to Cremean.

Bert Cremean did not have a long career--he was only in his forties when he died in 1945--and he never attained national prominence. ...

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