Jim Cairns' crowning moment: the Vietnam Moratorium Rally, Melbourne, 1970
(photographer unknown)

Profile:

• Born Carlton, Vic., 4 October 1914
• Educated at state schools
  
• Melbourne University (MComm)
  
• Oxford University (PhD)
  
• Police Officer
  
• University Lecturer
  
• 1955-69 ALP MHR for Yarra
  
• 1969-77 ALP MHR for Lalor
  
• Minister for Overseas Trade (19 December 1972 - 11 December 1974)
  
• Minister for Secondary Industry (19 December 1972 - 9 October 1973)
  
• Treasurer (11 December 1974 - 6 June 1975)
  
• Deputy Prime Minister (12 June 1974 - 2 July 1975)
  
• Minister for Environment (6 June 1975 - 2 July 1975)
• Died Hawthorn, Vic., 12 October 2003

Wikipedia
Jim Cairns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cairns

Evatt Foundation website
Tom Uren
Eulogy for Jim Cairns, 17 October 2003
http://evatt.labor.net.au/publications/papers/115.html

ABC Radio: Sunday Nights with John Cleary, 15/09/2002
Keeper of the Faith: Jim Cairns Speaks Out
http://www.abc.net.au/sundaynights/stories/s677179.htm

Melbourne Indymedia
Jim Cairns on revolution
http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2003/10/56189.php

World Socialist Web Site
Nick Beams
The rise and decline of an Australian Labor reformist
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/oct2003/cair-o14.shtml

AustralianPolitics.com
Jim Cairns, Conscience Of Labor, Dies, 89
http://www.australianpolitics.com/news/2003/10/03-10-12a.shtml

Strangio, Paul
Keeper Of The Faith
(Melbourne University Press, 2002)