LETTERS: Jim Cairns: the real legacy*

Sir,I am deeply concerned at the eulogy given to the late Jim Cairns by Max Teichmann.Like Mr Teichmann I lived through the disastrous anti-Vietnam war movement; but unlike Mr Teichmann I was a vigorous opponent of Jim Cairns and the dishonest anti-war campaign.I believe that Jim Cairns acted deliberately with high intellectual conviction. He did great harm to Australian politics and especially to millions of innocent people in Indo-China.The reference to Mr Bob Santamaria having an understandin…

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