Political commentators, when evaluating B.A. Santamaria’s life, have seldom looked much beyond his epic fight against the communist dominance of Australia’s trade unions and the 1955 Labor Party Split.Noted historian and author Patrick Morgan, who has recently published a selection of B.A. Santamaria’s correspondence,* challenges this view.In a speech he delivered on February 2, 2007, to the National Civic Council’s national conference, he spoke of Mr Santamaria’s ambitious vision for the …
