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Prophet Without Honour — A biography of Jim Cairns (1914-2003)
  • Jim Cairns with his father and mother before his father left for the war in 1915
  • Jim Cairns’ grandparents John & Elizabeth Ford who raised Jim throughout most of his childhood
  • Jim Cairns aged about six
  • Jim on ‘Artist’ — the horse he rode to school
  • Jim Cairns, second from right, running for Melbourne Harriers
  • Gwen Cairns as a receptionist at Kenilworth House, South Yarra, in the late 1940s
  • Jim & Gwen when he received his PhD at the University of Melbourne in 1957
  • Jim Cairns helped from hospital by his son Barry after being bashed by gatecrashers in 1969
  • In a moratorium confrontation in September 1970, Superintendent Hickey tells Cairns where the marchers cannot go
  • Jim Cairns in China on a trade mission in 1973
  • Jim Cairns & Gough Whitlam, just before Whitlam sacked Cairns in 1975
  • Jim Cairns with Junie Morosi during a visit to Western Australia in 1976
  • Relaxing at the Berri Confest, April 1979

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