The People's Champion, Fred Paterson: Australia's Only Communist Party Member of Parliament

ISBN-10: 0702229598
ISBN-13: 9780702229596
Category: Australia
Pages: 312
Language: English
Published: 1997
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Author: Ross Fitzgerald

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A biography of a radial barrister and Communist Party MLA from 1944 to 1950, the only Communist Party representative in Australia to be elected to any state or federal parliament.

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