Running the Show
B.a. Santamaria Selected Documents 1939-1996
$69.98
- Hardcover
604 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2008
Summary
Running the Show reveals new material on matters which are still the subject of controversy today.
B.A. (Bob) Santamaria was perhaps the most controversial figure in recent Australian politics. An anti-Communist and devout Catholic, he was also one of the most prolific writers in Australia’s history and a strong campaigner for social justice, and his impact on this country’s social conscience was profound.
In the 1940s he founded the Movement in Australia, an anti-Communist or…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522854978 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522854974 |
| Author: | Patrick Morgan |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | The Miegunyah Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 604 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2008 |
| Weight: | 1.11kg |
| Dimensions: | 42mm x 163mm x 242mm |
Patrick Morgan
B.A. (Bob) Santamaria (1915-1998) was employed for his whole working life of six decades by four organisations- Catholic Action, the ‘Movement’ to oppose Communist union influence, the National Catholic Rural Movement, and the National Civic Council. He was educated at St Joseph’s and St Kevin’s Christian Brothers Colleges, and at the University of Melbourne. In 1939 he married Helen Power; they had eight children (five daughters and three sons) and lived their married life in the Melbourne suburbs of North Balwyn and Kew, with a holiday house at Mornington. His wife Helen died in 1980, and he married Mrs Dorothy Jensen, his long-time secretary, in 1983. He died on 25 February 1998 at the age of eighty-two and was given a State Funeral.
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