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(2022) Large in Stature and Character: Peter McMahon

Obituaries, Political historyBy Jade Cunanan March 21, 2022

16 July 1931 – 13 March 2022

Peter McMahon, champion of garbologists – as he proudly said, local government union leader, NSW Upper House Labor politician, industrial tribunal member, historian, and community activist, had many significant achievements, including improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of employees, and recruiting Paul Keating to work as a young research officer for the Municipal Employees’ Union (MEU) before the budding politician propelled himself, aged 25, into the Federal parliament in 1969.

(2022) Live Like It Matters: Senator Kimberley Kitching

Obituaries, Political historyBy Jade Cunanan March 14, 2022

It is achingly sad that the whip-smart, vivacious, principled, Senator Kimberley Kitching died on Thursday in Melbourne, aged 52, apparently of a sudden heart-attack.

(2021) Will-power, Wisdom, and Whimsy in Canberra

Obituaries, Urban Planning and TransportBy April Salvador October 8, 2021

For fifty-seven years, James (“Jim”) Glen Service, “Mr Canberra”, banker, property expert and company director, was identified with most things commercial and cultural that happened in the national capital. Those who knew him found a tough-minded businessman, conscientious about “giving back”, with a wonderful sense of the absurd.

(2021) Sydney Boom Sydney Bust: Maurie Daly (1939-2021)

Obituaries, Urban Planning and TransportBy Shiela Nunez September 8, 2021

Maurie Daly, geographer, raconteur, family man, academic critic of urban planning follies, gained an international following for the clarity and insightfulness of his analysis of city and place.

(2021) Cardinal Edward Cassidy AC (1924-2021), Australia’s Nuncio to the World

Obituaries, Occasional Essays and Articles, ReligionBy Shiela Nunez May 13, 2021

The presence of members of Jewish, Orthodox Christian, and various Protestant denominations at the funeral indicated that this was no ordinary man. “Even if you cry your eyes out, don’t worry; he was worth every tear,” the Bishop of Wollongong, The Most Rev. Brian Mascord, said in his homily.

(2021) Obituary to John Caldon (1947-2021): The Yorkshireman Who Called Australia Home

Obituaries, Occasional Essays and ArticlesBy Shiela Nunez May 13, 2021

John Richard Caldon, investment banker and entrepreneur, who died of complications of lung cancer on Tuesday 16 February, arguably had the greatest impact on Australia of any Yorkshireman since Captain Cook.

(2020) A Challenge to Empty Minds: Obituary to Owen Harries

Foreign Policy, ObituariesBy Faith Duremdes September 7, 2020

Owen Harries (1930-2020), foreign policy adviser, thinker, gadfly, editor, and advocate of the “national interest” realist tradition, died last week. His influence was profound in Australia and globally. He persuaded, stung, prodded those around him to think.

(2020) Peter James Easson (1926-2020)

Obituaries, SpeechesBy Faith Duremdes August 29, 2020

Our father, who art in heaven, was a complex man – humble, intelligent, self-deprecating (we all got our humour – the Easson wit – from him), proud of his Celtic blood (frugal, sentimental, fiery, brave.)

(2020) Mundey’s Legacy

Obituaries, Urban Planning and TransportBy Jen Calderon August 20, 2020

John Bernard “Jack” Mundey (1929-2000), conservationist, union leader, activist, was an unlikely hero. This article briefly summarises his life, achievements and, finally, reflects on lessons from a life that endured more disappointments than triumphs.

(2020) Irish Migrant was Champion of Rail Workers: Jim Walshe, 1931-2020

Obituaries, Political historyBy Shiela Nunez May 13, 2020

Jim Walshe, rail unionist, Labor activist, superannuation reformer, keen golfer and family man, was born in Ballybunion in County Kerry, Ireland, a resort town known for its picturesque stretch of sand dunes overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, beaches, steep seaside cliffs, ruined castles, golf course, family farms and, in his early years, the rural poverty of Depression-era, newly independent Ireland.

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