Jim Cairns Politician

James Ford "Jim" Cairns (4 October 1914 – 12 October 2003), Australian politician, was prominent in the Labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s, and was briefly Deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam government. He is best remembered as a leader of the movement against Australian involvement in the Vietnam War, for his affair with Junie Morosi and for his later renunciation of conventional politics. He was also an economist, and a prolific writer on economic and social issues, many of them self-published and self-marketed at stalls he ran across Australia after his retirement.

Personal facts

Birth date	October 04, 1914
Birth place	Carlton Victoria
Date of death	October 12, 2003
Place of death	Narre Warren East Victoria
Education	University of Melbourne