Santamaria's warriors Pell, Abbott on a real mission

By Jack Waterford
Updated April 19 2018 - 7:48am, first published September 28 2013 - 3:00am

It was about 60 years ago, when he was a young teenager, that big bruising George Pell first heard the words of B.A. Santamaria in a church hall. It was in about 1954 or 1955, probably, in context, slightly before the Evatt denunciation which led inevitably to the split in the Labor Party.

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