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Mate of the union: NSW labor's crooked ways

Mark Aarons

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I first met Ian Macdonald, the former senior government minister at the centre of the corruption allegations currently besetting the NSW Labor Party, in mid 1978, soon after he arrived in Sydney from Melbourne. I was then in my last months as a Communist Party member and we quickly became close comrades in left-wing politics, Macdonald organising against the dominant right-wing ALP faction and me as a non-aligned activist. We were close friends for about five years before I started to have serious doubts about Macdonald's character.

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I first met Ian Macdonald, the former senior government minister at the centre of the corruption allegations currently besetting the NSW Labor Party, in mid 1978, soon after he arrived in Sydney from Melbourne. I was then in my last months as a Communist Party member and we quickly became close comrades in left-wing politics, Macdonald organising against the dominant right-wing ALP faction and me as a non-aligned activist. We were close friends for about five years before I started to have serious doubts about Macdonald's character.

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I first met Ian Macdonald, the former senior government minister at the centre of the corruption allegations currently besetting the NSW Labor Party, in mid 1978, soon after he arrived in Sydney from Melbourne. I was then in my last months as a Communist Party member and we quickly became close comrades in left-wing politics, Macdonald organising against the dominant right-wing ALP faction and me as a non-aligned activist. We were close friends for about five years before I started to have serious doubts about Macdonald's character.

Key concepts: Communism, Politics, Character (mathematics), Political science, Government (linguistics), Trade union, Prime minister, Whip (tree)

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