Jim Cairns

James Ford 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.

Further reading

• Paul Ormonde, A Foolish Passionate Man, Penguin, 1981
• Paul Strangio, Keeper of the Faith, Melbourne University Press, 2002
• Jim Cairns, Towards a New Society, Self-published, 1993
• Jim Cairns, The Eagle and the Lotus, Self-published, 1969