[marshmallow]

He is strongly pro-life, has been attacked by the homosexual lobby for defending traditional Catholic values, and was a close friend and confidante of Australian orthodox Catholic activist B.A. Santamaria - the man largely responsible for keeping Labor out of Government for over twenty years.

That would be more like 10 years wouldn't it?

When I was in Australia in '93-'94, Paul Keating was the Labor Prime Minister.

If memory serves, he was defeated in '96.

[Aussie Dasher]

I'm going back a little further than that.

Bob Santamaria was the man behind the Industrial Groups that fought communist influence in the trade unions in the '40s and '50s. This led to the Great Split in the Labor Party of 1955 and the formation of the Democratic Labor Party. DLP preferences kept Labor out of Government until 1972.

B.A. Santamaria passed away in 1999. His State Funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne was conducted by the then Archbishop of Melbourne, now Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell. It was a grand and moving farewell for a great Catholic warrior. There were thousands outside who couldn't fit in the doors.