Abstract
Tom Uren, who has died aged 93, was a battler long before the term was appropriated by John Howard. A product of working-class Sydney, by the time he was elected to the federal House of Representatives as the Labor member for Reid in 1958, Uren had been a labourer in a variety of jobs, a boxer, a prisoner of war, a store manager and a shopkeeper
| Original language | English |
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| Specialist publication | The Guardian |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |