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Article: Vale B.A. Santamaria. (Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria)(Editorial)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria was indeed one of the great Australians of this century, and a man of great moral strength. That this is now recognised by all sides in politics Is one of the many ironies of his careen For years he was vilified by Labor and the left, and treated with suspicion and dislike by many in the Coalition parties, especially those who saw themselves as aristocratic conservatives and shared the anti-Catholic sectarianism of yore. The greatest irony of his career is that in his later years there was a kind of intellectual rapprochement between himself and the left, who used to be his greatest opponents. Not that he showed any great flexibility in ...