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Jack Waterford
Essays & reportage
Unravelling “Australia’s own McCarthy era”
Jack Waterford
30 May 2014
For years the Labor Party clung to the belief that the defection of Vladimir Petrov was orchestrated by the Menzies government to influence the 1954 election. But what really…