Word: santamaria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Australia's Labor Party is further rent by a Catholic Action group led by a secretive Melbourne lawyer named Bartholomew Santamaria. who is dedicated to fighting Communism in the labor unions. In a land where half the union membership is Catholic, Santamaria's activities have stirred up cries of "clerical intervention." and Australia's Catholic hierarchy no longer actively supports him. But the result has been to split the Catholic vote to Menzies' benefit. Six weeks ago Evatt at last stepped down from party leadership, to be replaced by the more moderate former Immigration Minister Calwell...