   james ford "jim" cairns (4 october 191412 october 2003), australian politician, was prominent in the labor movement through the 1960s and 1970s, and was briefly deputy prime minister in the whitlam government. he is best remembered as a leader of the movement against australian involvement in the vietnam war, for his affair with junie morosi and for his later renunciation of conventional politics. he was also an economist, and a prolific writer on economic and social issues, many of them self-published and self-marketed at stalls he ran across australia after his retirement. ==early days== james ford cairns was born in carlton, then a working-class suburb of melbourne, the son of a clerk. he grew up on a dairy farm north of sunbury. his father went to the first world war as a lieutenant in the australian imperial forces, but became disillusioned with the war and lost his respect for britain.  he did not return to australia. following the war he essentially deserted his family, and he travelled to africa where he committed suicide after a stay of six or seven years.  cairns later told gough whitlam that he had long believed that his f
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