It was the second session of the 27th parliament, 3 March 1970. The House was sitting for the first time since John Gorton had been re-elected as Prime Minister. On the third day of the session I asked the Minister for External Territories, Charles Barnes, affectionately known as ‘Seff’, the following question.
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Barry Cohen was a federal Labor MP from 1969 to 1990 and a minister in the Hawke Labor government.
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