My great-grandfather, Hugh de Largie was a Labor senator in Australia’s first parliament. He followed Prime Minister Billy Hughes out of the Australian Labor Party in the conscription split of 1916.
Great-grandpa was a fierce advocate of the ‘White Australia Policy’. Something, that as a great-granddaughter, I feel incredible shame about.
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