Sir James Plimsoll – Man for All Seasons
Speaker(s): Jeremy Hearder Date: 2016-11-28 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm
Sir James Plimsoll – Man for All Seasons
Sir James Plimsoll was a remarkable and most influential Australian diplomat in the post war years from the 1950s to the 1980s. He was renowned for his handling of various complex situations around the world, and his relations with Australian prime ministers Menzies, Gorton, Whitlam and Fraser, and foreign ministers Evatt, Casey, Barwick and Hasluck. [...]