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Millionplus Australian real estate for saleMore than 30 years after his dismissal from office, ‘The Big Fella' was little more than a historical footnote, a near-forgotten figure. But to the 18-year-old Paul Keating, he was a living legend, a man still worth knowing.
A self-taught self-improver of the old school, Jack Lang worked his way up from a paperboy and horse-bus driver to lower-middle-class respectability as an auctioneer and real-estate agent. Elected premier of New South Wales in 1925, he introduced widows' pensions and workers' compensation, earning the undying enmity of the Establishment...
