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Beazley was active in the Labor Party, and the elegance of his writings and the eloquence of his speeches marked him out as a rising star. He served as vice president of the State School
Teachers' Union and as a member of the State Executive of the Party.
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to pay for the party's election campaign. He retired from politics in 1977. At the time of his death he was the last parliamentary survivor of the
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and harboured lifelong regret that he failed to help avert the split when he felt it had been in his power to do so. During the leadership of
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government, as well as the earliest surviving member of the
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His memoirs were published posthumously in
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who himself had a distinguished career as a Labor politician and party leader. The
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