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Mr Farley, who had suffered a brain aneurism on Boxing Day, died in a fall from a wheelchair recently. He was 53... The secular funeral service at St Brigid's Church, Marrickville, was attended by NSW Premier Morris Iemma, a dozen Labor members of federal and state parliaments led by the deputy
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