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The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.
Colleen McCullough
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Colleen McCullough
Age: 77 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 1
Died: 2015
Died: January 29
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Colleen Margaretta McCullough
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Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.
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How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.
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