Ormonde, Paul

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Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsJournalistsPolitical activistsGenderMaleHistoryPaul Ormonde is a journalist and author who wrote for The Herald and the Catholic Worker. He is a member of the post-Labor split Catholic group which opposed BA Santamaria and the ‘Movement’, later the National Civic Council. Particularly interested in links between political and religious affairs, specifically the Catholic Church and the Australian Labor Party, Ormonde was associated with the Catholic peace movement, PAX, and the anti-Vietnam War movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Ormonde is the author of a number of books including: The Movement, Nelson, 1972; A Foolish Passionate Man, Penguin, 1984 (biography of Jim Cairns); Santamaria: The Politics of Fear, Paul Ormonde Ed.), 2000; and he edited and wrote the last chapter of James Griffin’s Daniel Mannix, Beyond the Myths, Garratt Publishing, 2012.
He completed journalistic training at the Daily Telegraph (Sydney) in the early 1950s before moving to Melbourne where he worked as reporter, sub-editor and feature writer on the Sun Pictorial and The Herald. He was also public relations officer for Radio Australia in the 1960s before returning to newspaper journalism. Much of his political and religious writing appeared in the Catholic Worker, an independent, lay journal, where he part of the editorial committee from 1959 until the journal ceased publication in 1976. He has since written for the Jesuit publication Eureka Street and Online Catholics.
Between 1982 and 1992 he was head of Public Affairs for Carlton and United Breweries. On leaving CUB he set up his own public relations consultancy. Now in semi-retirement, he has continued to write commissioned reviews and commentaries, particularly for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.Search records of this agent

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Pax Conference 1967 - Opening Address by Max Charlesworth

Cairns interviews with Melbourne psychiatrist Dr John Diamond, 8 July 1968 - 12 December 1968, Tape 7

Cairns interviews with Melbourne psychiatrist Dr John Diamond, 8 July 1968 - 12 December 1968, Tape 6

Cairns interviews with Melbourne psychiatrist Dr John Diamond, 8 July 1968 - 12 December 1968, Tape 5

Cairns interviews with Melbourne psychiatrist Dr John Diamond, 8 July 1968 - 12 December 1968, Tape 4

Cairns interviews with Melbourne psychiatrist Dr John Diamond, 8 July 1968 - 12 December 1968, Tape 3

Cairns interviews with Melbourne psychiatrist Dr John Diamond, 8 July 1968 - 12 December 1968, Tape 2

Cairns interviews with Melbourne psychiatrist Dr John Diamond, 8 July 1968 - 12 December 1968, Tape 1

BA Santamaria, East Timor (26/5/1999) on RN

Cairns Four Corners (7/6/1975); Norman Gunston; Cairns & Willesee (10/7/1975) / Cairns & Willesee; Monday Conference (June 1976)

Dr Cairns defence of himself in the Parliament

Bill Landeryou (19/5/1975)

Jim Cairns 11/8/1979

J. F. Cairns December 1976, after return from 'Down to Earth' Festival, Canberra

Lina & Sam (10/11/1974) / Maxine Burgess (14/11/1974), Marie

Alan Hunt (24/5/1978) & Lindsay Thompson 8/5/1979

Norman Gunston & Geoffrey Gleghorn (2)

Frank Crean (2) 27/3/1979

Cairns to Rationalists, July 4th 1970 / J. F. Cairns 16/11/1975

J. F. Cairns 16/11/1975

Glyde Butler May 1975

Professor Burton, Clyde Cameron, Bill Hayden, Moss Cass, Canberra 1974

J. F Cairns 3/6/1974

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[UMA-AC-000000104] Papers of Paul Ormonde

[2015.0043] RESEARCH PAPERS OF PAUL ORMONDE

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[UMA-SRE-20150044] AUDIO RECORDINGS OF AND ABOUT JAMES FORD (JIM) CAIRNS

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Date1931-

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University of Melbourne Archives

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Ormonde, Paul