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Tim Fischer signs off

Tim Fischer signs off after final spell at Holy See

AN AUDIENCE with the Pope has wrapped up Tim Fischer’s posting as Australia’s first Rome-based ambassador to the Vatican and ended one of the most remarkable careers in Australian public life. 

The former army conscript and farmer was not the first politician to lead his party nor the first to reach the lofty post of deputy prime minister, but he was certainly the first to do so with an autistic disorder. (This article first appeared in The Australian)

Link to article: http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/tim-fischer-signs-off-after-final-spell.html

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