Former Labor minister Tom Uren dies on Australia Day

By Don Woolford
Updated January 26 2015 - 5:51pm, first published 1:00pm
Portrait of Tom Uren with his Archibald Prize portrait, and the artist who painted the work, Mirra Whale. Picture: DALLAS KILPONEN
Portrait of Tom Uren with his Archibald Prize portrait, and the artist who painted the work, Mirra Whale. Picture: DALLAS KILPONEN

Tom Uren’s politics of peaceful revolution were moulded by trauma - the depression and years as a Japanese prisoner of war.

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