True to his socialist beliefs
The Age By IVAN MILTON and KAREN LARGE October 28, 2009
PETER Milton, an ALP activist for more than 60 years, who served in the Federal Parliament as the member for La Trobe in Victoria for 10 years from 1980, has died of cancer at home in Northcote. He was 80.
An ardent opponent of uranium mining, he and colleagues John Scott and Lewis Kent caused an uproar in parliament (and within the ALP) in 1986 when they walked out on Paul Keating’s budget speech when the treasurer announced the the government’s decision to resume uranium sales to France.
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