Career
Short was the national secretary of the Federated Ironworkers" Association (FIA), now part of the Australian Workers" Union, from 1951 to 1982.
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Laurie Short
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He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 1971 by John Gorton"s Liberal-Country Party Government, and this was followed in 1980 by his appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia (Association for the Study of Internal Fixation) by Malcolm Fraser.
Politics
He at first supported the idea of communism in Australia, but then rejected communism and then was an important anti-communist union leader.
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Political Party
In the Australian Labor Party