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| | Savage Lecture Background - La Trobe University Albury-Wodonga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Michael Joseph, (Mickey) Savage was born in Tatong, a small north-east Victorian farming community in 1872, the seventh and youngest child of struggling Irish migrant selectors, Richard and Johanna Savage. |
 | | In 1907 Savage followed his mate, Paddy Webb, across the Tasman, eventually settling in Auckland. |
 | | Savage became the Partys deputy leader in 1929, and took over the helm in 1933, on the death of Harry Holland, thus becoming Leader of the Opposition. |
| www.latrobe.edu.au /otd/aw/Lectures/MJS/background.html (445 words) |
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