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While intensely loyal to his friends, he was extremely hostile to his enemies, of whom there were many. It was alleged that Walsh had a "little black book" in which a record of his fellow parliamentarians' indiscretions was kept for use in times of "trouble" and "difficulties". Nor was he averse to
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482:Labor Party
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446:Rockhampton
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