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Lloyd Jones

Tributes as Labor stalwart, champion for migrants dies

Long-time Labor senator and former cabinet minister Nick Bolkus has died at the age of 75. (Rob Hutchison/AAP PHOTOS)

Nick Bolkus, Australia's first Greek federal cabinet minister and a champion for immigrants and refugees, has died at the age of 75. 

The long-time Labor senator for South Australia was a minister in the Hawke and Keating governments, first elected in 1980 and only retiring in 2005.

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