Earl James AM

Earls presentation is an introduction to the life of a fellow surveyor, Adair Macalister Blain, whose life in the Territory spanned the period 1929 to 1949 during which he achieved great professional success and suffered unimaginable adversity.
Blain was a surveyor, but he was also a soldier who spent three years in captivity during WWII.
But his greatest achievement was to become an independent Member of the Federal Parliament and to hold the seat for five consecutive terms.
He was the only independent politician to ever do so.