A life in pictures – Graham Richardson

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Graham Richardson poses during a portrait session in 1998.

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Former Labor federal minister Graham Richardson departs after answering questions in his second appearance before the McGurk parliamentary inquiry at NSW State Parliament in 2009. Credit:Edwina Pickles

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Graham Richardson and his wife Cheryl at their Ramsgate home before his election as general secretary of the NSW branch of the Australian Labor Party in September 1976.Credit:Martin James Brannan

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Paul Howes and Graham Richardson confer during the book launch of “Confessions of a Faceless Man” by Howes, in 2010.Credit:Nic Walker

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Graham Richardson departs after appearing before the McGurk parliamentary inquiry at NSW State Parliament in December 2009.Credit:Edwina Pickles

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Graham Richardson at an Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) public inquiry into corrupt conduct involving Michael McGurk in 2010. Credit:Jim Rice

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Graham Richardson with a lie detector for a promotional photograph.

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Graham Richardson (left) and Rene Rivkin during the launch of the latter’s newsletter aboard his boat in 2006.Credit:Michele Mossop

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Graham Richardson (left) and Roy Medich (right) at Tuscany restaurant in Leichhardt. Credit:Fairfax Media

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Former senator Graham Richardson poses for a photograph outside Parliament House. At age 33, he was the youngest senator elected and initially sat on Senate committees on electoral reform, regulations and ordinances, finance and government operations, and estimates in the first term of parliament.

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Graham Richardson at the ALP Conference in Sydney Town Hall in 1994.Credit:Julian Andrews

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Senator Graham Richardson (left) speaks to John Laws at Radio 2UE following his resignation on the morning of March 25, 1994.Credit:Greg White

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Graham Richardson, with his daughter Katie, salutes his standing ovation in June 1994. “For the last month I have undergone an extraordinary bar­rage, arguably the dirtiest barrage yet launched in the Australian Parliament. It tells me a lot about what I must have done, having resigned and still being a target suggests over the past 20-odd years I must have hurt those bastards. If I hurt the bastards, I am proud to have done so, they deserve every bloody bit of it.”Credit:Julian Andrews

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Graham Richardson during the Australian Labor Party conference at Sydney Town Hall in 1992. Credit:Bruce Milton Miller

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Former senator Graham Richardson and former NSW premier Nick Greiner chow down after the annual St George-Souths Charity Shield match press conference held at South Sydney Leagues Club.Credit:Craig Golding

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Former Labor senator Graham Richardson in a promotional photograph in 1996.Credit: Patrick Cummins

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Senator Graham Richardson (left) and Hazel Hawke (right) inspect salination problems on the property of Milbong (near Brisbane) alongside grazier Ian Harsant before launching a 1 billion tree initiative in 1990.Credit:Peter O’Halloran

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Then federal environment minister Graham Richardson takes a walk along Bondi Beach in March 1990. Credit:John Lawrence Atley