Former federal treasurer Jim Cairns’ affair with his private secretary Junie Morosi generated whispering campaigns and rocked the Whitlam government in the 1970s. He denied it and even sued for ...

Shannen Alyce Quan lends a quiet dignity to Junie Morosi, the principal private secretary who had a scandalous love affair with Labor deputy leader Dr Jim Cairns, here depicted over champagne and ...

He fell out with several ministers and forced the Speaker to resign. The Junie Morosi affair embroiled Treasurer Jim Cairns and the loans affair forced the resignation of Minerals and Energy ...

‘Treasurer Jim’ Cairns was hardly a resounding success yet seems to be the role model for the current Treasurer Jim Chalmers, writes Piers Akerman. The earlier “Treasurer Jim” was Jim ...

Cairns became treasurer and deputy leader, only to be embroiled in the Junie Morosi affair after he appointed the attractive young woman to a senior position in his office. Most damaging was the ...

He added that his father recalled that, "sitting in the back of a taxi next to [Cairns's private secretary] Junie Morosi was not the best environment for rational decision making!" But ...

Former Deputy PM Jim Cairns with Junie Morosi at Bredbo, south of Canberra, attending an alternative lifestyle festival on December 26, 1977. The sizeable farm at 72 The Rest is at one of French ...

In the infamous Junie ­Morosi affair, where Whitlam government treasurer Jim Cairns was having an affair with his private secretary in the early 1970s, media justified reporting because it ...

The married Cairns’s very public relationship with a female member of his staff, Junie Morosi, also contributed to the atmosphere of chaos. A prime minister such as Fraser, whose own political ...

Miss Junie Morosi, the central figure in the Morosi affair which has rocked the Federal Government, vehemently denied yesterday "sexual innuendoes" about her relationships with two senior ministers.

One of the scandals that rocked Canberra was reports of an affair between Deputy Prime Minister Jim Carins and his secretary Junie Morosi, pictured. Picture: News Corp Australia But it pales in ...

The media was accused of telling outrageous lies, and Cairns and Morosi took various entities to court for defamation of character. In 1977, Morosi won $17,000 from The Daily Mirror, and in 1978 $ ...