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B. A. Santamaria
Santamaria, c. 1950s
Born	Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria (1915-08-14)14 August 1915 Brunswick, Victoria, Australia^[1]
Died	25 February 1998(1998-02-25) (aged 82)^[1] Kew, Victoria, Australia^[1]
Burial place	Bundoora Cemetery^[2]
Nationality	Italian Australian
Citizenship	British subject (until 1949) Australian
Alma mater	University of Melbourne
Political party	Democratic Labour
Children	8

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Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria (14 August 1915 – 25 February 1998), usually known as B. A. Santamaria or Bob Santamaria and sometimes writing under the pseudonym John Williams,^[3]^: 323 was an Australian Roman Catholic anti-communist political activist and journalist. He was a guiding influence in the founding of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP), the party that split from the Labor Party (ALP) in the 1950s.

^ ^a ^b ^c Fitzgerald, Ross (8 August 2015). "Santamaria: A Most Unusual Man — portrait of a political powerbroker". The Australian.
^ "Read the first chapter of Santamaria". mupublishing.tumblr.com. Melbourne University Press.
^ Tregenza, Ian (April 2021). "The "Servile State" Down Under: Hilaire Belloc and Australian Political Thought, 1912-1953". Journal of the History of Ideas. 82 (2): 305–327.