We recently caught up with Pat McNamara, former leader of the National Party in Victoria. It is 25 years since the Port Arthur Massacre and the subsequent world-leading gun control laws that are possibly the best example of bipartisanship in Australian politics. Pat McNamara was instrumental in navigating the new laws through the Victorian Parliament and maintaining National Party support for them in the federal sphere.
On life before politics
I spent 10 years at a boarding school in Melbourne (Xavier College), and after that I did a business studies course.
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