Bruce Haigh is being remembered for his lifelong work standing up for the oppressed, after dying in Wollongong on Good Friday.
Haigh succumbed to cancer at Wollongong Hospital on Good Friday.His family helped to bring him back to Australia from South-East Asia as he battled with cancer
He returned to attend university, then later joined the Department of Foreign Affairs, with postings to Pakistan, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka. Nowhere was this more apparent than during his posting as Second Secretary to South Africa during the oppressive apartheid regime in the 1970s.Haigh befriended a young leader on the rise in anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko and famously helped to smuggle political journalist Donald Woods out of the country, a feat immortalised in the 1987 film Cry Freedom.
"He understood what the winds of politics were doing in the countries he was posted to and he tried to inform his government how the winds of change were sweeping through these countries.Haigh's battle for the underdog continued when he was appointed a member of the Refuge Review Tribunal in 1995.
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