Early Years
Kavanagh was born into a family with a long connection with the DLP. His maternal grandfather, Bill Barry was a key player in the Australian Labor Party split that saw the creation of the original Democratic Labor Party - a party from which the current DLP has descended although is legally separate - to the extent the party was informally dubbed "Barry Labor" in its infancy.
Read more about this topic: Peter Kavanagh (Australian Politician)
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