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Name	Thomas Henry Rigby
Born	13 April, 1925 Coburg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	21 March, 2011 (aged 85) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Education *	University of Melbourne (student, 1946-1951) University of London (student, 1952-1954)
Occupation or Descriptor *	soldier (1942-1945) Federal, Australia academic (1958-1990) Australian Capital Territory, Australia political scientist (1958-2000) Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Military Service *	World War II (soldier)
Key Organisations *	Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (fellow, 1971-2011) Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies (president, 1975)
Workplaces *	Australian National University (politics) (academic, 1958-1990) Australian National University (Research School of Social Sciences) (academic, 1963-1990)

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