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The last German war secret
It killed tens of thousands of babies, left thousands more horribly deformed.Some midwives deliberately let limbless babies die. Some parents went mad or committed suicide or abandoned their infants to charities or the state. Others resigned themselves to lives of quiet desperation and anonymous heroism.
The drug was thalidomide. It is almost exactly 50 years since a brilliant (although later disgraced) Australian doctor called William McBride alerted the world to the monstrous side-effects its makers failed to uncover before pushing it on the market.
Now another Australian – Melbourne lawyer Peter Gordon – has taken up the thalidomide cause to fight for those whose injured bodies have been worn out by decades of over-use.
Gordon doesn't dodge fights. As a young Footscray Football Club president, he saved the Bulldogs from extinction when the AFL pushed to amalgamate the club with the doomed Fitzroy.
As a gun plaintiff lawyer - representing victims of asbestos, tobacco, silicone breast implants and sexual abuse in the Catholic Church - he took on powerful opponents and mostly won.
When he retired two years ago as head of heavyweight law firm Slater and Gordon to be a consultant - and to improve his tennis game - he told himself he had quit fighting big class actions. He was wrong.
It all changed the day a thalidomide victim he had met by chance asked advice about signing a document. Through him, Gordon met Ken Youdale, an 86-year-old Sydney war hero dedicated to helping thalidomide victims in memory of his daughter Niki, who died from the drug's effects years ago.
Gordon and Youdale struck up a friendship then struck a deal last year for the British distributor of the drug (Diageo, formerly Distillers) to pay $50million in extra compensation to 45 surviving Australian and New Zealand thalidomiders. This followed a similar deal for British victims.
For Gordon, the victory was not the end of a campaign. It was the start of a crusade.
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