When Pete Steedman blew into Canberra in 1983, the year Bob Hawke’s Labor Party trounced Malcolm Fraser’s Liberals, no one had seen a member of parliament quite like him.

He wore a leather jacket and jeans, rode a 1949 Vincent motorbike, drove a blazing red Ford Galaxie convertible and filled the air with language that would make a wharfie blush.

Steedman........

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