John Button [SEP] cause of death
professorial fellow at Monash University. His son, James, is a prominent journalist.
Death.
John Button died on 8 April 2008 from pancreatic cancer.
Bibliography.
- Button, John (1994), "Flying the kite: Travels of an Australian politician", Sydney: Random House. .
- Button, John (1996), "On the loose", Melbourne: Text Publishing. .
- Button, John (1998), "As it happened", Melbourne: Text
John Button (campaigner)
John Button (born 9 February 1944 in Liverpool, England) is a Western Australian man who was the victim of a significant miscarriage of justice. Button was wrongfully convicted of the manslaughter, by vehicle impact, of his girlfriend, Rosemary Anderson, in 1963.
Vindication.
Several appeals to courts or for ministerial intervention were unsuccessful. In 1998, a Western Australian journalist, Estelle Blackburn, advanced the cause of Button's vindication through her book "Broken Lives". Following the book