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Both words of wisdom came in 1978 as Cass-Gottlieb prepared to graduate from Sydney Girls High. The first was from pioneering lawyer Dame Roma Mitchell, the second was from High Court chief justice Sir Garfield Barwick.
In the insistence that Edwards and Wolinski placed on pulling apart Dobell’s otherwise unremarkable painting, we see a culture frantically insecure about itself, and needing to define itself within the rigid parameters of history and convention.
Wounded twice, first at Gallipoli and later on the Western Front, the man who is perhaps our most overlooked Prime Minister confided the thought he had been spared for a reason. That purpose, as Paul Hasluck noted upon his death in 1967, was to serve Australia. In that cause, at home and abroad, he admirably succeeded
Jenny Hocking's dogged research uncovered the long-hidden secrets of the Dismissal, and the boys' club protected by the letters' concealment.
Official investigations of suspected Nazi collaborators have long closed. But families are still grappling with the hidden secrets of loved ones, a new book details.