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Malcolm Turnbull has delivered a moving tribute to Robert Hughes in the House of Representatives today.
Hughes, writer and art critic, died on August 6, aged 74.
Turnbull’s wife, Lucy, was Hughes’s niece. Hughes’s brother, Tom, the Sydney barrister and a former Liberal member of the House (1963-72), was in the public gallery with his wife during the condolence motion. [Read more…]
This is audio from the memorial service held for the former Prime Minister, Sir John Gorton.
Gorton died on May 19, 2002, at the age of 90.
The first clip features Prime Minister John Howard.
The second clip is from barrister Tom Hughes, who served as Gorton’s Attorney-General from 1969 until 1971. It contains an excoriating attack on former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, the man who resigned as Gorton’s Defence Minister in March 1971, precipitating Gorton’s downfall. [Read more…]