Gorgeous George comes to town


Letter from the Dreaming Spires ... High Commissioner to the UK speaks at the Union ... A sprinkling of rapt Young Tories ... Car alarm competing for attention ... Jolly John Kerr told him Betty Windsor was in the clear ... Later rooftop revelries ... Barely Legal reports
The Lady Vanishes


Untitled ... Former executive director of the bar dies ... Babette Smith played a leading role in soothing heated temperaments ... Huge drama over nude painting removed from the bar common room ... Boarding school politics ... Furious letters ... Name calling ... Unsettling events ... TV documentary ... Theodora reports
Police prosecutor in Shakespearean succession drama


I once met ... Joh Bjelke-Petersen


The long and sordid tradition of politicians telling lies ... Like PM Morrison, Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen was a master dissembler ... It was so innate to him that lies were the same as the truth ... Chris Snow remembers meeting the old lizard in 1975