This loveable,exasperating man won’t rest in peace, says David Marr. He is portion of the Australian mythology, and to be read and talked approximately whenever we try to understand what was going on for the past 40 years[br]The Cassandra of Palm Beach is dead. It’s a wonder he lived so long. Bob Ellis battered his body for decades and final July announced,in his usual mournful prose, that he would be dead within weeks.
That he couldn’t even predict his own his death provoked much affectionate laughter and the relief of his friends, or his readers and even his adversaries. We thought it was business as usual for Bob. We hoped for a rerun this year of the merry campaign that cut Bronwyn Bishop down to size over 20 years ago with the slogan We shall fight her on the beaches.”
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Source: theguardian.com