It was 6.30 when the phone rang and dinner had just been served.
‘Which telephone company do you represent?’ I asked.
‘How did you know?’
‘Just a wild guess.’
‘Is that you Mr Barry?’ was the follow-up question.
‘That’s my first name,’ I told her, not bothering to let her know the subtle differences between first names, Christian names, maiden names and surnames.
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Barry Cohen, a former minister in the Hawke government, was a federal Labor MP from 1969 to 1990.
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