And so we look like being able to see live performance again in the two biggest cities in Australia: Sydney (which produced Patrick White and Christina Stead) and Melbourne (the birthplace of Barry Humphries and Germaine Greer.) Not only has this been the consequence of the somewhat astonishing rise to the New South Wales premiership of Dominic Perrottet a conservative Catholic who moves like a hurricane, but he has appointed as the head of the Premier’s department that old Riverview boy Michael Coutts-Trotter.
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