One of the few survivors of Gough Whitlam’s Camelot, that legendary cultural icon and eminent Australian diplomat, Sir Les Patterson, died on 22 April, aged 81. Spookily, the same day as his manager, Barry Humphries.
Leslie Colin Patterson was born – unsurprisingly – on 1 April 1942, at Taren Point in Sydney’s South.
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