THE LAST POST MAGAZINE REMEMBRANCE DAY ISSUE – John Olsen feature.

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John Olsen: A Gift to the Nation.by Professor Ross Fitzgerald AMMy dear friend, the great Australian painter John Olsen was, at 77, the oldest artist to win the Archibald Prize.

In 2019, over a long lunch at Catalina restaurant in Rose Bay facing the Sydney Harbour, I was with John and Barry Humphries when they yarned about what might happen to John’s …

ROSS FITZGERALD

In last Saturday’s state election, the Liberal National Party of Queensland has decisively ended the ALP’s nine year run in office.

This means that, in Queensland’s one-house parliament, LNP leader, the MLA for Broadwater on the Gold Coast, David Chrisafulli will be able to form government with a workable majority.

As readers of Pearls & Irritations may remember, on 21 October I predicted an anti-Labor swing in Queensland of up to 10%.

But the Queensland-wide swing of 7.3% is misleading.

The reason that there wasn’t an utter ALP wipe out was that, by …