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Dianne Callaghan's avatar

This is a very nice piece thanks Hugh. I see you put to use a couple of the pictures of Dad that I used in his Courier Mail Tribute. I've also pinched the one in your post of you and Dad that I hadn't seen before. All the best, Dianne Callaghan.

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Hugh Lunn's avatar

Lovely to hear from you Dianne and pleased ou liked my story on your Dad. It’s amazing how when I write something on this substack site people turn up!

And now you’re a subscriber! No doubt you are doing well in life because your father was a very very smart man. You’re welcome to that pic of him and me: a nice moment in time. I didn’t see the paper’s tribute and thought he had been overlooked. Which I didn’t want to happen, Hugh

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Peter Spriggins's avatar

Thanks Hugh! Allen certainly seems to have been a master of the 'one liner'. Joh must have been quite dependent on Allen's media skills to get out of many a tricky political issue.

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Hugh Lunn's avatar

Allen saved Joh when he was down and nearly out: then they formed a formidable team.

Hugh

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Sheryl Chambers's avatar

Loved this story which you wrote about Allen Callaghan. The story brought back so memories of Queensland in those decades. Before my husband passed sway we used to watch the ANZAC Day Parade in Brisbane. We loved Allen’s commentary on the ANZAC Day Parade RIP Allen Callaghan .

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Hugh Lunn's avatar

A nice memory of Allen Sheryl -- there must be thousands who share that. It's nice to think the dead are remember for the good they did and that it is now all interred with their bones, as Shakesspear wrote.

Hugh

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Hugh Lunn's avatar

A good comment on the Callaghan story from an editor in London:

"Allen Callaghan - a rare talent who would have made a fortune in Hollywood or Washington DC but who, as a Queenslander down to his bootstraps, would no doubt have considered that a sellout. Hugh brings out that side of his character brilliantly and I loved the gags especially the one about feeding the gerrymander. "

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Maureen Millar's avatar

Brilliant. I remember him well....often.quoting Dylan Thomas. Don't kbow if you got my grandson Jock's wayward orange story on Graham Tucker's cricket ball story

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Hugh Lunn's avatar

Yes Maureen I greatly enjoyed your grandson's story which almost outdid hitting a cricket ball into a passing tram full of people.

NOTE for other readers: the grandson was a star baseball pitcher and he was challenged to throw an orange over a 30-foot high convict-bult wall at our mutual college Gregory Terrace. His throw cleared the wall ... and then the road and footpaths ... and landed among a group of elderly tennis players on a private court! They wondered where it came from.

I replied that I was walking along a Taringa street two years ago when a large green, hard mango fell from the sky and missed my head by a foot. yet there was no mango tree around. It would have killed me if it hit. Locals have speculated that one of the flying foxes must have picked it and ouldn;t carry it all the way home.

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Maureen Millar's avatar

Or it was Jock again...he lives at Herston🤣

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Cackles's avatar

I really enjoyed reading your obit dear Lunndun

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Hugh Lunn's avatar

Don't tell me I've been given another nickname: "Lunndun": where did that come from?

I seem to attract them: must write a Post about it one day.

But then "cackles" is surely a nickname?

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Peter Rasey's avatar

News Headline, "Flo gets the nod, Queensland got sconed"

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Hugh Lunn's avatar

I never thought I'd say this Peter, but you are becoming quite literary!

Hugh

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Peter Rasey's avatar

Must be rubbing off of you.

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Hugh Lunn's avatar

watch out for those "off ofs" Peter -- very American.

Hugh

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Peter Rasey's avatar

Now gosh dang that does sound like little of me at all.

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