“Following the death of radio personality John Laws, it’s important to recognise his famous appearance in a 1968 episode of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo where he played the dishonest conman ‘Honest Jack’ Jamieson, who was illegally selling land blocks of the Waratah National Park, even attempting to sell the Ranger Headquarters building,” recalls Mark Berg of Caringbah South. “I could never look at John Laws in any other way after that.” In which case, it’s probably just as well Mark didn’t catch Laws’ tour de force as Claude Fitzherbert in Nickel Queen (1971).

Allan Gibson’s discovery of “£30 conscience money from an unknown taxpayer” from 1947 (C8), has June Love of East Gresford reflecting that “£30 would have represented around five times the basic wage in 1947. In Australia circa 194

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