Stars from the Nine Network stable going back decades have gathered to farewell John Westacott at an exclusive location just across the harbour from where the TV legend fell off his yacht and died.
Ruminations by Dr. David Branagan, Harold White Fellow, on the life and times of an eminent Geologist, National Library, Canberra, 1999
[This is an edited version of the lecture, which in its original form was tied to a large number of illustrations (photographs, maps cartoons) shown as slides and overheads]
TV colossus David John Leckie died at age 70 on Tuesday following a decade-long battle with illness
Under Kerry Packer and Kerry Stokes, Leckie took the Seven and Nine networks to number one as CEO
Friends knew him as Big Wave Dave and all knew that philanthropist wife Skye wasn t the only love in his life He had another mistress for many years, and unfortunately for dad she came in the shape of a . TV screen