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The last giant: Doug Anthony dead at 90
The last giant: Doug Anthony dead at 90
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DOUG ANTHONY: 1929 - 2020
The last giant of the Country and National parties, Doug Anthony, has died, severing one of the country s last remaining links to the Menzies government.
Mr Anthony, the nation s longest-served deputy prime minister who was a key player in the constitutional crisis of 1975 who also took important steps to modernise the then Country Party, died on Sunday aged 90.
Doug Anthony at his Sunnydale property in northern NSW soon after his retirement.
Credit:Peter Morris
His family confirmed in a statement that Mr Anthony died peacefully in the Heritage Lodge aged care home in Murwillumbah on the NSW North Coast which he represented as the member for Richmond between 1957 and 1984.
Former deputy prime minister and Nationals leader Doug Anthony has died at the age of 90. Mr Anthony was leader of the Country Party/National Party for 12 years and deputy prime minister for nine, influencing Coalition policies for much of the 1970s and 1980s. In a statement, Mr Anthony s family said he died peacefully in the Heritage Lodge aged-care home in Murwillumbah, northeast NSW. Although Doug was privileged to serve the people of Australia in high office, he always considered his family to be his greatest legacy and contribution to the world, the family statement said. He was very much a man of the Tweed region, and it is fitting that he should depart this life from within the community that he loved so much.
Always one move ahead: chess drama The Queenâs Gambit tops MPsâ summer binge list
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Read into this what you will, but an orphan with a single-minded drive to dominate the chess world is the summer entertainment of choice for many of our federal politicians.
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The Queenâs Gambit has won its way to the top of the cultural consumption list for MPs including Social Services Minister Anne Ruston, Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie, Liberal MP Katie Allen, Labor frontbencher Andrew Leigh and Greens deputy leader Larissa Waters.