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Clive of Australia

James’ success traded on one of Australia’s ‘jack is as good as his master’ attitude that abhors snobs and bores in all social stratas.

The life of Clive James sums up what Australia once was and what it has now become.

James, like his fellow expatriates Germaine Greer, Robert Hughes, and Barry Humphries, was once dimly cast in this country in the role of the tall poppy whose talents and ambitions exceeded the boundaries of an insular and provincial society.

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