The speaker was straddling a bar stool with his ample buttocks in Melbourne’s John Curtin Hotel, opposite the Trades Hall. He wasn’t so much holding a glass of beer, as strangling it with one hand.
Andrew ClarkSenior writerAndrew Clark is a former editor of The Sun-Herald and Australian Business. He was a correspondent in Europe and North America, a political correspondent in Canberra and has been a journalist for more than 55 years. Email Andrew at aclark@afr.com.au
