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METROFYI 2 THE AGE FRIDAY 24 JANUARY 1997 v- 7 1 1 Obituaries Chronlcloo Birthday Ft Politician was free-trade thinker 141: Neil Diamond, US singer IMC: Helen Morse, Australian actor 1M1: Nastassja Klnskl, Germarvbom actor Aimlvorsarloe 41: Gaius Caesar (Caligula), Roman Emperor from 37, Is murdered 1M7: First Boy Scout troop Is organised by Sir Robert Baden-Powell In England IMS: Krueger Cream Ale, first beer In Mane u.anfr nn eala In Dlfhflut.i. A I aii9, nginvii aaig in tmuiiiiiuiiu, yiiiiiio 4 ThA Uu Cat, I A on Bernard Shaw's Dlav Pvematinn. Vf makes Its Australian debut at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne 1SSS: Death of Sir Winston Churchill, statesman and war-time British PM. 1972: Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi Is'' discovered on Guam after 28 years In the Jungle thinking World War II still on 173: US negotiator Henry Kissinger says Vietnam peace agreement worked out in Paris also means end to fighting in-Laos and Cambodia; Hanoi's De Luc Tho i JB 'I'll I "if A h4k Nail Nil 1 SI SB I 3 ni i II Uy. calls agreement "a tfreat victorv for the ber.

He also appeared as a commentator on the ABC's Late Night Live, the weekly Books and Writing program and in the ABC's monthly, 24 Hours. Synnott died, last month after a long battle with hepatitis C. Anthony Clarke, Opera Australia's public affairs manager and a former arts editor of The Age, said was one of the most astute and knowledgeable writers on the arts in the country. "He had that broad interest in all the arts; they were as much theatre reviews as opera reviews," said Clarke. "There was no segmentation between the arts and life.

There was none of this opera as an elitist art form. Opera was a fix on life, part of our basic experiences. His was the broadest inquiry into opera and the times." Synnott was born in MurwiUumbah, NSW, and educated at Forest Lodge and Marist Brothers Randwick in Sydney. At 15 he left to finish his schooling at a Catholic junior seminary. He was ordained a priest nine years later in 1963 and served as a curate at Clovelly, Rose-bery and Newtown parishes.

The spirit of the age that swept along Pope John XXIII's call for aggiornamento in the Catholic Church, the second Vatican Council's reaching out to the community, the Vietnam war and the power to the people movement led to the formation of Catholics for Peace, one of the seminal anti-war groups of which Richard was a prominent member. He left the priesthood and moved to Melbourne with novelist Joan Dugdale. After a stint teaching at Trinity Grammar they opened the Dekko Bookshop in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, which featured readings and a coffee bar, before they became popular. He was part of a group that set up a housing finance co-operative for low-income earners, the New Earth Co-operative. He worked for the Henderson Poverty Inquiry and joined ABC radio current affairs.

He returned to Sydney in 1985 and worked with Leo Schofield, the Melbourne Festival director. As his hepatitis progressed and he had to work less, he developed his interest in opera and music. Sydney Morning Herald Vietnamese people" IMS: US President Bill Clinton strikes back at Middle East terrorists by freezing', their assets in American banks and moving to outlaw raising money In the US. Curiosities VALERIE YULE (Mount Waverley) issues a1 challenge to Age readers: "In times of stress, remembrance of verse can encourage, console or inspire. What lines of verse have readers found cheering at various times? There Is such a fashionable contempt for rhymes and 'moralising' that it would be interesting to see whether readers can uncover secret likings for scorned couplets.

And it could help some people, to find verse Charles Robert (Bert) Kelly Former Liberal MP Bom: 22 June 1912 Died: Adelaide, 17 January 1997, aged 84 IN CONVENTIONAL political terms, the career of Bert Kelly was of minor consequence. However, his contribution to political and economic life was such that he can be ranked as one of the most influential politicians of his generation. Bert Kelly was born in 1912 into a distinguished farming family that had migrated to South Australia from the Isle of Man in 1832. His father, W. S.

(Stan) Kelly, who exercised great influence on Bert's thinking and conduct as a politician, was appointed by the Bruce-Page Government to the Tariff Board in 1929. Kelly senior saw the tragic consequences of the Scullin Government's policy, espoused in its woefully misguided response to the unemployment of the Depression. In 1958, he won endorsement for the SA Liberal seat of Wakefield and held it until 1977, defeated in preselection (after a redistribution). He was a junior minister in the Holt and Gorton governments. When Bert entered Parliament, anyone who questioned the benefits of protec-.

tionism was seen as politically beyond the pale. To be suspected, then, of entertaining ideas of free trade was to be guilty of the most grievous heresy. But from his father, and his great predecessor in Wakefield, Charles Hawker, Bert well understood the economic follies of protectionism. He also understood the corrupting influence that rent-seeking brings both to those who seek the rents, and those who grant them. Tariffs and import quotas gave much financial gain for those who benefit from them.

That these gains were at the expense of farmers struggling to export produce, as well as Australian consumers generally, gave Bert a strong moral purpose in his long campaign against protectionism and its champion, Sir John McEwen. When sacked by PM Gorton from the ministry, Bert took up his campaign not only in the Parliament and party room, where he had become a respected figure, but in his column, "The Modest Member" in the Australian Financial Review. Bert was a skilled writer and, in the tradi- tion of Steele Rudd and CI. Dennis, he created, from his experience of farming and political life, characters such as Eccles the ivory-tower economist, Fred the farmer next door, and Mavis, the long-suffering politician's wife. They, and the rural imagery Bert used, captivated thousands of readers in all walks of professional and business life.

Those Friday columns came to exert great influence throughout Australia, and Friday became dreaded by the Canberra lobbyists who defended and expanded the tariffs their industries enjoyed. Bert was a master of self-deprecation and self-effacing wit, but underneath the humor was a resolute determination to win this great debate. But few observers would then have thought it possible that the Modest Member would, in time, win the day. He is survived by his wife Lorna and three sons. Ray Evans 1 A'B latMa'HfaT JT HE WAS most definitely a sinner.

He waethe man If wno plagued Elvte'a career, man. He forced FJvls 1 I to become obese and forced him Into some not-' a VA so-flattering artistic decisions. Elvis obviously had the talent and the voice and the looks to become a more rounded artist. He could have played Hamlet instead of always being a beach boy or a racing car driver. Not that there's anything wrong with that He (Parker) wasn't particularly a lovable old rogue, He was a cynical old fraud.

He had a fantastic career from the chickens on the hot plate to his tafer existence In Las Vegas', One hadn't heard from him for many yean after El vis's demise, mtt apparently he still had some claims on the estate. One was always surprised that Elvis took advice that encouraged and cheered others. Ah impulsive verse could help stop an Impulsive suicide even parodies that remind you of the original, or lines that do nothing more than make you laugh, e.g. 'Life Is mostly froth and bubble. Two tnings stand like stone: treacle for 2- from such a fraudster.

He was patently looking after Ehti's not-so better interests. It's all very curious tale and one another's porridge, Salt upon your Oary Daan Muslim prayer tint Prayer times for today, the 14th Ramadan 1417 Hijri: am, pm, pm, pm, 1:10.21 pm. wonders whether it ail been tola- Elvis' instincts were always towards the.teiiure suit world, hut one has to wonwij der. what would have happened If he had had a more forward-thinking and liberal-minded manager. Someone who was more interested in long-term gain, and not just making a lot ot money to tuel Ms gambling naolts.U; Johnny Topper hosts the New and Groovy program on.

Text for today Richard Synnott Opera critic, broadcaster and former Catholic priest Bom: 1939 Died: 29 December 1996, aged 57 RICHARD SYNNOTT was the opera and music writer on the Australian Financial Review for eight years until last Septem Katuo 3HKK ana will present a lounge music event callea Sense-O-Round at the Prince of Wales or) 31 January. He also plays in a band called Ullie and Topper's Look-a-likes onhursday nights at the Old Homestead Inn in North Obituaries are edited by Peter Schumpeter. Phone: (03) 9601 2595. tnztay. spone to tMssa puvce.

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