Yes, I eckon many pollies will be relived. I think Clarke & Dawe was
essential viewing for our pollie, just to see who was the victem that week.
It is hard to pick which was his best work, C&D, The Games or his work as
Fred Dagg. Having lived in NZ during the best of his Dagg years, I think
I would have to go for them. I loved his ability to take the piss of
someone, and leaving them wondering if he had or not.
What worries me about his passin, is that he was 3 years younger than me.
On Monday, April 10, 2017, Denise Goodfellow <>
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> I will miss his knife-edge dissection of politicians on Thursday
> evenings. I got to the stage when I was an alderman that I couldn’t watch
> “Yes Minister” as it was too close to the bone. But John and Brian Dawe
> brought back my ability to see the ridiculous side of politics and laugh
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> > Sad to notice that John Clarke, birder and noted satirist, seems to have
> > passed away while hiking in Victoria's Gariwerd NP (a.k.a the Grampians).
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> > John was occasionally seen birding at the WTP. Russell and I met him once
> > ticking a Baillon's Crake.
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> > That's sad, and certainly unexpected.
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