Bill Leak 'snatched from the jaws of the PC jackals'

By Jacqueline Maley
Updated March 17 2017 - 8:03pm, first published 7:52pm
Artist, Bill Leak at his Hardy s Bay home. Guide-SMH photo by Marco Del Grande SPECIALX 00000 Photo: Marco Del Grande
Artist, Bill Leak at his Hardy s Bay home. Guide-SMH photo by Marco Del Grande SPECIALX 00000 Photo: Marco Del Grande

Barry Humphries wore purple trousers to Bill Leak's memorial, held on Friday afternoon at the Sydney Town Hall, and attended by prime ministers present and past, editors, television personalities, and several hundred well-wishers who stood waiting in the rear of Druitt Street in the rain, just so they could say goodbye.

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