Evonne Goolagong Cawley comes face to face with her past, and future in actor Lila McGuire
Sam Mostyn and her daughter Lotte Beckett pictured at the opening of a dinosaur exhibition in 2008Credit: Sun Herald
But we weren’t aware the GG’s keen interest in the play was personal – until now.
Mostyn’s daughter, actor , is a performer in the play, selected after a rigorous audition process for the show, which chronicles Gillard’s life and times, culminating with her famous “I Will Not” feminist cris de coeur in the House of Representatives.
After the opening night of the return season at the Arts Centre, Melbourne on Thursday night, Beckett took to social media to thank “beautiful friends, brilliant agents, iconic mentors and wonderful parents”.
“When I was little I used to dress up in red lipstick to go and see Sydney Theatre Company shows, and now I get to dance (literally) on the Playhouse stage every night. I get nervous before I go on, and then when I’m out there everything feels calm and right,” Beckett posted on Instagram.
The governor-general told us: “Simeon and I have not missed an opening night of our daughter’s acting career. It was a special night with an astonishing performance by Justine Clarke, and we were so proud to see Lotte’s wonderful debut with STC.”
A major shifting of the tectonic plates that make up the earth’s media-legal-defamation-judicial crust: MinterEllison partner Peter Bartlett is retiring today.
Well, sort of.
Bartlett who has been a partner at Minters for a record-breaking 51 years, will take up a new advisory role at the firm, becoming a “partner emeritus”.
Peter Bartlett is retiring after 51 years as a partner. Credit: Eamon Gallagher
“I will be mentoring and assisting the younger partners, especially in the media area,” Bartlett, 77, told this column, which has made use of his pre-publication advice on numerous occasions.
“I will be keeping an eye on the strategic decisions on all the files that I have been very active with, including Ben Roberts-Smith.”
Former soldier Roberts-Smith, who lost his appeal to the Full Court of the Federal Court against a landmark Federal Court ruling that he had committed war crimes, has sought special leave to appeal to the High Court. The court is considering the matter.
As we reported last year, Bartlett has five children and 12 grandchildren, and his family has been encouraging him to retire for 15 years.
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He has worked on some of the biggest legal cases in Australian history, involving , , , , , , , Dr Geoffrey Edelsten and Roger Rogerson. He also acted for the widow of Donald McKay in the special inquiry into McKay’s murder.
He was admitted to practice in 1973, and in 1974 was made a partner at the law firm that is now MinterEllison, where he has worked with some 19 editors of The Age.
Bartlett will continue to be chair of the membership committee of the International Bar Association, so there will be an opportunity to partake in a rigorous international calendar of conferences and events.
“I have had an enjoyable career being challenged by some of the best lawyers in the country and have acted in some of the largest media-related cases this country has ever seen, and now as maybe Gough Whitlam said, ‘It’s time … to slow down.’”
