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The ABC's comedy half-hour.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

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SIR: What an extraordinary piece of political theatre, seeing the performances of Australia's two tallest has-beens being interviewed by Kerry O'Brien on the ABC's 7.30 Report about the Dismissal!

Obsequious O'Brien as Uriah Heep, as Dickens described him: "a red-haired person ... who had hardly any eye-brows, and no eyelashes, and eyes of a red-brown, so unsheltered and unshaded that I remember wondering how he went to sleep". By always being "umble" he worked his way into Mr Wickfield's employ or, as O'Brien admitted, into Mr Whitlam's employ.

Whitlam and Fraser smooching up to each other.

Whitlam leaning forward into the camera with his riveting references to King George V and the House of Lords (in the Robertson pub they talk of little else).

Fraser giving his best performance to date of ...

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