Tony Abbott should prove he didn't have an affair with Credlin
I think I can smell a bit of 'get square' as the driving force of Savva's book.
PM Malcolm Turnbull’s secret brains trust are his new team but they’re old hands in politics
HE DROVE Malcolm Fraser’s getaway car, a white Ford Fairlane, from Government House on the day of Gough Whitlam’s dismissal, and once patted Margaret Thatcher’s bottom.
Vincent Woolcock, 75 next January, is one of the familiar old faces in Malcolm Turnbull’s office, happy to help out when required in an office that blends the experience of Liberal Party elders Tony Nutt and Arthur Sinodinos with young guns including James McGrath, who once worked for British Conservative Boris Johnson, and lawyer Sally Cray, tipped to become Mr Turnbull’s personal private secretary.
Once described as the Forrest Gump of Australian politics, the cameo appearance of the 75-year-old advance team member was regarded as sign that order had been restored to the Liberal Party.
Mr Woolcock represents a thread of history that goes all the way back to Malcolm Fraser, John Howard, Andrew Peacock, John Hewson and Peter Costello.
Married to political columnist Niki Savva, a critic of the Abbott administration whom Peta Credlin campaigned to have sacked from The Australian newspaper, Mr Woolcock famously patted Mrs Thatcher’s bottom in 1977.
After finding himself in the Prime Minister’s suite at the Savoy Hotel he had a jocular exchange with Mrs Thatcher, then opposition leader, before patting her on the bottom.
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