Driver to 11 PMs, including Sir Robert Menzies, Alf Stafford was a one-off. But history has overlooked him when gazing at the office of power – until now
When I was first asked if I wanted to write about a little-known Aboriginal man who’d been a personal driver for 11 Australian prime ministers, opened for a cricket team that listed Donald Bradman further down the batting order and who became a lifelong confidant to our longest-serving PM, Robert Menzies, I couldn’t quite believe such a person had existed.
“It’s wonderful recognition for my grandfather and his part in the political life of this country and also his contribution to this city, Canberra. He was a modest man but he would be proud,” Flynn says. All of this is anecdotally wonderful, of course – the stuff of great history and “story”.
In the 1920s, left-handed batsman and leg-break bowler Stafford opened the batting for St George. Bradman was at number three.Photograph: Michelle Flynn/AIATSIS
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