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Barry Humphries, aka Dame Edna and Sir Les Patterson, has always been a hard man to pin down, as artist Louise Hearman discovered in the run-up to winning the Archibald Prize yesterday.“He’s a man with a truly fugitive face,” Hearman (pictured) said at the Art Gallery of NSW.
'Foster is a therapist in a psychology practice who assists police and fire services in the profiling of arsonists. They call her the “Fire Lady”, and she has a good strike rate of identifying fire-setters until her own office is set alight and she takes a step back from police work. ...'