Helen Bender: “did it really have to take losing my dad?”

Colin Bettles
January 7 2017 - 9:30am
The late George Bender and his daughter Helen.
The late George Bender and his daughter Helen.

FLASHBACK to late October 2015 when Helen Bender bust onto Australian television screens in a fit of raw pique, live on ABC’s Q&A program, barely 48-hours after her farming father was buried.

Colin Bettles

Colin Bettles

Canberra Bureau Chief

Has been the Canberra Bureau Chief for Fairfax Agricultural Media since 2010 - survived the hung parliament - former media manager at Western Australian Cricket Association now covering national agricultural and rural issues in federal politics.