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

Colin Bettles
Updated January 6 2017 - 12:25pm, first published 12:09pm
Helen Bender on ABC's Q&A program, in October 2015.
Helen Bender on ABC's Q&A program, in October 2015.

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.

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