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| Sir Laurence & Lady Penny Street |
He is one of the Shuttle's favourite legal eagles and one of Australia's most respected jurists. At 87 years of age,
Sir Laurence Street has moved into the
uber smart nursing home
Lulworth House in Elizabeth Bay.
Sir Laurence joins a veritable smorgasbord of Sydney's most well known faces including entertainer
Jeanie Little. promoter
Harry M.Miller ,
Dame Leonie Kramer , former NSW premier
Neville Wran and former Prime Minister
Gough Whitlam.
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| Harry Miller * Jeannie Little * Gough Whitlam |
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Sir Laurence Street & Rachel Finch
at a party in 2008 |
Sir Laurence Street was the Chief Justice of the NSW Supreme Court and comes from a distinguished family of lawyers. His father
Sir Kenneth Street was also NSW Chief Justice and his mother
Jessie Street a tireless worker for Aboriginal and women's rights. It was largely her efforts that led to indigenous Australians finally getting a vote in 1967 (at one stage she was called
Red Jessie in the media and a Conservative government refused to re-new her passport whilst she was abroad).
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Nevile Wran (right) with
artist Martin Sharp |
Like Miller, Little , Whitlam and Wran, Sir Laurence was a regular on the social circuits in Sydney and Melbourne before ill health saw him hang up the gold embossed velvet
Gucci pumps he often wore to parties.
Wife
Penny Street is a great pal of
Prince Charles and the pair always dined with Charles on his Australian visits.
Meanwhile
a claim late last year by a former nurse that Lulworth House residents were "under-nourished" seems to have vanished from the ether.
