Driver, personal assistant and cabinet officer, Alf Stafford is testimony to a strong Indigenous presence in Australian government in the 20th century

Sir Robert Menzies was busy.

So, when the Australian portrait artist William Dargie came to Canberra to paint Australia’s longest-serving prime minister in 1963, Menzies asked his close friend and confidant Alf Stafford to sit in for him.

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