The way Senator Aubrey McCarthy tells it, when his mother met his father she thought she was “marrying Gatsby”. “My father was a bit of a character, a bit of a playboy,” McCarthy says on the weekend podcast. “He was fairly impressive. He used to fly planes, used to race cars and all of that.” McCarthy explains: “Their first date was in a place called Stonebrook Estate, a big stately home. There was a party on there and my mum was invited, my father? He flew up. So she thought, yeah, I’ve got this in the bag.” But the reality…

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