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In 1982 Buttrose joined Len Lindon's innovative comedy cabaret group
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with Saroo. There he met Saroo's Indian family, and travelled with Saroo on a rail journey across India, retracing for the first time the journey that Saroo took two and a half decades before as a young child, that ended him in
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memoir, which he ghost-wrote in 2012. He researched and wrote the book between
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Tales of The Popes by Larry
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and badminton, and in 2006 co-founded The
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Republic of Australia, and in 1983 performed a self-devised play,
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writers and others, at the historic Carrington Hotel in
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Dead Famous: Deaths of the Famous and Famous Deaths
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