Later Life
His later life in his native land was characterized by frustration at being unable to find appropriate employment in government service or academia. This failure was at least partly the consequence of his increasingly ultra-conservative views, exemplified by his involvement with the Australian League of Rights during the 1950s and 1960s in particular, and his continued public support for the White Australia Policy long after this doctrine had ceased to be part of the Australian party-political mainstream.
In a letter in The Courier-Mail (18 May 1965) on Australian clergy's attitude to the Vietnam War he said 'I am not a practising Christian - I am sorry for it...I regret that I have not the gift of faith'.
He died on 15 April 1985 in the Brisbane suburb of Oxley, Queensland and was survived by his wife and six children. Although he had been married in a Church of England service, he was brought up Catholic and was buried with Catholic rites.
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