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As with Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, whose club links were forged through his years as a law student at the University of ...

In May 2011, proudly sporting her Carlton scarf, Dame Olivia was pictured with then Melbourne President, the late Jim Stynes. By then, Dame Olivia’s battle with breast cancer was well-known and Stynes himself was continuing to undergo cancer treatment. When her team met Hawthorn in June 1984, she and the Carrolls watched on from the Heatley Stand. THE LATE Dame Olivia Newton-John’s lifelong connection with the Carlton Football Club is thought to have been largely territorial. I can remember one of Percy Jones’s old watering holes as a selection venue.” “In those days, John, Lionel Watts, myself and others fronted to the ground to watch the Carlton players train of a Thursday night and we joined the players for soup in the rooms afterwards. “Olivia’s connection with Carlton was solidified through her lifelong friend Pat Carroll. Pat’s brother John was President of the Blue Ensigns from 1983 to and he was obsessed with Carlton,” Moore recalled.