The Bulletin, August 29, 1978, p. 93, in the “Intelligencer” column.

Bert Kelly, the former Modest Member for Wakefield, South Australia, who injected rare colour into the national parliament from 1958 until his grateful Liberal Party colleagues ousted him after the 1977 redistribution, is writing a book.

Kelly now writes his regular Financial Review column as the Modest Farmer. But he was a persistent thorn in the side of successive governments on rural matters and the vexed question of tariffs.

Front runner among suggested titles for his memoirs is Cows — Sacred and Profane.

One of his favourite saying is that whenever you move a sacred cow you always find a lump of something you don’t like underneath.