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Alex Mitchell

Hollywood royalty leads farewell to talkback radio king

Business and political leaders joined family and friends at a funeral service for John Laws. (Flavio Brancaleone/AAP PHOTOS)

Hollywood star Russell Crowe was among the prominent Australians who gathered to farewell esteemed broadcaster John Laws and celebrate his ability to connect with the ordinary person.

Laws, one of Australia's most influential and controversial radio hosts, whose career spanned seven decades, was farewelled at a state funeral after dying peacefully on November 9, aged 90.

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