The campaign to overturn the miscarriage of justice suffered by her great grandmother was the culmination of a lifetime of activism for Deirdre Mason, but she unfortunately did not live long enough to see the mission through.
The English-born Deirdre passed away in a Sydney hospice on 8 October 2017, with her brother Paul and sister Chloë near, and as she held the hand of her wife Jenni Neary.
‘The Science Show’, ABC Radio National, 5 August 2017: Physics professor Peter Mason gave the first lecture at the newly opened Macquarie University in Sydney in 1967. He was also a radio presenter producing award-winning programs for a new radio show on the ABC, The Science Show. But there was a painful family history which was only revealed to his daughters just prior to his death in 1987. Sharon Carleton reports.
Sydney Morning Herald, April 20, 2013 : It was a bizarre plot to murder the British PM - or was it? Two sisters tell Suzy Freeman-Greene why they want justice for their framed forebears.
In 1986, as he was dying of brain cancer, Sydney physicist Peter Mason sat his daughters down to watch a video. It was a dramatised documentary, set in the dark days of World War I, called The Plot to Murder Lloyd George.
