The Push

John Niddrie was the manager of the Royal George Hotel, which was popular with the "Push". He knew Geoffrey Chandler and Pam Logan by sight.

Niddrie's role in the Bogle-Chandler case came when one of his former employees, Fleming Jacobson, said that he had seen Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler in one of the bars of the Royal George, in either September or October 1962. As this would have indicated a romantic entanglement between Bogle and Chandler long before they were known to have first met, this meeting would have been significant to the investigation.

However, Niddrie, who knew Geoffrey Chandler and Pam Logan by sight, was able to dismiss Jacobson's suggestion.
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His testimony was discredited at the inquest by his former employer, Mr Niddrie, who revealed that Jacobson had been dismissed as an unsatisfactory employee. Mr Niddrie knew Chandler by sight and could confirm that Chandler and Pam Logan had both been to the hotel, but said that he had never seen Dr Bogle or Mrs Chandler there.

The mystery surrounding the deaths and the connections of those involved made it one of Australia’s best-known murder cases. Reporters invaded the Royal George Hotel but the Push in general refused to speak to them. Chandler was grateful to a number of Push people who hid him from the pack...

According to some, including many former members, the Sydney Push was a drunken gang of logorrhoeac poseurs, that no-one could take seriously — in Barry Humphries’ words, `a fraternity of middle-class desperates, journalists, drop-out academics, gamblers and poets manqués, and their doxies’. Feminists of various schools have been keen to say what a lot of sexist bastards they were. Undoubtedly it is all close to the truth. But if the queue to bag them is so long, surely they must have had something going for them? The reason why they are still of more interest than the many other cliques of Bohemian loudmouths that have infested Sydney pubs since the Rum Corps is that they have some claim to a role in bringing about `the Sixties’. If it is pointed out that the Sixties happened all over the world, and could not have been caused by a minute group at the bottom end of the planet, that of course must be admitted; still, certain essential aspects of the Sixties, even overseas, were in part the creation of two late hangers-on of the Push, Richard Neville and Germaine Greer.
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