The Strange, Strange Story of Phillip Wearne: Part Five

Continuing the story of obscure Australian comic book artist Phillip Wearne. Part Five : Wearne's Final Years Wearne’s divorce was taking its toll. The courts had seized his taxation records and banking details and was busily trying to unravel it all. Wearne had built such a complex web that it’s possible that even he didn’t know his true worth, not that his true worth was as impressive as he wanted to believe. The court worked out that he owned two houses, one in Sydney, one in Melbourne, and both were heavily mortgaged. He had recently sold a third property but had yet to disclose what he was set to earn from the sale. In addition to the house sale, Wearne was now stating that his Australian Trade Union Press was insolvent, possibly due to his ASIO surveillance, which had been reported to the relevant ministers of Parliament and then to members of the ALP who would then pass the information onto the unions. Wearne’s accounts vanished and people couldn’t get rid of him