sentence where Ellis quoted politician Rodney Cavalier as having said, "Abbott and Costello...they're both in the Right wing of the Labour [sic] Party till the one woman fucked both of them and married one of them and inducted them into the Young Liberals". The publisher, Random House, accepted that the disputed content was a falsehood and the book was removed from sale. ACT Supreme Court Justice Higgins awarded the two politicians and their wives a total of $277,000 damages. A new edition of the book was published three months later which omitted the defamatory passage. In 1998 Penguin Books Australia published Ellis's First Abolish the Customer – 202 Arguments Against Economic Rationalism, then Ellis's The Capitalism Delusion – How Global Economics Wrecked Everything and What To Do About It in 2009, One Hundred Days of Summer in 2010, and The Ellis Laws in 2014. PlaysThe Legend of King O'Malley (1970) with Michael BoddyBig Brother Dragon (1971) with Michael BoddyDuke of Edinburgh Assassinated or The Vindication of Henry Parkes (1971) with Dick HallThe Francis James Dossier (1973) – later The James Dossier (1975) – musical about Francis JamesWhitlam Days (1975)Down Under (1976) with Anne BrooksbankA Very Good Year (1980)Man, the musical (1990s) book and lyrics with Denny Lawrence, music by Chris NealA Local Man: A Play about Ben Chifley (2004) with Robin McLachlanShakespeare in Italy (2012) with Denny LawrenceIntimate Strangers (unproduced) with Denny Lawrence ScreenplaysNewsfront (1978) with Anne BrooksbankFatty Finn (1980)Maybe This Time (1980) with Anne BrooksbankGoodbye Paradise (1983) with Denny LawrenceMan of Flowers (1983) with Paul CoxThe Winds of Jarrah (1983)My First Wife (1984) with Paul CoxUnfinished Business (1985) – also directedTop Kid (1985) (TV) with John HepworthThe Paper Boy (1985) (TV) with John HepworthCactus (1986) with Paul CoxThe Gillies Republic (1986) (TV)Bullseye (1987)Perhaps Love (1987) (TV)True Believers (1988) (TV)Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1988) – also directedGillies and Company (1992) (TV)Dreaming of Lords (1993) with Ernie Dingo – also directedThe Nostradamus Kid (1993) – also directedEbbtide (1994)Wildside (1998) Episode 24Bastards from the Bush, A Journey with Bob Ellis and Les Murray (1998) – documentaryInfamous Victory: Ben Chifley's Battle for Coal (2008) – documentary Unmade screenplaysThe Road to Gundagai (1980) – vehicle for Bert Newton and Gerard Kennedy as soldiers on latrine duty during the bombing of Darwin comedy script about radio actors in the 1940s (circa 1980) adaptation of The Sentimental Bloke for director Maurice Murphy starring