He married Mary Thornton in 1944 . She gave him six children , but both mother and son Gerard died at his birth in 1957 . In 1958 he married Mary Robinson , and two more children followed . Lawler 's family home was destroyed in the 2003 Canberra bushfires
2003 Canberra bushfires
2003 Canberra bushfires
Peter Lawler (public servant)