In November 1916 Deane was appointed private secretary to Prime Minister Billy Hughes . He was secretary to the Australian delegation to the Versailles Conference , for which he was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George ( CMG ) in the 1920 New Year Honours , and to the Australian delegations to the Imperial Conferences of 1921 and 1926 . His relationship with Hughes was dramatised in the 1974 ABC docudrama '' Billy and Percy '' , which won " Best Dramatised Documentary " at the 1975 Logies and the " Golden Reel " prize at the 1974 – 75 Australian Film Institute Awards
1975 Logies
Logie Awards of 1975
Percy Deane