Tom Roberts at the National Gallery of Australia has gone gangbusters and here's why

By Sasha Grishin
Updated April 24 2018 - 8:14pm, first published March 23 2016 - 9:06am

"Betty Blockbuster" was an unfortunate nickname invented by a Canberra-based journalist to describe one aspect of the reign of Betty Churcher as director of the National Gallery of Australia between 1990 and 1997.

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