Enduring the fallout from a messy personal saga that knocked the halo clean off his head

Wayne Bennett sits at his dining room table in his house on his farm near Warwick in south-east Queensland wearing Peter Alexander pyjamas – a light blue T-shirt with a small dachshund on the chest matched with long, striped shorts – that hang loosely from his long-limbed frame. On this morning he’s only a month past his 72nd birthday, but he looks fit enough to bench-press the John Deere tractor parked in the adjacent shed. Most…