KLPac artistic director honoured with Order of Australia award

KUALA LUMPUR: There was certainly no theatrics when award winning actor-writer-producer-direc­­­­­t­­or Joe Hasham fought hard to hold back his tears at the Australian High Commissioner’s residence.

Honoured with a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) by the Governor-General for his exemplary service to the performing arts, Hasham, who moved to Sydney in 1949 as an 11-month old from Lebanon, could hardly speak as he accepted the award in a solemn ceremony earlier this week.