Richard Neville remembered as charming man

TRIBUTES TO OZ MAGAZINE CO-FOUNDER RICHARD NEVILLE:

"Our wonderful Richard has gone on to his next adventure." - Neville's wife of 36 years, Julie Clark Neville, reportedly posted on Facebook after his death at their northern NSW home

"His ebullience, his mischievous spirit and his capacity to laugh and create laughter accompanied him to the very end of the Yellow Brick Road, along which this charismatic charmer had insouciantly skipped and entertained for more than half a century." - Oz magazine co-founder and longtime friend Richard Walsh

"Those of us privileged to have played against power alongside him will remember the warmest and most generous of friends, a man with a deep moral vision and when it came to the crunch, the courage of his convictions." - Human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson

"Always a thoughtful, incisive, courageous voice. Remembering Richard Neville." - former ABC managing director Mark Scott

"He had such a wonderful mind, he was a very witty man, he could write particularly well, he had great ideas, and he liked to shake the establishment up." - Australian media personality Ita Buttrose.