Her last sojourn on the island was cut short by the Pearl Harbor attack of 1941, when she and many other Australians including Mrs. Ragnar Hyne and Mrs. W. H. Baddeley, wife of the Bishop of Melanesia, were evacuated. The young lawyer Don Dunstan shared chambers with Patricia for a few years from 1952. Soon after her return to Adelaide, Hackett threw herself into amateur theatre.
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