July 2015 - Come The Revolution

Alex Mitchell’s WEEKLY NOTEBOOK – Peter Smark praised by Vietnamese war hero

Alex Mitchell/July 30, 2015 /1 Comment

The late Australian journalist Peter Smark is recalled with affection and respect by Vietnam’s most honoured spy, Pham Xuan An, whose double life made a major contribution to the NLF’s 1975 victory. Smark was a war correspondent in Saigon in the early 1960s when An worked for Reuters (later he became a senior reporter with…

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Alex Mitchell’s WEEKLY NOTEBOOK – Alan Jones and Rene Rivkin’s Oxford scholarship: for whom?

Alex Mitchell/July 3, 2015 /2 Comments

In May 2002, convicted Sydney stockbroker Rene Rivkin was desperate to obtain bail and avoid serving a weekend detention sentence. His friends rallied and wrote in glowing terms to the judge hoping to persuade him that Rivkin should be spared the shame and humiliation of a weekend at Silverwater Jail. One of those to write…

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Month: July 2015

Alex Mitchell’s WEEKLY NOTEBOOK – Peter Smark praised by Vietnamese war hero

Alex Mitchell’s WEEKLY NOTEBOOK – Alan Jones and Rene Rivkin’s Oxford scholarship: for whom?