- World Wars, media wars – and Royal family wars
Page from history: bushies go to war
“Total silence befell the gathering as the announcer, in sombre and subdued tones, began to read a message from the Prime Minister advising that ...
- A rattling good tale of a forgotten political assassination
‘A Coup in Canberra: The Political Assassination of an Australian Prime Minister’ by Alex Mitchell
Reviewed by Michael Smith
John Gorton’s literary hero was Ernest Hemingway, who wrote the wartime classic For Whom ...
- Abe Saffron had a little mate at ASIO headquarters
BOOK REVIEW
Abe Saffron, the king of Sydney’s vice rackets, had a long friendship with Dudley Doherty, a top spy with the Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).
Doherty used his accountancy skills ...
- ‘Murder in Melbourne’ a case of stolen identity
BOOK REVIEW
Hasbara and identity theft: a Melbourne case study
By DR DAVID FABER
The dark arts of economy with the truth have long been part of political manipulation. Why take the risk ...
- Teachers on ‘Murder in Melbourne’: wider questions raised
1) BOOK REVIEW
Murder in Melbourne: The untold story of Aiia Maasarwe by Alex Mitchell, 2020
Kevin Bain writes: This little book added important aspects to my awareness of this terrible event, which I ...
- Bishop reviews ‘Murder in Melbourne’
BOOK REVIEW
Murder in Melbourne: The untold story of Aiia Maasarwe by Alex Mitchell, 2020
Bishop George Browning writes: The plight of Palestinians in their homeland was tragically on display in the aftermath of ...
- Robert Tickner’s memoir
BOOK REVIEW
Ten Doors Down by Robert Tickner, published by SCRIBE, Melbourne 2020
Reviewed by ALEX MITCHELL
Robert Tickner, who served in the Hawke and Keating Governments as Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
- Second review of Aiia’s tragic story
David Hickie, former editor-in-chief of the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald, looks beyond the headlines in the coverage of crime
BOOK REVIEW: Murder in Melbourne: The untold story of Aiia Maasarwe by Alex Mitchell ...
- First review of new book on Palestinian Aiia Maasarwe
Struggles for Personal and National Identity
BOOK REVIEW – Murder in Melbourne: The untold story of Aiia Maasarwe by Alex Mitchell (2020)
STUART REES WRITES: In courts of law, defendants appear before ...
- The Weekly Notebook – conservative basket cases
Why conservative parties have become basket cases
A common feature of today’s political environment is the identity crisis in conservative parties that have ruled much of the Western world in the post-war ...
