- 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 ...
- James Cook under scrutiny
Why Captain Cook is lionised in London and on the nose in Australia … Magnetic Island revisited … Joe Hockey’s “US mateship” stupidity … NSW drought goes from tragedy to ...