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Australian Notes

Australian notes

18 June 2015

1:00 PM

18 June 2015

1:00 PM

It was back in the mists of time but I easily recall the day in September 1961 when I dropped in to the NSW District Court to listen to what promised to be a sensational political trial. It centred on a notorious novel – finally published this week some 54 years later – about the catastrophic Labor Split of the 1950s, written by the famous journalist Alan Reid.

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