Chris Grosz
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Truganini & George Augustus Robinson
By 1829, Truganini was running out of options. Her mother had been stabbed to death by a sailor, her uncle shot by a soldier, her mother-in...
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Gough Whitlam & Enoch Powell
At the 1938 ceremony for the conferring of degrees in the Faculties of Arts and Law at the University of Sydney, the address was given by...
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George Lazenby & Cubby Broccoli
The railway worker’s son from Goulburn had done pretty well for himself since arriving in London in 1964. Within three years, the...
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Fred Schepisi & Vladimir Putin
As Fred Schepisi was whisked along the Rublyovka highway, past luxury car showrooms and Gucci boutiques, he reflected on how much Moscow...
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Gareth Evans & Ali Alatas
One was a career diplomat, the very model of discretion, patience and good manners. The other was a famously volcanic politician, a thrower...
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Morris West & Ngo Dinh Diem
It was 1963 and Morris West, Australia’s most successful novelist, was researching his next book. Dismissed by the literati as a middlebrow...
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Robert Helpmann & Anna Pavlova
Little Bobbie Helpman was a delicate infant. On doctor’s orders, anything liable to make him cry was forbidden. His adoring mother, a woman...
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Helmut Newton and Alice Springs
One day in 1947, a rising Melbourne stage actress walked into a small Flinders Lane photography studio, looking to pick up some extra cash...
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Captain Arthur Phillip & Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse
On 24 January 1788 Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse, explorer and navigator, beheld a sight as startling as any he had...
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Howard Florey & Alexander Fleming
On 2 September 1940, as the Battle of Britain raged, a short, grey-headed man with a dapper bow tie presented himself at the pathology...
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