Shane Maloney
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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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Barry Jones & Arthur Koestler
Among the handful of authors who shaped his young mind, Barry Jones told his television audience in September 1968, Arthur Koestler ranked...
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand & the Platypus
On 17 May 1893, the newly launched SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth – a battle cruiser of the Austro-Hungarian Navy – steamed into Sydney Harbour. It...
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George W Bush & John Newcombe
For the Bushes, tennis was the family game, like touch football had been for the Kennedys. Olympic players and Davis Cup captains fed the...
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