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McCarthyists go eighth column

“On July 29, 1949, Darwin’s Northern Standard reported an attack by the Herald’s Column Hate,” (C8) reports Roger Epps of Armidale. “They also claimed that the paper ‘has the faking of news down to a fine art’. And, no, Trump had then only just turned three.” “Margaret Whitlam (C8) pinched my seat!” claims Andrew Taubman […]

Tall tales from the Territory

Everyone has a Gough (C8) story, right? Like Ann Madsen of Mount Annan: “In the 1980s, I was living in a remote Northern Territory town. At election time, word spread that Gough Whitlam would be visiting with the local Labor candidate. We gathered outside the council office and my friend Steve, a huge fan of […]

Teen found dead in Sydney bushland

The body of a teenage boy has been found in bushland in Sydney’s south-west and police are treating the death as suspicious. The body, yet to be formally identified, was found in bushland off Wilton Park Road, Wilton, about 7.25am. Wilton Park Road is currently closed. Camden police have secured a crime scene and are […]

Putting the bite on Queen Vic

“$20 per tooth from the Tooth Fairy (C8) seems modest,” reckons Terry Funnell of Parramatta. “When interviewed in 1977, aged 93, the late Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, said that when she and her siblings lost their first teeth, their grandmother would give them a pound. She presented her grandmother, Queen Victoria, with three teeth […]