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Bold and thorough, this biography traces the life of one of Australia’s most controversial and legendary journalists, Alan “The Red Fox” Reid, who covered the nation’s politics from the 1930s to the 1980s. Demonstrating how Reid not only reported the news but shaped it due to his connections with Labor Prime Ministers Ben Chifley and John Curtin, this volume covers a number of momentous events in Reid’s career—including his early associations with the Labor Party, his split with the party in the 1950s, and his breaking of the “36 faceless men” story in 1963, exposing the 36 delegates to the Australian Labor Party who dictated policies to the exclusion of the party’s elected leadership team. This narrative is sure to captivate those interested in the history of journalism and politics in Australia. ** Front Cover 1 About the Author 2 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Foreword by Laurie Oakes 8 Acknowledgments 14 Prologue 16 A journalist is born 24 War and postwar 40 Capital capers 66 Petrovied 81 Sexing up Santamaria 94 The House of Packer 113 A Jungle Book 139 Telling stories 155 Faceless men 168 At home with the Liberals 180 Power struggle 196 Jolly John 215 In cold blood 236 McMahon PM 256
- Author
- Ross Fitzgerald and Stephen Holt
- Publisher
- New South
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781742231327
- Subjects
- Memoir, Computer Science, Literary Fiction