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Australia’s team was witness to history’s most controversial Games, conducted in the cauldron of pre-WW2 Berlin. The 1936 Summer Olympics signalled Germany’s return to the world community after WWI. That year’s Australian team comprised thirty-three athletes, some of whom were oblivious to the ideological exercise the games were to become. Handicapped by a lengthy ocean […]

Allan was Greg Combet’s chief of staff in the Defence Materiel, Climate Change and Industry portfolios. Allan was Chief of Staff to former Labor Cabinet Minister, Greg Combet. After a varied career as a senior public servant, he took on the job in 2009. It was during the period when Greg Combet was managing the […]

Gill Hicks was living in London in 2005. One morning she boarded a train on the Picadilly Line, and in the crowded carriage she was standing next to Jermaine Lindsay who was carrying a bomb. When the bomb was detonated, she felt as though she was being enveloped in inky blackness. When the emergency lights […]

Our new Sunday Post will include a recorded interview from Richard Fidler’s weekday Conversations broadcast. Now in his 10th year as presenter, Richard Fidler brings his well-briefed and turned-up-to-eleven curiosity to every interview. Stories from scientists, carers, musicians and philosophers; from boxers, prisoners, princes and prime ministers. Some strange, some sombre, some funny; some mind-bending and many, unforgettable. So […]