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“I admired the force of his writing, even when I often didn’t support what he wrote, and he was always warm when we met.” So wrote John Simpson, the veteran BBC foreign affairs correspondent, on news of the death of the campaigning journalist John Pilger on December 30 at the age of 84.
“I admired the force of his writing, even when I often didn’t support what he wrote, and he was always warm when we met.” So wrote John Simpson, the veteran BBC foreign affairs correspondent, on news of the death of the campaigning journalist John Pilger on December 30 at the age of 84.
Independent Australia is mourning the loss of John Pilger — a true legend, and a rare and fearless truth-teller until the very end.
A pact between editors, a blank front page and a Labor minister hellbent on confronting the press – what happened when the Sydney papers stood up to the censors?
A lecture by Harold White Fellow, Bridget Griffen-Foley, at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 6 December 2003 This lecture was preceded by the launch in Canberra of Bridget Griffen-Foley’s Sir Frank Packer: The Young Master.