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The conventional wisdom that Liberal leader Robert Menzies used the Petrov defection to deny H.V. Evatt the Lodge is a myth, writes a historian.
Melbourne-based labour historian, Phillip Deery recently launched Karen Throssell's book The Crime of Not Knowing Your Crime, about her father Ric Throssell's lifelong battle with ASIO to clear his name.
In The Reds (1998), the first part of his history of the Communist Party of Australia, the late Stuart Macintyre commented: “With its passing, communism has become almost unintelligible.” Twenty-four years later The Party, the posthumously published second volume, continues the argument.