The Petrov affair: how a real-life Cold War defection became a soothing spy story for anxious Australians
Framing the Petrov affair as a thrilling spy drama may have helped Australians manage their anxiety about the threat posed by Soviet espionage.
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Framing the Petrov affair as a thrilling spy drama may have helped Australians manage their anxiety about the threat posed by Soviet espionage.
This November 11, for many at ceremonies around the nation, the clocks will stop, the breath will pause for a minute to remember the dead and injured of war. By Warwick McFadyen
Across Australia and throughout the Hellenic diaspora, this month will see Hellenes take part in their annual commemoration of OXI Day – the day that the then leader of Greece, Premier and former General Metaxas, rejected the Italian dictator Mussolini's ultimatum in the early hours of the 28th October 1940.
This month we remember and commemorate Greece's valiant and successful resistance to the Italian invasion in 1940. We should also remember that Greece's fight was responded to across Australia by people coming together to support the Greek people in their hours of need.
Australia’s CA-15 was one of the world’s fastest piston-engine fighters, but it was obsolete by the time it first flew.