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Bruce Page

Bruce Page reviews 'Keith Murdoch: Founder of a Media Empire' by Ronald M. Younger

February 2004, no. 258 01 February 2004
In the bitter federal election of 1917, Labor’s member for the marginal seat of Corio fell victim to dirty tricks. As a quartermaster sergeant in the AIF’s 3rd Division, A.T. Ozanne shouldn’t have been opposed. But Prime Minister Billy Hughes became electorally desperate, and he published a cable from General Monash, the division’s commander, which portrayed Ozanne as a deserter. Ozanne wa ... (read more)