Chernobyl chief engineer’s career-ending meltdown
The world’s worst nuclear accident had been waiting to happen for 16 years, but the Kremlin still blamed the man who ran it.
The world’s worst nuclear accident had been waiting to happen for 16 years, but the Kremlin still blamed the man who ran it.
Peter Kelly was many things in his life – from proofreader to Canberra insider – and unfailingly brave and honest with everyone.
Louis Armstrong forgot his words and popularised scat, Dave Davies slashed his speaker and gave birth to metal: these are the mistakes that changed music.
Why this 42-year-old Abba song is the voice of a new generation.
Barry and Paul Ryan disrupted radio rules with their hit song Eloise, which not only featured an orchestra but also ran more than five minutes.
He was known as Superflack – the most influential publicist in the world – whose galaxy of superstars made him one as well.
Alan Lancaster was there from the start when he and a schoolmate started the band that would become a pop chart phenomenon.
Palm plantation workers on the Clunies-Ross family owned Cocos Keeling Islands were described as slaves – but not everyone agreed.
A forthright man, declared Prime Minister Scott Morrison, of the one-time tycoon who made his mark like few Australians have.
At the end of the 1980s John Elliott thought he was indestructible. But then came failure at his beloved Carlton and bankruptcy in 2005, capping off a remarkable downfall.
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