Alan Howe

Alan HoweHistory and Obituaries Editor

Alan Howe has been a senior journalist on London’s The Times and Sunday Times, and the New York Post. While editing the Sunday Herald Sun in Victoria it became the nation’s fastest growing title and achieved the greatest margin between competing newspapers in Australian publishing history. He has also edited The Sunday Herald and The Weekend Australian Magazine and for a decade was executive editor of, and columnist for, Melbourne’s Herald Sun. Alan was previously The Australian’s Opinion Editor.

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BE'ERI, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 13: A swing is left in tact while most the Gat house, and all of the interior, is left in ruins, after five family members were kidnapped and three are still missing, after Hamas militants attacked this kibbutz near the Gaza border on October 13, 2023 in Jerusalem, Israel. Israel has sealed off Gaza and launched sustained retaliatory air strikes, which have killed at least 1,400 people with more than 300,000 displaced, after a large-scale attack by Hamas. On October 7, the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel from Gaza by land, sea, and air, killing over 1,300 people and wounding around 2,800. Israeli soldiers and civilians have also been taken hostage by Hamas and moved into Gaza. The attack prompted a declaration of war by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the announcement of an emergency wartime government. (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Will anyone live in Be’eri again?

About 10 per cent of the people of the Be’eri kibbutz were murdered or kidnapped on October 7. Now a documentary tells their story.

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Paul Alexander, who spent 70 years in an iron lung after polio infection. Sky News pic

Boy written off as dead embraced life from iron lung

Paul Alexander’s life of bravery and resilience delivered results few of us can imagine. And he did it all confined for 70 years.

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Mike McColl Jones is a veteran comedy writer for Australian television. He wrote for Graham Kennedy, Don Lane and Bert Newton. Picture: Alex Coppel.

Funny man wrote for Aussie legends, and a president

Mike McColl Jones wrote gags for Graham Kennedy, Bert Newton and Steve Vizard – and even US President Ronald Reagan used one of his funny lines.

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Smartest human ever? Several geniuses thought so

The technology of digital computers and mobile phone is based on the work of Hungarian-born polymath John von Neumann. He changed our world.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer, Steve Jobs, John von Neumann, and Bugs Bunny

Computer viruses were seen as games before criminals moved in

The notion of a computer virus – although that term would not be coined until 1983 – had been theorised by the Hungarian mathematics genius, and J. Robert Oppenheimer associate, John von Neumann.

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Barbara Balzerani (C) (16 January 1949 – 4 March 2024) was an Italian terrorist as member of Red Brigades.

Terrorist unrepentant for her part in Moro murder

Former Italian Prime Minister Moro was kidnapped and held for 55 days before a sham trial after which he was shot dead in Rome.

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‘I couldn’t do that to Bob Dylan’Review

Day Two of the Byron Bay Bluesfest music festival, held at Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm, northern New South Wales. Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills and Nash plays the Crossroads stage.

Graham Nash and the moment music changed forever

Graham Nash knew Bob Dylan’s songs could not be improved. So Nash left The Hollies rather than record an album of cover versions, setting off a musical chain reaction leading to one of the greatest groups in history.

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