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Alan Howe

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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Clockwise from main picture, Abdul Nacer Benbrika at home following his release from prison last month; police enter the home where Benbrika is required to reside; and standing guard as Benbrika and followers are taken from the Supreme Court in 2009, after being found guilty of forming a terror cell that plotted bomb attacks designed to kill thousands in Melbourne

This recently freed terrorist is our most expensive immigrant

In 1989, one man got under our guard, arrived and illegally stayed and later decided that on behalf of his god he would kill as many of us as possible. Between the trials, the surveillance, the police and ASIO investigations, the taxpayer bill for this indolent, venomous and malevolent liar is still being added up.

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Portrait of Australian icon Barry Humphries. He has just announced that he will appear in a personal show aware from his many faces. Picture: Dylan Robinson

Famous farewells of 2023

Notable figures in sport, politics, science, fashion and exploration died this year, and one ‘exhibitionist’ who held up a mirror to the absurdities of Australian life.

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