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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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The Australian is turning 60Nation

Original staff members of The Australian Yvette Grady for the 60th Anniversary magazine (L-R) George Calvi, John Cowley, Sandra Hall, Warren Beeby and Yvette GradyJane Dempster/The Australian.

‘We thought he was magic’: Birth of a paper like no other

Rupert Murdoch set out in 1964 to start a national daily newspaper that could be read the same day across our ample continent. And he drew that first staff 60 years ago from all its corners.

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Our 60th anniversaryMedia

Original staff members of The Australian Yvette Grady for the 60th Anniversary magazine (L-R) George Calvi, Sandra Hall, Editor-in-Chief Michelle Gunn, Editor Kelvin Healy, Yvette Grady, Warren Beeby and John Cowley. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

‘The heady days’: Original staff recall launch of The Australian

As this masthead prepares to celebrate its 60th anniversary, early staff members recall the excitement of a young national daily newspaper.

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OBITUARYMusic

Legendary Recording Artist Frank Ifield has an ARIA and a new double CD.

Aussie country yodeller was bigger than the Beatles

Frank Ifield was born in the UK but grew up in Australia learning to yodel from hearing 1950s country songs on the radio.

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ObituaryNation

1982. Ignatius Jones, of band 'Jimmy and The Boys', with Molly Meldrum backstage at the Comedy Theatre. Ian Meldrum.

Wild-eyed frontman who shocked rock to its core

Ignatius Jones and his band Jimmy and the Boys were literally a shocking live act, attracting a hardcore audience and adventurous music fans who went along to see what the fuss was about.

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02/04/09 181843Graham Webb, who now calls Coolum home, is a character in a new Philip Seymour Hoffman film,

’60s pirate DJ and broadcast legend inspired MTV

Radio and TV star Graham Webb led a remarkable life that included being rescued from a pirate radio ship sinking in the English Channel.

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Muhammed Faris, Soyuz TM-3 research cosmonaut, trains for his 1987 spaceflight in a Soyuz spacecraft simulator. (Image credit: Roscosmos)

First Syrian spaceman defied wrath of Assad regime

Syrian Muhammed Faris was the first genuine Arab spaceman, and he proved his courage again during his country’s civil war.

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From the archiveInquirer

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures from the window of a prison van as he is driven into Southwark Crown Court in London on May 1, 2019, before being sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for breaching his bail conditions in 2012. A British judge on Wednesday sentenced WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to 50 weeks in prison for breaching his bail conditions in 2012. Assange took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden and was only arrested last month after Ecuador withdrew his asylum status. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP)

Assange’s sordid tale of treachery

Julian Assange is a criminal, a fabulist and an undisciplined, arrogant work-shy fraud who lacks an education while remaining a mannerless vulgarian. The WikiLeaks founder is no journalist.

Alan Howe

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