A potted history of the nation in The Weekend Australian Magazine's 25th anniversary edition
AS the Weekend Australian Magazine turns 25, we look back at newsmakers and covers.
EVERY big story of the past 25 years, every major event, every important person: they're all there, documented and dissected in the pages of The Weekend Australian Magazine.
The first issue of the magazine was printed in September 1988 with Peter Blunden (now HWT managing director) at the helm. Its heart and soul was then, as it is now, original and groundbreaking stories about our country and the world.
The 25 years’ worth of magazines provide a potted history of this country - every prime minister since 1988, all major business figures, artists and entertainers. We’ve compiled an online gallery of some of the defining stories from that time (many interviewees are still in the news): Bronwyn Bishop, Simon Crean, Baz Luhrmann, Cate Blanchett, Tony Abbott, Kevin Rudd, Clive Palmer.
This weekend, the special anniversary issue contains a year-by-year snapshot of the people, events and newsmakers of the past 25 years.
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It kicks off with an exclusive interview with Tony Fitzgerald who, when this magazine launched in 1988, was presiding over a landmark inquiry into widespread corruption in Queensland. This is Fitzgerald’s first interview in 25 years.
Many other extraordinary Australians agreed to take part: among them Nicole Kidman, Adam Scott, Lleyton Hewitt, Noel Pearson, Peter Cosgrove, Jessica Watson and Fiona Wood. We talk to Walter Mikac, who lost his wife and two children in the Port Arthur massacre; the Beaconsfield miners, Brant Webb and Todd Russell; Victoria Cross winner Mark Donaldson and to Lindy Chamberlain, who last year finally received a death certificate confirming that a dingo did take her baby.
The 25th anniversary edition of The Weekend Australian Magazine is with the Weekend Australian today.
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