Sydney’s newspaper rebellion: the night the censors called armed officers on the press
Eighty years ago, in September 1943, Australia’s newspaper owners feared the worst when Labor’s Arthur Calwell was sworn in as minister for information in John Curtin’s wartime government. Unlike most politicians, the federal member for Melbourne relished fighting with the press. Calwell’s…
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