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Writing for His Life : Stewart Cockburn, Crusading Journalist
North Melbourne
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Australian Scholarly Publishing
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2022
24453444
2022
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biography
'As a journalist, Stewart Cockburn was instinctive and fearless. The 16-year-old copy boy who started at the Adelaide Advertiser in 1938 was to have a career in writing, radio and television that spanned more than 45 years. Restless ambition took him to post-war London with Reuters, to Melbourne with the Herald, to Canberra as Press Secretary to Prime Minister Robert Menzies, and to Washington, DC as Press Attaché at the Australian Embassy.' (Publication summary)
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Advertiser (Adelaide)
2014
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companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : A 2014; (p. 2-3) -
Adelaide and the Country : The Literary Dimension
2014
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criticism
— Appears in: Adelaide : A Literary City 2014; (p. 111-123) -
Paper with Two Front Pages Hott Off the Press
2009
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column
— Appears in: The Australian , 10 August 2009; (p. 34) -
Memories of a News Hound
2008
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column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 12 July 2008; (p. 13)
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He's Not Shy - but Atchison is Retiring
2008
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column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 26 January 2008; (p. 1-2) -
Memories of a News Hound
2008
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column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 12 July 2008; (p. 13) -
Paper with Two Front Pages Hott Off the Press
2009
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column
— Appears in: The Australian , 10 August 2009; (p. 34) -
Our Literary Pages : The Adelaide Advertiser
1988
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criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 107 1988; (p. 23) -
Everything You Want to Know that `The Advertiser' Won't Tell You
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"Twenty years ago Charles Perkins was wrapped up",
1997
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poetry
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , January no. 160 1997; (p. 28)
PeriodicalNewspaper Details
Has serialised
- Unfinished Business (from The Last Confession) Up in Smoke, single work novel extract
- Mr Jelly's Business, single work novel crime
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The Lonely House,
single work
novel
detective
A detective on holiday in South Australia stumbles on a cunningly planned murder.
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The Fall of a Dictator,
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novel
thriller
'DICTATORS have many things in common, and General Bratz, ruler of Cyranta, was a typical despot. He had won power by ruthless might, and he maintained it by a reign of terror unparalleled in his country's turbulent history. An army of secret police, grim prisons, and horrid tortures kept his people in subjection, but these things brought no peace of mind to General Bratz, for he knew the Secret Services of half a dozen countries were seeking his most closely-guarded plans for conquering Europe. It is the exciting adventures of a British agent in the seething little kingdom of Cyrania that make such thrilling reading of "The Fall of a Dictator," the novel which Arthur Gask, the well-known Adelaide author, has just completed.'
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'New Serial by Arthur Gask', Advertiser, 17 December 1938, p.19.
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The Hangman's Knot,
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novel
detective
'Six men are murdered in seven weeks and the most searching enquiry by Scotland Yard fails to disclose any connection between them or any reason anybody could have for killing them. The methods employed are perfectly ordinary, bullet, knife, or bludgeon, and the murders occurred in public places in daylight, yet the investigation is completely held up. It was not until Gilbert Larose, the Australian detective, after a painstaking search for verification of a flimsy guess, built up the first tangible clue that the hunt began. Mr. Gask tells a story of a relentless step by step hunt which brought four men to their deaths.'
Source:
'Murder without Motive', Advertiser, 29 November 1935, p.18.