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David Hastings

David Hastings is an Australian/New Zealand journalist and historian. He began working as a copy boy on the Melbourne Sun in 1970 and ended in 2013 as editor of the Weekend Herald. His published histories include Over the Mountains of the Sea: Life on the Migrant Ships 1870–1885Extra! Extra! How the People Made the News, and The Many Deaths of Mary Dobie: Murder, Politics and Revenge in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand.

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Cathy McGowan – Cathy Goes to Canberra

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A conversation with Kerryn Phelps and Van Badham about independent, community-driven politics. In 2013 Cathy McGowan became the first female independent to sit on the crossbench, where she would represent...

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