Michael Tatlow's ancestors came to Australia's island state of Tasmania from Ireland in the 1820s. Family circumstances, his father's death, caused Michael to leave school aged 15. He earned a living trapping rabbits and snaring wallabies. He crewed a boat catching sharks in the Southern Ocean before becoming a newspaper reporter in Tasmania. He became News Editor and Acting Editor of Sydney's Sunday Telegraph, Chief-of-Staff and Pictorial Editor of the Daily Telegraph, and a Chief-of-Staff of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television news team. Now an historian, Michael has written...