The story of the first cadet-midshipmen to join the Royal Australian Naval College is without parallel.

In 1913 twenty-eight thirteen-year-old boys joined the new Navy at a time when Australia was both idealistic and ambitious. The boys were drawn from every State and became known as the 'Pioneer Class'.

Australia's Argonauts is the result of many years' research. It brings together previously unpublished diaries, letters, archival material and photographs. The Pioneer Class bore witness to or were leading actors in the most important events in the Navy's early...

The story of the first cadet-midshipmen to join the Royal Australian Naval College is without parallel.

In 1913 twenty-eight thirteen-year-old boys joined the new Navy at a time when Australia was both idealistic and ambitious. The boys were drawn from every State and became known as the 'Pioneer Class'.

Australia's Argonauts is the result of many years' research. It brings together previously unpublished diaries, letters, archival material and photographs. The Pioneer Class bore witness to or were leading actors in the most important events in the Navy's early...

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When Mark Murphy died in October 2015, some obituaries mourned the passing of the greatest jazz singer in history. Murphy was also the last of his kind, a hipster of the Kerouac generation, who fought against the straight life of prosperity and numb consumerism. With a catalogue of more than 40 albums under his own name as well as numerous collaborations, Mark Murphy was also a consummate improviser, who never sang a song the same way twice. He could have had a successful mainstream career in the vein of Mel Torme or Jack Jones. But his ambition was greater - to be an artist, to rebel against...