Farewell to the wizards of Oz

Abstract

Many Australian journalists found success in Fleet Street from the Second World War onwards. One of the most celebrated of them, the award-winning former Sunday Times reporter, Phillip Knightley, mulls over the reasons why he and his countrymen did so well. And he takes the opportunity to pay tribute to his late friend, Murray Sayle, "a loner who became the hero of his own stories".