
The Weekly Notebook BY ALEX MITCHELLON SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 Exploring Read more →
The Weekly Notebook BY ALEX MITCHELLON SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 Exploring Australia-China history Canberra writer and journalist Rob Macklin has written a highly relevant, timely and utterly riveting book on the intricate relationship between Australia and China. Over the years, I’ve read most of Macklin’s 28 books but this is his best. It’s a cracker. With China established as Australia’s ...Continue Reading
The untold story of Hamilton Hume — the Australian-born explorer who truly opened up the nation. While English-born soldiers, sailors and surveyors have claimed pride of place among the explorers of the young New South Wales colony, the real pathfinder was a genuine native-born Australian. Hamilton Hume, a man with a profound understanding of the Aboriginal ...Continue Reading
WARRIOR ELITE ‘Warrior Elite charts what our military future will look like, based on some remarkable military and intelligence achievements of the past… ‘It is unique because Robert Macklin has tumbled to a reality that few people outside the official national security community understand: Australia’s Special Forces include not only the SASR and the Commandoes, but Australia’s ...Continue Reading
DARK PARADISE Norfolk Island Isolation, Savagery, Mystery and Murder Read an excerpt here Listen to a recent radio interview Robert gave about the book to PM's Mark Colvin From convicts to mutineers to modern scandals, Robert Macklin taps the history of Norfolk Island. Robert Macklin has successfully woven together the stories of the early settlement of New South Wales, the ...Continue Reading
THE GADFLY PAPERS, Robert Macklin’s delightful collection of columns, provides a charming antidote to the Canberra knockers. "The Gadfly Papers" by BWM Books on Ganxy// Continue Reading
Robert Macklin has carved out a unique place among Australia’s literary biographers and historians. His Dark Paradise swept aside the curtain of euphemism to expose the horror of colonial sadism on the penal colony of Norfolk Island. His monumental history of Australia’s Special Forces - Warrior Elite - is required reading in the fields of Military Security and Intelligence. His best-selling biography, SAS Sniper revealed as never before the battles against Islamist fanatics. And these are just a few of the highlights among his 27 respected and popular works of fiction and non-fiction...read more»
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