A true hero we all should be proud of.
On the Literature cruise I recently attended we were privileged to listen to the words of Nick McKenzie, the award-winning journalist who with another award-winning journalist, Chris Reason, won the "defamation trial of the century", an historic Federal Court lawsuit brought by decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith. It was judged that four of the six murder allegations in Afghanistan presented to the court by the journalists in defence of their earlier reporting were substantially true. For the final NEW Rookwood blog, I wanted to end the year with a true hero. One who continued to be a hero long after he hung up his uniform. JOHN WOODS WHITTLE John was born on the 3rd of August 1883 on Huon Island Tasmania, one of seven children to Henry Whittle and his wife Catherine. He enlisted as a private in the Tasmanian Contingent during the Second Boer War. He reached South Africa in 1901, saw action in the Cape Colony and returned to Tasmania in 1902 and soon after joine...