A bunch of old Go-Setters who’ve settled around Byron

It was 50 years ago this month that a weekly pop music paper called Go-Set launched across Australia – wholly independent of all the established corporate media. It was a paper for teenagers produced by a teens and twenty-something staff, and while it revolved around the music scene, it also spoke to our quest for an entirely new culture.

I started Go-Set with a fellow Monash uni student, Tony Schauble, and a core group of mates from Monash and from the discos and band culture that was breaking out in Melbourne in the mid-60s.

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Privacy ends October 13, 2015

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Gough Whitlam and the CIA

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Richard Hil talks to Phillip Frazer about Gough Whitlam and the CIA (Video)

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Last days in Phnom Penh before the Khmer Rouge

“If US aid was cut back to the last dollar, 50 cents of it would still find its way into the generals’ pockets”
CAMBODIA
March, 1975
Note from PF in 2014: Philip Brooks wrote these anonymous dispatches for The Digger, with James Shuvus Williamson, while the two of them lived on the edge and sometimes on the run.
March 18 was the fifth anniversary of the coup that made General Lon Nol premier of Cambodia. Backed by the CIA and the American government Lon Nol declared war on the Khmer Rouge, a war that has been fought by conscripts with American weapons and ever-diminishing food and arms. On March 15, a Digger correspondent flew into Phnom Penh for several days and returned the following impressions.