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Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist: The Autobiography of Wilfred Burchett
Edited by George Burchett and Nick Shimmin
University of NSW Press
785 pages, $59.95

REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE

This weighty volume contains the full, unexpurgated autobiography of one of Australia's most interesting and controversial journalists and war correspondents.

Wilfred Burchett (1911-1983) was an inveterate traveller who experienced first-hand and reported on some of the major political events of his century.

Burchett saw himself as a heretic, and was proud of it.

His autobiography, Passport, appeared in Burchett was still barred from Australia.

His autobiography, Passport, appeared in Burchett was still barred from Australia.

Angrily denied by American military leaders in Tokyo, Burchett's "I write this as a warning to the world" report was a genuine worldwide scoop.

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Kisch, a flamboyant roving reporter and publicist for left causes, clearly inspired Wilfred's career.

Burchett was the most controversial journalist in Australian history.

He could not abide the hypocrisy of the Australian establishment, who were prepared to go to amazing lengths to punish a journalist who dared to report the truth as he saw it, especially "from the other side".

The offspring of South Gippsland pioneers, Burchett grew up in the Poowong district south-east of Melbourne.

A gifted story-teller, his account of years of poverty and precarious survival on rur