Ice Station

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Ice Station by Matthew Reilly  Pan Macmillan, Sydney 1998

Talk about action packed! This is a thick book (611 pages) but most of the story covers little more than 24 hours!
A crack unit of marines happens to be close to Antarctica when their is a distress call from an American base. So Shane Schofield (nickname Scarecrow) [...]

Dark Victory

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Dark Victory by David Marr & Marian Wilkinson
Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2004

 
 
Marr and Wilkinson have brought to light the events surrounding the Australian Government’s refusal to accept illegal immigrants, or boat people, in 2001.

During Operation Relex, as it was called, there was a tight control of media coverage so the public was not aware [...]