<p>2022 marks 80 years since Australia faced an unprecedented foreign attack on home soil. Author Douglas Lockwood was an Australian newspaperman and author. Born in Natimuk, 25 kilometres west of Horsham in Victoria’s Wimmera district, Lockwood left school at 12 to help run his father’s newspaper, the weekly West Wimmera Mail , at the height of the Great Depression. With his father’s blessing he left home at 16 and worked as a reporter on rural Victorian papers in Camperdown, Tatura, and Mildura before being hired by Sir Keith Murdoch in 1941 as a journalist on The Herald in Melbourne. He stayed with The Herald’s parent company, the Herald and Weekly Times (HWT), for the rest of his life. At the end of 1941, during World War II, he was sent to Darwin with his new wife, Ruth, and was there for the first Japanese attack on Australia on 19 February 1942. While Douglas was there and was able to share his personal story he also interviewed American’s Japanese and other nations who took part. He was able to meet & interview former airmen who had flown against the Japanese that day and been shot down. He tells the story of the Bombing of Darwin.</p>

Australia's Pearl Harbour: Darwin, 1942 (Australian war classics)

History

Douglas Lockwood

Asia

Ringwood: Penguin Books Australia, 1992

Up the Track

Rigby Limited

I, the Aboriginal

Ian Drakeford Publishing, Pty. Ltd.

Alice...on the Line

Doris Blackwell

Australia & Oceania

Landsdowne Publishing

<p>The autobiography of Waipuldanya, a full-blood Aboriginal of the Alawa tribe at Roper River in Australia's Northern Territory, as told to Douglas Lockwood. In his youth, Waipuldanya was taught to track and hunt wild animals, to live off the land, to provide for his family with the aide only of his spears and woomeras. This is the gripping story of his boyhood and youth, and how he trained as a skilled medical assistant, to become a citizen of both the Aboriginal and whitefella worlds.</p>

Lansdowne Publishing

The Lizard Eaters

J.B. Books Australia

Art Australia

Story of life at Alice Springs at the start of the 1900's.

Alice on the line [Alice Springs]

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