From the old bailey, heres daniel sandford. The subject of a nationwide manhunt, this was Constance Marten and Mark Gordon Injanuary last this was Constance Marten and mark gordon in january last year, this was Constance Marten and Mark Gordon Injanuary last year, as they tried to evade the authorities following the birth of their newborn baby, victoria, who they were worried would be taken into care like their previous four children. On the 1st of march last year, police found victorias body in a shopping bag in a shed on a brighton allotment. Today, Constance Marten gave evidence in the witness box at the old bailey, are weeping as she said she and mark gordon love their children more than anything in the world. Asked if she had been crawl to baby victoria, Constance Marten said. Talking quietly and with a very well spoken accent, she described how she became estranged from her wealthy family because of a traumatic event in her childhood, arguments over her grandmothers will and beca
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Painting a bigger picture of a forgotten genius
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By Morag Fraser
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Gideon Haigh
Scribner, $39.99
How to frame the life of a paradoxical historical character, particularly one who has almost slipped out of Australian public consciousness? Gideon Haigh notes in his first chapter of
The Brilliant Boy that “a recent documentary about Doc Evatt introduced him as ‘a little-known Australian’” and adds, “it may even be true”.
So how to go about the feat of resurrection? In this artful narrative, Haigh does it by focusing first on the particular – a private tragedy in a Jewish migrant family in Sydney, 1937 – and then adjusting his lens to capture the resonance of that tragedy in the extraordinary life, political experience and legal legacy of Herbert Vere Evatt. Haigh has narrative skill and the journalistic nous to make the story immediate and compelling.