Libels, lampoons and litigants : famous Australian libel cases / Graham Fricke.

Melbourne : Hutchinson, 1984.

2638

Trials -- Australia.

Part I - A pride of politicians

1. The maligning of the member for Melbourne

2. The member for Reid and the Russian spy

3. The legendary King O'malley

4. Maverick minister

5. The high-flying Wright brothers

6. The wrath of the clergy and the dairy farmers

7. A kind of love

8. The big fellow wins out

Part II - Sportsmen, migrants, thespians and writers

9. An appeal to the judicial referee

10. Stirring the melting pot

11. Mrs Worthington's second law

12. Malice in Blunderland

13. The case of the poisonous poem

14. Vindication without glory

15. The watcher with the cast-iron case

16. Rebel without a passport

Part III - Detectives, felons and architects

17. Will the real detective lee stand up?

18. The outlawed Houdini

19. A most spectacular solatium.

0091487706

ix, 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm