The Man Who Fell To Earth

Nine years after he was arrested on cocaine charges, former solicitor Andrew Fraser has reinvented himself as a public speaker and bestselling author, writes Peter Wilmoth.

Naked Eye

TIM GARTRELL was a normal bloke in an abnormal job, Labor elder John Faulkner said of the ALP's departing top strategist at a swish function in Canberra on Thursday night. Faulkner - a po-faced senator who transforms into a witting and entertaining after-dinner speaker - placed the outgoing national secretary in Labor's history books as one of its best strategists and advisers. Faulkner reckoned Gartrell was an oddity in the Labor Party - he knew less about sport than any man, woman or child in ...