Ru Pullan
Ru Pullan (1916–1993) was an Australian writer of radio, television, novels, short stories and theatre. He was one of the leading radio writers in Australia in the 1940s and 1950s. Writing as Luke Hardin, Cass Durand and Lew Rand, he published 50 novels in the western genre between 1962 and 1970. He also wrote romance novels using the pseudonyms Paul Easton and Wynne Barrie. Select credits *''Matrimonial Experiment'' (1947) – radio play *''Strong is the Seed'' (1949) – film *''Tjuringa'' (1950) *''The Storyteller'' (1951) – collection of stories *''The Strange house of Jeffrey Marlow'' (1951) – radio serial *''The Deceiver'' (1952) – radio serial *''The Renegade'' (1953) – radio serial *''The Imposter'' (1953) – radio serial *'' The Hunted One'' (1954-55) - radio serial *''Curly on the Rack'' (1958) – stage play (and 1960 radio play) *''The Restless Ones'' (1960) – novel *'' Bird with a Medal'' (1961) – stage play
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The Herald (Melbourne)
''The Herald'' was a morning and, later, evening broadsheet newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia, from 3 January 1840 to 5 October 1990, which is when it merged with its sister morning newspaper ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' to form the ''Herald-Sun''. Founding The ''Port Phillip Herald'' was first published as a semi-weekly newspaper on 3 January 1840 from a weatherboard shack in Collins Street. It was the fourth newspaper to start in Melbourne. The paper took its name from the region it served. Until its establishment as a separate colony in 1851, the area now known as Victoria was a part of New South Wales and it was generally referred to as the Port Phillip district. Preceding it was the short-lived ''Melbourne Advertiser'' which John Pascoe Fawkner first produced on 1 January 1838 as hand-written editions for 10 weeks and then printed for a further 17 weekly issues, the ''Port Phillip Gazette'' and ''The Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser''. But within ei ...
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