Stanley Clive Perry Turnbull (22 December 1906 – 25 May 1975) was an Australian writer and

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. He was born in Glenorchy in

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. He joined ''

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'' newspaper as a reporter in 1922 and then moved to

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where he worked as a staff writer on '' The Herald,'' where in 1942, Murdoch appointed him as

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, in which role he championed

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. He is best known for his book ''Black War'' that examined the extermination of

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in Tasmania. He also wrote a series of biographies.

Bibliography

* ''Black War: The Extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines'', F. W. Cheshire, 1943; Sun Books, 1948 * ''A Concise History of Australia'', Thames and Hudson, 1965.

References

The Australian Dictionary of Biography
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