Murder on HMAS Australia
Judith Crosland
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Murder on HMAS Australia

the wartime crime that made legal history

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Pacific War. 1942. HMAS Australia hunts down Japan's naval presence with little success. Morale is low, homosexuality rife. Two stokers - Albert and Ted - are accused of murder. Only one of them is guilty. A court martial sentences both men to hang. On appeal, the High Court of Australia holds the sentence wrong in law. Together the ship's captain, the stokers' defence counsel and a senior Labour minister seize this legal impasse as a political opportunity to claw back naval power from Whitehall. Albert and Ted, meanwhile, await their final sentence by spending eight bleak years in three priso...