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AUDIO: Robert Drewe’s new book about Montebello

AUDIO Drewe delves into our nuclear past http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/10/31/3622855.htm  31 October, 2012  By Joanne Shoebridge and Samantha Turnbull
North coast author Robert Drewe has a new book based on Australia’s nuclear history The release of Robert Drewe’s latest work couldn’t be more timely.
The Byron Shire author’s Montebello unearths a chapter of Australia’s nuclear past.
The book will be officially launched next week, unexpectedly on the back of Australia pushing forward with sales of its uranium to India. Montebello is the name of a group of islands off the West Australian coast where the British tested atom bombs in the early 1950s.
Drewe says many Australians aren’t aware of the history. “It was a time of ‘let’s keep our heads down and not rock the boat,'” he said.”The nation had just been through a war, 10 years before, and people just wanted to get on with it.”
Hear Joanne Shoebridge’s interview with Robert Drewe in the attached audio.

November 1, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Audiovisual