1. Full up: August 23 to 26
2. Sea rescue: August 26
3. Australia v. the boat people
4. Canberra scrambles: August 27
5. Pan Pan: August 28
6. Boarding party: August 29
7. Labor cornered: to August 31
8. Pacific Solution: August 30 + 31
9. The rule of law: August 29 to September 3
10. The thick grey line: September 3 to 10
11. The shadow of the Twin Towers: September 11 to 19
12. The voyage of the Manoora: September 3 to October 8
13. Launching the campaign: to October 8
14. Orders from the top: October 6 to 9
15. Truth overboard: October 9 to 12
16. A military campaign: October 14 to 23
17. The boat that sank: October 17 to 28
18. The worst of times: October 23 to November 4
19. The navy leaks: November 4 to 8
20. The burning issue: November 8 + 9
21. Victory party: November 10
Aftermath
Notes
Glossary and abbreviations
Marian Wilkinson is one of Australia's leading journalists and the
author of The Fixer a revealing account of the life and career of
Labor's Graham Richardson. She has worked as a senior reporter for
the Australian, deputy editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and
executive producer of Four Corners. She is currently the Washington
correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age.
David Marr is the award-winning author of Patrick White: A Life
Barwick and The High Price of Heaven. In a career spanning thirty
years, he has written for The Bulletin and the Sydney Morning
Herald, edited the National Times and reported for Four Corners. He
is now presenter of ABC-TV's Media Watch.
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