Halt The Presses
Friday, June 24th, 2005Two days before Prime Minister Harold Holt drowned in a snorkeling mishap – in 1967 – he composed a letter to Ben Cropp, a well-known undersea film-maker. The letter describes the beauties of the Barrier Reef, as well as the coral-eating threat posed by the crown-of-thorn starfish. Eerily, Holt never got to sign the letter, [...]