Maralinga

Reviews / Votes

[Walker] demonstrates powerfully why, regardless of the context in which the testing took place, the emotional legacy of Maralinga will linger in the Australian psyche, just as do Gallipoli, Bodyline and Singapore. * The Weekend Australian * Walker's book is a well written unmasking of a dirty secret that remains a black stain on our history * Law Society Journal * Review * APN Network * deeply engrossing, often enraging, read. * City Messenger * original and compelling account that succeeds in exposing the subterfuge and myopia of both British and Australian governments * The Saturday Paper * Walkers book is a well written unmasking of a dirty secret * Law Society Journal * An amazing tale - utterly gripping, it reads like a thriller * ABC Radio Melbourne * The story reaches out and grabs you by the throat * See Jaki * Frank Walker's book will shock you, but you'll also be enlightened. This book forces you to question our government and its role in what is described by one interviewed veteran as one of the greatest miscarriage of justice this country has ever seen." * Good Reading Magazine * This book will contribute to a much greater awareness and perhaps much more action on this issue * ABC National Radio * Walker demonstrates powerfully why, regardless of the context in which the testing took place, the emotional legacy of Maralinga will linger in the Australian psyche, just as do Gallipoli, Bodyline and Singapore. The cost in terms of damage to health, the environment and public trust in government will remain with us for generations to come." * The Australian * Walker, drawing on his own interviews with surviving servicemen and the evidence presented to the 1984 Royal Commission, has written an original and compelling account that succeeds in exposing the subterfuge and myopia of both British and Australian governments. The details he elicits from servicemen who witnessed the explosions give the narrative its power." * The Saturday Paper * Shocking revelations... * ABC Classic FM * An extraordinary story - there are things here that would make your hair stand on end * ABC Radio Canberra * The dusty file dragged from thousands stored in the archives at Kew in London seemed innocuous enough. But its contents made the hairs on author Frank Walker's neck prickle to attention....
Titled Nuclear Nightmare * The Daily Telegraph * This book will make you angry, and the details of the botched clean-up will make you nervous about the Abbott government's plans to make Australia the world's dumping ground for nuclear waste

titled: Explosive Findings * The Morning Bulletin, Queensland * This book will make you angry, and the details of the botched clean-up will make you nervous about the Abbott government's plans to make Australia the world's dumping ground for nuclear waste. * The Morning Bulletin, Queensland * Frank Walker's Maralinga is a highly critical account of the British testing. Walker, a veteran journalist and author, argues that the shameful neglect of the safety and wellbeing of the victims of the above-ground tests was evident not only in the poor treatment of servicemen and their families - to say nothing of the local indigenous population - but also manifested in the attitude shown towards everyone living on the Australian mainland at the time * The Australian * BRITISH scientists secretly used the Australian population to test for radiation contamination after the nuclear tests at Maralinga in the 1950s, a new book confirms. Its author, Frank Walker, has obtained the minutes of a top secret meeting in England where the UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment approved a program to determine the long-term effects of the tests on Australia and its citizens. * The Adelaide Advisor * This account, which Walker has pieced together from previously secret files and interviews with surviving veterans, sparks a rage in the reader that human beings could be treated with such contempt, such cold-blooded, Nazi like calculated evilness by a nation that, at the time, was regarded as our best friend and ally. It's simply horrifying. Walker's book is a well written unmasking of a dirty secret that remains a black stain on our history * Law Society Journal * This book should be on the school syllabus * Channel 7, Weekend Sunrise * I have read your book Maralinga through for the first time and it is a must for me to read it for a second time. Believe it or not but this is now my Bible. It is an eye-opening story, a story that just about every Australian should be made aware of, a frightening truth of what those who were at ground zero were subjected to and the aftermath * Reader Review * Maralinga is a top read....a disgraceful saga - thank you again for the book * Reader Review * chilling expose ... excellent examination of a dark chapter in Australian history. * Australian Defence Magazine * a must-read true story * Country News Shepparton * Review * West Australian * Review * Chain Reaction Magazine *