NO WORDS FOR THIS - Books-Biography : Onehunga Books & Stationery - HARPER COLLINS BIOGRAPHY OPTIONAL MAU ALI

In my family, we never talked about the past.

Since the age of twelve, Alison Mau wanted to be a journalist just like her dad. A beer-swilling, straight-talking man who was rough around the edges but could quote passages of Hamlet at will, he taught Ali everything from rabbit-hunting to throwing a punch and crafting a sharp sentence. Didn't matter that he complained loudly of his sexless marriage and put down the women in their social circle - these were just a mark of the times, Ali thought.

Ali grew up in suburban Melbourne in the 1970s, and got her start in journalism at The Warracknabeal Herald, where the entire reporting staff of the eight-page gazette was female. But from there, Ali would go on to work in some of the most infamous and patriarchal Australian newsrooms of the 80s and 90s, including the Herald Sun, and Australia's top TV news station, Channel 9, under the notorious John Sorrel. When romance took her to New Zealand, Ali made a glittering career for herself as ...