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Richard Carleton

It’s just been announced that 60 Minutes reporter Richard Carleton has died, minutes after asking a question at a press conference at the Beaconsfield mine. He was one of the towering figures of Australian journalism over the past few decades, probably most famous for his “Do you have blood on your hands?” question to Bob Hawke in 1983. I never met Richard, but was at university with his son James, now carrying on his father’s legacy as an ABC radio journalist.

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5 Responses to “Richard Carleton”

  1. Mork says:
    8 May 2006 at 8:58 pm

    I’m not sure he was so much famous for the question as for being the object of Hawke’s answer!

    For a really tasteful reaction to Carleton’s death, hold your nose and go to: http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/richard_carleton/

  2. Bebe says:
    10 May 2006 at 5:11 pm

    Hey Mork, Have you ever met Carleton????? Don’t bag someone until you have met them. You judge him because he actually asks the questions most of us are to scared to…. had a look at that link..mate it’s crap….

  3. Patrick says:
    10 May 2006 at 8:25 pm

    ‘Don’t bag someone until you have met them‘ is clearly not suitable to today – I expect you shan’t feel so restrained when you read my comment;)

    Perhaps you meant de mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est? But ‘“de mortuis nil nisi verum, de vivis nil nisi bonum,” would approach perhaps much nearer to good sense‘, in the words of one of Dr Johnson’s correspondents.

    I must agree.

  4. MP says:
    16 May 2006 at 3:04 am

    Mork,
    You disrespect the dead and that is a sin. Shame and you and those silly others on that link of yours. Its a disgrace and I feel ashamed for you, you shall meet your maker one day and I hope you can make up for the disrespect you have shown to such a upstanding citizen like Mr Carleton.

  5. Carleton’s murderers set to release a song, “321 hours”. | Tuna Crust says:
    15 April 2007 at 3:23 pm

    [...] By admin | April 15, 2007 //Yahoo News reports “Rock song for Aussie miners who survived rock fall”. Todd Russell and Brant Webb, made famous for killing Richard Carleton while hiding nearly a kilometer below the surface in a collapsed mine have confirmed the fears of all Australian’s and are set to release a song. Joined by their wives and an Australian rock band, Unitopia, they will be releasing a song called “321 hours”. The name of the song signifies the amount of time the two were in their underground hideaway before being caught. [...]