Observer helps ‘Public Enemy Number One’
Sunday, March 1, 1970
The Sunday Observer newspaper of March 1, 1970, became part of the story when the paper’s owner, Gordon Barton, funded the flight of banned journalist Wilfred Burchett back into Australia. News Editor Bill Green wrote the front-page story of how Burchett was flown into Brisbane in a chartered air craft ending years of attempts to return to his