Malcolm Andrews
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Malcolm Andrews (1944 – 10 October 2018) was an Australian author and journalist. In his 45-year career, he worked for such media organisations as The Australian, the Daily Telegraph (Sydney), the Daily Express (London) and the Nine Network's current affairs program, Today. In the early 1970s, he spent five years in Munich working for the US State Department at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which broadcast news behind the Iron Curtain.
For five years in the 1980s, he was a daily columnist on the Telegraph. His first column, which ran for three years, was 'On The Spot', a half-page look at a particular personality or
As a freelance based on the
Andrews wrote 26 books. They include light-hearted looks at Australian life compiled in tandem with Bill Mitchell when he was cartoonist for The Australian, Great Aussie Stuff-upps, Great Aussie Trivia, Great Aussie Sports Heroes and sequels to the latter two. Others include Encyclopaedia of Australian Sports, Australia at the Olympics, Encyclopaedia of Australian Cricket, and the quaintly titled Another Bloody Sports Book.[1]
He was commissioned to write Tappy, the memoirs of racecaller
Andrews died in Port Macquarie on 10 October 2018.[2]
References
- ^ Listing of Books at the National Library of Australia
- ^ "Vale - Malcolm Andrews". Travel Monitor. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.