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Watergate: Yes, It Could Happen Here

As Nixon’s resignation drew near, in Australia the columnist Creighton Burns wondered whether Watergate was possible in that country.

Burns was a journalist and academic. He was editor-in-chief of The Age newspaper in Melbourne from 1981 to 1989. He died in 2008, aged 82.

This article was published in The Age on July 31, 1974.

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