Truth

1941, John Curtin becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Australia.

October 8th, 1899, the word wowser is first used by John Norton, who was editor of the Melbourne Truth newspaper.

The term denoting a puritanical killjoy entered the Australian vernacular and remains a distinctive piece of local slang.

I think it's funny the idea that like all words are made up, right? But I love it when we can point to a specific time and place and go, he made up this word and used it for the first time.

It still meant that a doctor was given the right to make that choice over a woman, but it was a start, and it was known as the Menhennett ruling.

Despite that, however, the truth is this didn't offer confidence to doctors.

The power of the police to intimidate continued, and the doctors were terrified to practice.

They wouldn't go back to work.

And then he-- And so Bert walked into police headquarters, and I'll never forget seeing him walking in, not knowing whether he was ever going to come out again.

And he'd made an appointment to see Inspector Ford, head of the ho- then head of the homicide squad, and, um, said, "This is what I've done." And Inspector Ford said, "Well, I may have to arrest you." But he didn't actually arrest him, and Bert walked out again.

Some of the newspapers didn't want to cover it, including the Herald Sun, but The Truth newspaper and the journalist named Evan Whitten understood what was going on.

And if The Age wouldn't publish it- Then Bert would give it to Truth, the Truth, and he held press conferences.