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Peter's contribution to the controversial figure in Australian military history is a welcome addition to understanding who Breaker was and his contribution to Australia's first military conflict after Federation, the Anglo Boer war. My won mission since 2009 has been to secure an independent inquiry into the trial and execution of Lieutenants Morant, Peter Handcock and imprisonment of George Wittion. Their trials and sentences were polluted by injustice and the failure to treat these men in strict accordance with Military and Common law of 1902. I hope that Peter's contribution will be a welcome aspect of the advocacy to achieve agreement from the Australian Government to complete an inquiry and hopefully an outcome of posthumous pardons for these Australian veterans.

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Peter FitzSimons

Peter FitzSimons AM is Australia's bestselling non-fiction writer, and for the past 35 years has also been a journalist and columnist with the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD and the SUN-HERALD.

He is the author of a number of highly successful books, including BREAKER MORANT, BURKE AND WILLS, MONASH'S MASTERPIECE, KOKODA, NED KELLY and GALLIPOLI, as well as biographies of such notable Australians as Sir Douglas Mawson, Nancy Wake and Nick Farr-Jones. His passion is to tell Australian stories, our own stories: of great men and women, of stirring events in our history.

Peter grew up on a farm north of Sydney, went to boarding school in Sydney and attended Sydney University. An ex-Wallaby, he also lived for several years in rural France and Italy, playing rugby for regional clubs. He and his wife Lisa Wilkinson AM - journalist, magazine editor and television presenter - have three children; they live in Sydney.