Craig Pett, Independent journalist
I am an out-of-hours independent journalist. In recent times, research interests have included MH370 & MH17, South Adelaide FC, The Murder of Swift’s Printer, Sydney-Melbourne bagging of Adelaide and what I broadly call Australiana. Click here for more about me and here to contact me.
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Home grounds and Heartlands: an off-field History of the South Adelaide Football Club
This is intended for the forthcoming book, The Grand Old Blue and White: A History of the South Adelaide Football Club, 1876-2025. It can be downloaded at the tab.
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New search for MH370 underway whilst Malaysia dithers
British deep sea search company Ocean Infinity has lost patience with the Malaysian government and has started a new search for MH370 without a ‘no find no fee’ contract in place. In an extraordinary development, on 13 February, Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Amir bin Abdullah of Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport, said that the contract with Ocean…
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MH370 at the communist crossroads
This was published in January 2025 under a different title in The Spectator Australia – here. Did MH370 really fly all the way down to the southern hemisphere, crashing in the Southern Indian Ocean (SIO) west of Perth? Or was this a manipulated narrative designed to take the search to the other side of the…
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‘There’s a new laziness in English journalism’, said one MP.
The regard I have always had for English journalism is due not only to the well-reasoned commentary and opinion pieces. Whenever I peruse an English newspaper or periodical, I am mindful also of the heritage of Whig and Tory and the rival printing presses of the late seventeenth century. I read with the knowledge that…
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The 2020 disappearance of Ean Higgins
In January 2022 when promoting its upcoming documentary on MH370, Sky News promised that the program would contain a bombshell revelation about the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. As it turned out, the show dropped two bombshells but neither was the one that had been promoted. Compered by Peter Stefanovic, the documentary was concerned with a…
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The Foundation of the South Adelaide Football Club: 1875-1876
This is intended for the forthcoming book, The Grand old Blue and White: 150 Years of the South Adelaide Football Club, 1876-2025. It can be downloaded at the tab.
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The motive for the downing of MH17
The International Court that presided over the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014 delivered its findings in November 2022. The Court, the District Court of the Hague, determined that the plane was brought down by Russian separatists with a surface-to-air missile fired from a unit known as a…
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The South Adelaide Football Club – A History of supporter groups
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The South Adelaide Football Club – Geoff Baynes and the late 1970s
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Perrottet’s ‘Adelaide card’ in the NSW election
For the people of South Australia, one point of interest in the upcoming NSW election concerns Dominic Perrottet’s repeated comparisons between Sydney and Adelaide. In Perrottet’s view, Sydney’s greatness is best measured against Adelaide because the South Australian capital leads the country in one respect only – dysfunctionality. His comments to this effect, which include…
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