Mal Walden's Aussie Icons and Legends: and their creative legacies

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Australias favourite newsman is back. This time with Legends and Icons those uniquely Australian stories, people and products. From a tradition of bush medicines to amazing world first medical discoveries. Walden takes us on a journey through Australian history to revive and pay tribute to those whose legacies have helped shape our nation. Serendipity is a happy and unexpected event that often occurs while searching for something else and as Walden shows, often a search for one thing led to amazing accidental Australian inventions.Join him on as he looks at true Australian Legends and Icons.

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Mal Walden is a former journalist and television news presenter based in Melbourne. On his retirement from television in 2013 he was reported as the longest continually serving face on Australian television. Forty-three of those years were presenting News. He has published 3 books, all with Brolga Publishing, including his memoir The Newsman, Good News! and Dont Piss In My Pocket and Tell Me Its Raining.