the early 1950s, he wrote a hard-hitting series that ran for over one year and called for radical reform of mental health and child welfare provisions in the State of Victoria. However, his main specialty was the Pacific and Southeast Asia, and Papua New Guinea, where he travelled extensively in the 1950s and early 1960s. He was the sole Australian press representative on the Australian Antarctic expedition of 1956-57. Following his retirement from daily journalism in 1963, he wrote a number of books, including a history of Papua New Guinea, a successful series of children's books, two novels, radio and television scripts and occasional contributions to various newspapers and magazines including Walkabout. He died in Melbourne on 16 May 1991. Works In addition to Green Armour, his other major work was Conquerors' Road'', which recounted his experience as a war correspondent in Europe. However, after having initially set publication dates, publishers in both the United States and England refused to publish the book. Although no reason was given at the time, White believed the work, which contained criticism of Allied forces behaviour at both the military and political levels, was too controversial. He was therefore obliged to shelve the book until the 1980s, when he re-edited it and attempted to have it published again. It was finally published posthumously by HarperCollins in 1996, and re-published by Cambridge University Press in 2003. It is a unique work in that it provides a first-hand account by an accredited war correspondent of the final days of Hitler's regime. References External links White at The Australian Literature Resource Australian war correspondents 1909 births 1991 deaths People from Katoomba, New South Wales 20th-century Australian journalists The Herald (Melbourne) people