Award-winning Australian journalist, Evan Whitton, dies at the age of 90

By Tony Stephens
Updated July 25 2018 - 10:00am, first published 9:00am

OF all the many accolades paid to Evan Whitton, the journalist seemed to take most pleasure from that offered by a corrupt senior policeman. It followed Whitton’s work with Dr Bertram Wainer to expose police involvement in the illegal abortion industry. The revelation, in 1969, ultimately led to the decriminalisation of abortion.

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