An ex-soldier, alcoholic, and newspaper editor, John Newman Edwards spent the years ... the very enormity of their outlawry." Soon Edwards, now a leading figure in the Confederate wing of the ...

Johnson called out Edwards then and did it again last week while appearing on Byron Scott's Fastbreak podcast. "Don't attack all the old school guys when you haven't done your homework," Johnson said.

At the same time the Minister for Trade, Simon Crean, appointed Dr Edwards to join chairman David Mortimer AO in a two-member Review of Australian Trade and Investment Policies. From 1991 to 1994 John ...