Whilst retaining his post at the Herald, in 1956 he developed the idea of an independent, liberal-minded journal, as an antidote to the general conservative stuffiness of Australian print media at the time.
[4] Both were printed by the quixotic Francis James's Anglican Press, for a time in the crypt of Christ Church St Laurence.
[6] Nation published stories that the mainstream press was not prepared to print, such as Ken Inglis's 1959 article about Max Stuart, an Arrernte Aborigine who had been convicted of the murder of a nine-year-old girl and sentenced to death.
[10] When The Australian began publication in 1964, a number of contributors to Nation moved to the new daily newspaper, including Brian Johns, Ken Gott, Robin Boyd, Robert Hughes, Maxwell Newton and Max Harris.
"[15][16][17] In his memoir Things I Didn't Know (2007), art critic Robert Hughes describes Fitzgerald and Munster walking across Kings Cross, after Vadim's had closed for the night, "to take up a laminate table at a hamburger joint named Hasty Tasty... and finish their editing there".