Who was the most innovative general of World War One? For The Hon Tim Fischer, former National Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister, the answer has to be Australia’s “Maestro” John Monash, a man who, for all the recognition he received in his lifetime and after, has arguably not been given his proper due. Fischer…

The Hon Tim Fischer AC, former Australian Ambassador to the Holy See, has since published his account of his 1000 days in his ambassadorial job in the book Holy See, Unholy Me. As Australia’s first ambassador in Rome, Tim Fischer brought a new relationship to the Vatican city between a country of distinct Anglo colonial…

The Hon Tim Fischer was Australia’s deputy Prime Minister in the Howard Government from 1996-99. He retired from politics in 2001 and is currently Australia’s Ambassador to the Holy See. In Rome, Tim Fischer has been closely associated with the final stages of the canonisation of Australia’s first saint, Mary MacKillop. On the 2 September…