David Hirst

David Hirst was an Australian journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author of Heroin in Australia . A great love of the American West took him to California and ultimately to a life in the Eastern Mojave desert. Upon returning to Australia, his prescient and revolutionary finance column, 'Planet Wall Street', was widely read in The Age newspaper. David died in 2013.

David Hirst was an Australian journalist, documentary filmmaker, and author of Heroin in Australia . A great love of the American West took him to California and ultimately to a life in the Eastern Mojave desert. Upon returning to Australia, his prescient and revolutionary finance column, 'Planet Wall Street', was widely read in The Age newspaper. David died in 2013. See less