The ugly duckling submachine gun that helped save Australia. Invented by a schoolboy Evelyn Owen in Wollongong during the 1930s, the Owen gun was the best submachine gun in WWII
Dr David Gormley-O'Brien is a writer and historian based in Woodend, Victoria, where he lives with his partner, Sara, on a smallholding with geese, ducks and chickens, a dog named Mavis, and a bossy cat called Franklin.