GERALD STONE and his wife Beth made the long journey from the U.S. to Australia with their two daughters in 1962, refugees from the nuclear-fallout scare of that year. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Stone, 37, lived for five years in New York, where he worked for United Press International. As the senior reporter on the Australian Broadcasting Commission's top television news show, he earns $11,200 a year, which he reckons would be worth twice as much in U.S. terms.
"It all seemed so unsophisticated, almost naive," Stone recalls of Australia nine years ago. "Trucks stopped on highways to let schoolgirls cross the...
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