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Megan Kalajzich was shot as she slept beside her husband, Andrew on the Australia Day weekend, 1986. Andrew Kalajzich is currently serving a 28 year jail sentence for conspiracy to murder. He maintains his innocence.Bill Vandenberg confessed to being the "Triggerman" and subsequently committed suicide in prison. In his confession, Vandenberg claimed he fired two bullets into Megan's head and then two bullets into Andrew's pillow a few centimetres from his head. He claimed he deliberately missed, so that it would look as if Andrew had also been a target.
Was Andrew the target? Has an innocent man been convicted of this murder? Pippa Kay has researched this controversial case and finds many unanswered questions. She presents the evidence to the reader, using the 1994 Inquiry into doubts about Andrew Kalajzich's conviction as the setting in which the story of Megan's murder and the subsequent investigations are examined.
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A collection of Pippa's award winning stories
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Back Stories
On
Murder 2: True Crime Writing in Australia
edited by Kerry Greenwood, crime writer and legal aid solicitor, published
by Black Inc.
ISBN: 1 86395 378 7
Pippa's story in this anthology is called "The Triggerman".
To read this story in full, please go to:
No Thanks or Regrets, edited and introduced by Jacqueline Kent. Published by State Library of New South Wales Press 1996, ISBN: 0 7310 6604 9
This anthology of short biographies and autobiographies was published after the Society of Women Writers 70th Annual Literary Competition.
Pippa Kay won the competition with her story "The Replay" which begins:
'I've got a new computer game,' said nineteen-year-old son, between mouthfuls. 'It's hard. You have to set goals and when you achieve them you get points.'
'How many lives do you get?' asked twenty-one-year-old son who, having finished his dinner, pushed his plate away.'
'Only one.'
'That stinks! What's for dessert, Mum?'
'You'll find some ice cream in the freezer,' I told him. While he fixed plates of ice cream for himself, his father and brother, I sipped my wine and contemplated the problem of having only one life. In computer games you usually get three of more.
The
Battlers for Kellys Bush
compiled and edited by Pippa Kay (as Pip Kalajzich)
ISBN: 0 646 28420 7
In
1996 Pippa was asked to compile a book of the written memories of "The
Battlers": thirteen women and the first Green Ban. (1970).
Who were the Battlers? How did this group of thirteen housewives alarmed
at the prospect of losing a dozen acres of native bushland start a worldwide
movement? How did these women take on a big property developer and win?
What of the unlikely liaison between these women and the Builders Larourers
Federation? And what of these men who put their jobs on the line ...
In this book the Battlers, depicted by the media as a "twin sets and pearles" group but proving to be a formidable foe, record for their memories of the events which saved Kelly's Bush...
Lies
Longings and Lilly-Pillys: An anthology
Edited by Patricia Gaut, published by WWG/Ibis Books. ISBN: 0 9577342
1 2
In 1999 Pippa Kay won the Society of Women Writers National Short Story Award, with her story "The Old Feller". It is included in this anthology and begins:
I'm sittin' in the van with a specimen jar in me hand, and me hands are in cuffs. They're transferring me to another prison, and I gotta give a specimen to make sure I'm not takin' no drugs. They oughta know me by now. After all, I've been in prison for forty years, with a bit of a break after the first tewnty. I've never taken drugs in me life. But d'ya think I could pee for them? Happens smetimes when you get older. Doc said it was me prostrate or somethin' like that. Blocks the tube inside the old feller. Said I might need a operation if it got worse. Same with me ticker - some sort of blockage there too, they figure. I dunno...
This story has been recently published in Pippa Kay's anthology called Back Stories.
Unspeakable
Crimes
An anthology edited by Avalon,
published by Galley Press.1996
ISBN: 1 875 70107 9
Pippa (writing as P. Kalajzich) contributed her story "The Mangrove Lane Mystery". It begins...
I was seventeen. It was the first time I'd had sex and it was with Blake. We did it in his red Volkswagon which was fun at first; then it became a nightmare...
The
Stranger: Short Story Anthology and Workshop Notes
collated and edited by Pippa Kay
Published by Pippa Kay Pty Ltd, book produced by Hunters Hill Municipal
Council, 2004
ISBN: 0 646 43137 4
In 2004 Pippa conducted a series of short story workshops with high school students aged between 12 and 17 years. The short stories that were written as a result focused on the theme of "The Stranger". Eleven short stories were collected together with Pippa's workshop notes and were published in this book. The artwork for the cover was produced by one of the contributors, Pip Muratore, aged 17.