No Melbourne trip complete without visiting Victoria Market
One of the real delights when visiting Melbourne’s CBD is to spend time at the colourful, cheap and centrally located Queen Victoria Market. While up here in South-East Queensland we […]
Category Archives: Journalism
This former penal colony leaves everyone impressed
It is just a 90-minute drive from Hobart, or about 70 minutes from the city’s airport, but Port Arthur is a world apart from anything you’ll experience elsewhere in Tasmania […]
Southern Ocean’s siren call too strong to ignore
It might seem a big call, but we’ve both agreed it was the best $100 we’d ever spent on anything in our 50+ years, hands-down, and the perfect way to […]
Spend more than a little time in Seattle
If you’re a fan of Frazier or Grey’s Anatomy or THAT famous movie, then you may already be a little bit familiar with the skyline of Seattle. But sleepless is […]
Self-regulation clock has been ticking down
(This opinion piece, originally written in 2003, has proved eerily prescient as the debate on media reforms rages here and abroad a decade later. It was written after the first […]
Bull ‘mafia’ celebrates key milestone
MELBOURNE, April 4, 2013: Between them these five men can boast more than 200 years as iconic Australian news image-makers and photography is well and truly embedded in their lineage. […]
Royal commission presents challenges for Australia’s newsrooms
SLATED to run at least three years, with an interim report due in mid-2014 after initial public hearings, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse presents Australian […]
On the road: Maldon Easter Parade
Easter Monday this year was spent very differently, thanks to the good folk of Maldon in central Victoria. At 10.30am sharp, the town’s sizeable annual Easter Parade got under way […]
The year of living dangerously revisited
September 11, 2005 marked the fourth anniversary of the shocking terrorism attacks in the US, an incredibly difficult and confronting assignment for any journalist covering the horrors as they unfolded […]
Brisbane’s transport network flawed
If peak oil theories prove correct, and all signs are that they will, access to shrinking amounts of oil is the likelihood we must all face over coming decades. Yet what […]
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