Unusual events
I was just writing an email to a former colleague when it occurred to me that I should post some of it here as well …
Kalgoorlie has some iconic attractions including brothels and two-up. Tomorrow’s front page features a dispute between a brothel madam and the local council over car parking!
Last week we had a report about a prisoner who escaped from the local jail, spent the night with his girlfriend and was caught breaking back into the jail.
There are some interesting issues to manage here that don’t crop up at too many other places, but I’m enjoying it all so far.
One of my casual photographers asked me last week about the protocol for taking pictures inside a brothel, as if I’d know! I can’t imagine the customers being too keen, so all I could suggest was to ask permission first!
I'm a 41-year-old father of four working as a newspaper editor at Mount Gambier in South Australia.
