I sometimes believe I have too many websites. If I aggregated all my content here it would be a much bigger site. I try to differentiate between professional posts and personal ones, political stuff and general, long articles and short, etc. Anyhow, I don’t often cross-link between them. On this occasion, I invite readers here [...]
Federal Budget
I covered my first Federal Budget as a reporter tonight. Other papers I’ve worked at always had press deadlines that were too early. My coverage was still limited by time however, also isolation. Major newspapers are able to send reporters to Canberra where they go into a “lockup” at 4pm. That gives them restricted access [...]
Cutting edge humor
There was an advertisement in The Border Watch recently for a doctor who performs circumcisions. Surprised by this, a reporter spoke to him and it turns out he gets lots of enquiries from country people since the South Australian Government banned circumcisions in public hospitals. I wasn’t aware of the ban, having lived in Western [...]
Write your own web page
As the screenshot shows from a report on The Australian website, I fetched top dollar along with Kevin Pietersen in the auction for the Indian Premier League. The newspaper wouldn’t fib now, would it? Of course not, but thanks to an article on Read Write Web, I discovered a new online word processor called Shutterborg [...]
Challenging the Santa myth
I received several calls today about our “street sweeper” question in the paper. This is a daily vox pop where we ask people to comment briefly on a topical issue. The controversial question was: “Should young children be led to believe in Santa?” I had more complaints about that than anything else in the past [...]
