There aren’t many novels about newspapers. Stories involving print journalists are far fewer than those about lawyers, soldiers and police for example. That’s a little surprising when you consider that journalists are writers. But when you think about it, we are craftsmen while novelists are artists. We ply a trade while they follow their creative [...]
Coincidence
Fate has delivered a couple of interesting coincidences in the past week. Firstly, a friend I hadn't seen for more than 15 years contacted me at work. I met Carol, from Zimbabwe, at Alice Springs in 1988 and visited her in Harare and Kwe Kwe in 1990. It turns out she has been living in [...]
Victorian election
Political junkies will be interested in this article from The Age and will recognise the significance it holds for the seat of Morwell, which includes Traralgon where I grew up. Several high-profile members of the Traralgon ALP branch have quit the party and one, Lisa Proctor, will stand as an independent and direct preferences to [...]
Phone tone rage (PTR)
A Kalgoorlie Miner columnist, Kitty Prodonovich, wrote today about “phone tone rage” (PTR). It is quite amazing how the repetitive tones from an innocent little phone can incite so much anger and frustration, but they do. And it’s not just the phone rings; you can also have different sound for message alerts and other thing. [...]
Vice-regal visit
The Governor of Western Australia, Dr Ken Michael, has been visiting Kalgoorlie-Boulder this week. We had the honour of hosting him for a tour of the Kalgoorlie Miner building. He seemed to enjoy it, especially meeting the staff and seeing the old machinery. He suggested we should work towards establishing a newspaper museum, which is [...]
