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Sunday, 17 June 1990

Photo, Covering a Bachelor and Spinsters Ball Out West, The Australian, Circa 1990.

I'm the chap with the reporter's pad stuck down his pants. The story on Australia's infamous Bachelor and Spinster Balls, beloved by country youth coming of age,  ran on Page One and caused a storm of indignation.

Saturday, 3 December 1988

Letter to Richard, 3 December, 1998.

The Chief of Staff I am complaining so bitterly about is Paul McGough, who I loathed working for.
Rather than disappearing, as Zac, the head of photography, predicted, he went on to cover the war in Iraq and during the 2010s to be the American correspondent for the SMH, a much sought after position.
To this day, I particularly dislike his to my mind fatuous American copy.