Very true, though back then far less luck was required.
Most of my Fairfax contacts came via my friend Wendy Bacon, who had exposed the 'Police BBQ set' connections between the Armed Holdup Squad and Neddy Smith in the National Times. I think Antony Loewenstein was still a Fairfax cadet back then too. I could even count on sympathetic coverage of some issues in The Australian thanks to Elisabeth Wynhausen.
I gave up reading the National Times after Kerry 'The Goanna' Packer nobbled its distribution, forcing it to reinvent itself as the much watered-down broadsheet 'The Times on Sunday' under Robert Haupt.
I stopped buying the SMH in the early 2000s because of its racist coverage of corruption allegations in First Nations NGOs, but continued to work for some time with their investigative reporter Gerard Ryle and received tips from the NSW parliament reporter Paola Totaro when she couldn't put them in the SMH.
As for the ABC, I never used to watch or listen to myself on air when they interviewed me and gave up on them entirely during the incredibly racist and dishonest Lateline coverage of NT First Nations communities that culminated in the Mutitjulu story and triggered the NT Intervention. Though there's still a couple of ABC reporters I consider friends I swore off all collaboration with ABC journalism, though I've recently broken that commitment at the urging of some of my activist colleagues.
Nah! Wrong rag. Nation Review was a left wing weekly featuring people like Mungo McCallum, Bob Ellis, Patrick Cook and Leunig. And others, mind you I'm thinking more of the '70s in Sydney.
I used to enjoy listening to Mungo on 2JJ and usually like Leunig cartoons. Patrick Cook, of course, did the often excellent cartoon on the back page of the National Times. As for Ellis, he was always all over the shop but I love an entertaining ratbag. There's something very 'Sydney' about that style.
You were bloody lucky to find a sympathetic reporter. These days you'd only find pathetic.
Especially at the SMH.
Very true, though back then far less luck was required.
Most of my Fairfax contacts came via my friend Wendy Bacon, who had exposed the 'Police BBQ set' connections between the Armed Holdup Squad and Neddy Smith in the National Times. I think Antony Loewenstein was still a Fairfax cadet back then too. I could even count on sympathetic coverage of some issues in The Australian thanks to Elisabeth Wynhausen.
You sound like someone who might have read The Nation Review
Nope.
I gave up reading the National Times after Kerry 'The Goanna' Packer nobbled its distribution, forcing it to reinvent itself as the much watered-down broadsheet 'The Times on Sunday' under Robert Haupt.
I stopped buying the SMH in the early 2000s because of its racist coverage of corruption allegations in First Nations NGOs, but continued to work for some time with their investigative reporter Gerard Ryle and received tips from the NSW parliament reporter Paola Totaro when she couldn't put them in the SMH.
As for the ABC, I never used to watch or listen to myself on air when they interviewed me and gave up on them entirely during the incredibly racist and dishonest Lateline coverage of NT First Nations communities that culminated in the Mutitjulu story and triggered the NT Intervention. Though there's still a couple of ABC reporters I consider friends I swore off all collaboration with ABC journalism, though I've recently broken that commitment at the urging of some of my activist colleagues.
Nah! Wrong rag. Nation Review was a left wing weekly featuring people like Mungo McCallum, Bob Ellis, Patrick Cook and Leunig. And others, mind you I'm thinking more of the '70s in Sydney.
Hmm, maybe I should have read it.
I used to enjoy listening to Mungo on 2JJ and usually like Leunig cartoons. Patrick Cook, of course, did the often excellent cartoon on the back page of the National Times. As for Ellis, he was always all over the shop but I love an entertaining ratbag. There's something very 'Sydney' about that style.