My background: 12 years at the Sydney Morning Herald as a journalist (employed as a sub-editor, occasional writing). Worked as a journalist over 30 years after finishing a B. Arts Journalism major.
Started as a cadet in weekly local newspapers, moved to Queensland on a Daily newspaper, then off to Sydney for weekly local newspapers/national magazines. Went to London and freelanced on top mags (Tatler, Harpers and Queen, Esquire) then Features editor at .net magazine for nearly five years. Back to Sydney at the Sydney Morning Herald for 12 years. Freelance gigging jobs since then to now, mostly Ministerial Correspondence for State Govt agencies or editing Govt websites.
Other freelance work includes top women’s magazines, Bupa newsletters for aged care homes in crisis, and Allianz Insurance product copywriting.
Please contact me if you’d like excerpts of recent work or social media.
My YouTube channel.
Bupa Aged care home newsletters
(NB: these newsletters go through a 6-stage approval process and does not return to me, so some errors are introduced.)
Bupa Aged Care Home newsletter 1
Bupa Aged Care Home newsletter 2
Bupa Aged Care Home newsletter 3
Bupa Aged Care Home newsletter 4
Allianz Insurance
World-wide anti-obesity strategies focus on the bottom line
10 life lessons from The Voice Australia
The reality of dating: how to find your next partner
Cute and cuddly: our favourite pets on social media
What’s on around Australia — October
5 weird cars you can’t help but love
Word of mouth still triumphs as most trusted way to advertise
6 tips on how to hire the best removalists
Rental properties: water efficiency and passing on usage charges
Coping with the death of a loved one
5 maintenance tips for landlords
Window safety: locks save toddlers
Sydney Morning Herald stories
Make your own outfits (Sydney Morning Herald)
Inside the world of hardcore Australian ABBA fans (Sydney Morning Herald)
Jim Waley – interview with the newsreader/broadcaster (Sydney Morning Herald)
Power to the people: online voting – will it ever happen on a huge scale? (Sydney Morning Herald)
Keep your fingers to yourself: my stint as a temping secretary at the Perth Police Headquarters in the CIB (Criminal Investigations Bureau). (Sydney Morning Herald)
The chill factor: how to imagine you’re a tree and let your cares slip away. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Living in the 70s: the halcyon days when people wore platform soles and hot pants – without irony. (Sydney Morning Herald)
International masters of online study: “Face-to-face classes usually suffer from a few dominant personalities, time pressure and being too full. Online class interaction is much more active and engaged.” (Sydney Morning Herald)
Drastic shortfall of building apprentices: “We need 40,000 more.” By next year. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Church of Scientology personality test. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Let’s talk about ASX: finance. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Gimme some loving: dating. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Hostess with the mostest: how to host a party. (Sydney Morning Herald)
In your wildest dreams: dream analysis.
(Sydney Morning Herald)
Running scared: Weird Ghost and History Tour of Sydney. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Back in Rogue: nightclub review. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Kinsey movie review: the famous sex researcher. (Sydney Morning Herald.)
Sun-Herald stories
Books reviews: Creating Magic (Managing Disneyland); Dating Makes You Want To Die; Croc (Australian crocodile true stories).
How to get out of a burning house alive: “Sheree grabbed the kids and the phone and ran out of the house.”
NSW Fire Commissioner Greg Mullins speaks about fire safety (Sun-Herald)
My “Notable people” stories
Video interview with former Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Two interviews with former Prime Minister John Howard.
Door-knocking with former NSW Premier Nick Greiner.
Had lunch with renowned corporate fugitive Christopher Skase (The Maryborough Chronicle).
I attended a barbecue at Joh and Flo’s peanut farm in Kingaroy, Queensland, and ate some of Flo’s famous pumpkin scones. I later interviewed Flo, who, like her Premier of Queensland husband, had very conservative and traditional views. (Maryborough Chronicle)
My favourite stories
I love this one: The night The Life of Brian was dropped from the TV schedule
Plenty of in-depth feature stories at my Internet blog: .net feature stories
Article in Rolling Stone: An encounter with ABBA in Sweden (February, 1996). And here’s a link to several of my articles about ABBA in Australia.
Queer Anarchists – Resisting assimilation freakery while smashing the State.
“You’ve desecrated my Jesus Statue!” Queer Anarchist artist versus Traditional Catholics in the Battle of Beliefs.
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