As Channel 10 newsreader Narelda Jacobs read the news live on-air that her fellow employee Jessie Baird had been murdered in an apparent love triangle, tears welling in her eyes […]
Read MoreA life well lived
Posing a tribute to the life and times of Catherina van der Linden, who has died at 111, one is surely perplexed by her persisting physical and intellectual agility when […]
Read MoreLang’s legacy can be seen on skyline
The death of billionaire builder Lang Walker should surely be lamented by Sydney. His contribution to Sydney skylines was indeed momentous and yet, his avoidance of unnecessary publicity meant that […]
Read MorePolice Honoured
It is highly appropriate on the first anniversary of the Wieambilla massacre that the names of Police constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow and civilian Alan Dare are again in […]
Read MoreCruel Irony
The three noble marines, killed in service while training in a harsh landscape in the friendliest nation on the earth surely proves that sometimes warfare has cruel irony. (Corps ‘deeply […]
Read MoreHunter tragedy
The beautiful Hunter Valley landscape has always been utilised for amazing wedding photos, optimising our glorious weather for a lifelong montage of gorgeous couples, photographed against a backdrop of blue […]
Read MoreBarry was almost too close for comfort
While stage curtains fall to end the show and the audience is sent packing, the sudden death of Barry Humphries surely has an encore of echoing applause transcending up high […]
Read MoreTributes to a Tele Letters favourite
While perhaps an exception, having written my first published Letter to the Editor in my teens, there is little doubt that those currently engaged in this fun enterprise are a […]
Read MoreTragedy for our thin blue line
As normal radio broadcasting at 1030pm was interrupted for an emergency press conference in Brisbane with the police commissioner, the news was not going to be good. Tragically, our worst […]
Read MoreFarewell to a true hero
To die peacefully is surely a God-given blessing, but the prospects of doing so must be long-odds when one’s wartime battles included the trenches of Tobruk during a 241-day siege […]
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