Author Archives: Teresa

my vim & vigour

Of all the weeks in all the weeks of this year, why this week? Why was my vim & vigour so low? Beginning the week with a broken 4-hours of sleep didn’t help. I could have done a lot more if my vim & vigour was at even a reasonable level. A voice (a very [...]

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In the land of newsqueens

Three days ago I came to News Queensland. It’s a wide and bustling but friendly land. I will only have time to navigate part of this land. But that’s okay. I’m staying in the Courier-Mail area. Like going France for two weeks and never leaving Paris. But who wants to see a whole country express [...]

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Goodbye to Investigative Journalism and the ‘h’ in Verandah LINDA BRADY INTERVIEW

Many moons ago, a young, adventurous journalism graduate from Rockhampton set off to see the world. First stop, an internship in Canberra’s corridors of power, was disappointing. “The whole political reporting gig left me cold. “It was such a pretentious and contrived piece of theatre and the reporters took themselves far too seriously.” So she [...]

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and the audience is going home

Thanks to Zane for being so nice, so helpful and patient. Thanks to Yvonne for giving me some work and offering to give feedback – I wish I’d approached you sooner. Thanks to Linda for the interesting ‘chat’. Thanks to Geoff for being himself. Thanks to Paul for…I’m not sure what for…but thanks. Thanks to [...]

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the lights are coming on

Monday I was still stumbling around. I had a great story idea. Funny! Weird! Entertaining! I loved it. A Chinese man had a beauty treatment. Got into a bath of eels (they are meant to eat off dead skin). A tiny one wriggled up into his penis and he had to go to hospital where [...]

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