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Newcastle Herald staff picnic December 12, 1936

A gallery of workplace photos: Part 1

It's not so fashionable these days, it seems, but there was a time when group photographs of people at their workplaces were standard fare. Here is a gallery of workplace photos, mostly from Newcastle, NSW. A staff photo from Newcastle's BHP steelworks in 1935 - the company's jubilee year. The photo came from Mrs Jan Collins, whose mother, Esme Moodie, is in the picture. Esme married Christopher Windsor in 1933, but kept her maiden name at work. She left work in 1936 to raise her family. Her husband was a crane driver at BHP's open hearth…

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Scomo has lost his marbles

You would have to be an idiot to do what Scomo did yesterday. Our cardboard cut-out alleged prime minister used a press conference on the subject of serious sexual misconduct by male Liberal Party staffers in Parliament House to attack journalists for asking questions. That’s not the idiotic bit. That’s just standard Scomo: avoid the question, walk away, bluff and bluster. The idiotic part was where he accused journalists working for the Augean Murdoch news stable of “sitting in glass houses”. The alleged prime minister alleged that News Limited’s Sky News outfit was facing its own…

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In Dylan Thomas’ town, 1986

I wrote this piece back in 1986 or 1987, after a visit to the British Isles with my friend and fellow journalist Scott Bevan. It's obviously out of date, and many of the observations I made at the time are probably unfair or incorrect. But it brings back nice memories, so I'll place it here. It happened, like all the best things, completely by chance. We had been driving almost all day; from the English-Welsh border town of Chepstow, along some of the most bewildering motorways in all Britain, through shirtsleeved Cardiff, past the tragic industrial…

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