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Endgame for a plague species?

Doomsday messages are thick on the ground these days. And no wonder. While people argue about whether continuing to alter the composition of the atmosphere is harmful or not, undeniable damage is piling up all around. The latest UN report on biodiversity, with its sombre warning of millions more species extinctions on the way, is just the latest signpost on a long bad road. Human activity is stripping the globe of its remaining forests at a rapid rate. The oceans have been mined of much of their living inhabitants and are still being used as sewers…

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Read more about the article Clangers. Some of my printed errors.
No, the punt is not going to Stockton.

Clangers. Some of my printed errors.

One problem with publishing books is that your errors stay around a long time. You can make a mistake on radio and with luck it's gone and forgotten in a day or two. Even a newspaper isn't so bad: an error will plague you for a week or so and then - unless you are being sued over it - the pain goes away. Books are different. They have a long shelf-life (boom boom!) and so when you make mistakes in books they hang around for ages. And publishing corrections is pretty difficult. You can fix…

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Jean Dunbar (right) and another worker in Lysaght's Owen Gun shop in Newcastle

When Mum made guns for Aussie soldiers

"Oh my God, that's my Mum!" I was showing the general manager of The Newcastle Herald, Julie Ainsworth, a proof copy of our 2011 book, Recovered Memories, which contained many rare photographs taken around the Newcastle area during World War 2. Julie was flicking through the pages, making polite noises and nodding approval, when suddenly she spotted her mother in a picture. "That's my mother, Jean Dunbar, and she's working in the Owen Gun shop at Lysaght's in Newcastle." Julie declared. It was a wonderful insight into a photo about which I knew little - beyond…

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