Firefly Episode Guide
1. Serenity After a flashback to Zoe's and Mal's days in the wars six years previous, we cut to the modern day where the Serenity crew is running a salvage…
Deep Space Nine – Season 7
DEEP SPACE NINE Season 7:October 3, 1998 - May 31, 1999 151. Images in the Sand Three months after a possessed Gul Dukat killed Jadzia Dax and sealed the wormhole,…
First cell phones arrive in Darwin
Sometimes it appears that mobile phones have been with us always, yet in 1988 the arrival of a cellular phone network in Darwin was big news. Talent: Ray Nugent,…
Journalist of the year 1987
In 1987, primarily through a body of work surrounding the world heritage listing of Kakadu National Park, I was the joint winner of the Electronic Journalist of the Year award…
Pine Gap protests
In 1987, the lease on the satellite monitoring base, Pine Gap, near Alice Springs was up for re-signing by the Federal Government. In the days leading up to the leases…
Barra classic
It wouldn't be the Top End without a bit of barramundi fishing. While a keen fisherman myself, in 1987 I covered the annual Barra Classic, on its return to Corroboree…
INXS newser
One of the benefits of working in smaller TV newsrooms is that you do get to do a bit of everything. In August 1987, I was heading for an early…
Victoria River murder
In June 1987 I was asked to take a camera crew and helicopter to Victoria River to cover the search for two Western Australian fishermen who had gone missing. The…
Gurig National Park
Sometimes as a reporter you get to go to those beautiful, out-of-the-way places most only dream about. One of these is Coburg Peninsula, the original European settlement in the Top…
Manbulloo mangoes
One of the countries largest mango plantations was established on Manbullo station. The plan: to take advantage of an earlier growing season to get mangoes on supermarket shelves before the…