Sometimes it appears that mobile phones have been with us always, yet in 1988 the…
Category: ABC-TV
Work done for ABC TV primarily in the 1980s.
Journalist of the year 1987
In 1987, primarily through a body of work surrounding the world heritage listing of Kakadu…
Pine Gap protests
In 1987, the lease on the satellite monitoring base, Pine Gap, near Alice Springs was…
Barra classic
It wouldn’t be the Top End without a bit of barramundi fishing. While a keen…
INXS newser
One of the benefits of working in smaller TV newsrooms is that you do get…
Victoria River murder
In June 1987 I was asked to take a camera crew and helicopter to Victoria…
Gurig National Park
Sometimes as a reporter you get to go to those beautiful, out-of-the-way places most only…
Manbulloo mangoes
One of the countries largest mango plantations was established on Manbullo station. The plan: to…
Wildlife on Woolner Station
While in the Top End I came across a number of cattle properties which were…
Pig-nosed turtles returned to wild
Growing up in the bush I’ve always enjoyed doing stories on wildlife. In this case…