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An Age newspaper investigation summarised what had happened. [18] In May 2010, the Senate of Australia officially recognised the national significance of the Windsor Hotel. [19] Further permits from the State Government body Heritage Victoria were not resolved until January 2012, [20] and this delay meant the 2010 planning permit would lapse.
Michael Leunig (born 2 June 1945), typically referred to as Leunig (his signature on his cartoons), is an Australian cartoonist.His works include The Curly Pyjama Letters, cartoon books The Essential Leunig, The Wayward Leunig, The Stick, Goatperson, Short Notes from the Long History of Happiness and Curly Verse, among others and The Lot, a compilation of his 'Curly World' newspaper columns.
Newsday was an afternoon daily newspaper published by David Syme from 30 September 1969, designed to compete with the Melbourne Herald, then selling around 500,000 a day. [1] Its first editor was Tim Hewat, but when it ran into circulation trouble Graham Perkin was drafted to try to save it. He spent several months editing both The Age and Newsday.
Michael Gawenda (born 1947) is an Australian journalist and was editor of The Age from 1997 to 2004. He was appointed inaugural Director of the Centre for Advanced Journalism at the University of Melbourne, launched in 2008.
Three notable ones were Fox Comics, which began in Melbourne in 1985 and lasted for five years and 26 issues. Phantastique from Sydney in 1986 lasted only four issues, as it was in the style of Underground comix but with mainstream distribution – it generated national publicity from opponents Fred Nile and John Laws .
Nick McKenzie is an Australian investigative journalist. He has won 14 [1] Walkley Awards, [2] [3] been twice [1] named the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year [4] [5] and also received the Kennedy Award for Journalist of the Year in 2020 [6] [7] and 2022.
1 February – Medicare comes into effect in Australia. [5] 2 February – Melbourne newspaper The Age publishes phone taps incriminating an unknown judge. [6] 14 February – Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney. [7]
Australia's first T-bar lift was installed on Township Hill in 1957, but in 1978, Kiandra's ski lift operations re-located permanently to nearby Mount Selwyn (Selwyn Snowfields). [28] Selwyn is the most northerly of Australia's ski resorts with a base elevation of 1492 m and a top elevation of 1614 m.