It's Sunday night, I'm in Wagga Wagga and I'm killing time, ahead of catching the XPT back to Sydney. Though I've gone first class on travel, I've booked economy for accommodation for my brief visit back to Wagga. I've been staying at Romano's. Co-incidentally, it's the place where I stayed for my first week in … Continue reading Twenty-Four Hours in Wagga Wagga
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Wagga Wagga aka Wagga is a city of around 60,000 people in Southern NSW. I lived there for over three years, from the end of 1991 to the beginning of 1995. I have many fond memories of my time there.
Having worked as a journalist and broadcaster for over thirty years, I've got to know a LOT of politicians. In my view, some of them have been very good people, and some of them have been arseholes. On one side of politics, I've had the son a politician threaten me with physical violence over a … Continue reading The Boy from Boree Creek
Having spent a few years in the early 1990s, living in Wagga Wagga, I was well aware of the story of Captain Moonlite, the bushranger, and the hold-up at nearby Wantabadgery Station in 1879. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Moonlite What I wasn't aware of until the mid 1990s, was the suggestion he had been involved in a same-sex relationship … Continue reading Captain Moonlite and James Nesbitt
A couple of years ago, I wrote the following: Twenty five years ago (or thereabouts) I remember attending the National Choral Championships in Wagga Wagga. Although it sounds fairly tame, the championship organisers found themselves the subject of national media interest, as they asked the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir to change their name to … Continue reading The Eastern Suburbs G&L Choir
Though I can't be sure of the exact date, it was sometime in February 1988 (thirty years ago) when I got my first full time "paid job" in radio, working at 2WEB, Bourke. Prior to that, I was a volunteer at 2NCR-FM, Lismore (since 1978), and worked as the phone answerer for Saturday nights requests … Continue reading The Passing Of Time
"Colin would have loved this show", my friend Michaela noted as we enjoyed a half-time drink at "Ruthless - The Musical" at Sydney's Seymour Theatre tonight. The show was well acted, well sung, it was camp, and it was fun, but it was also deadly serious. It was the kind of show Colin and I … Continue reading Toast to Colin Anderson