Year: 2012

Leigh Dayton, Science Journalist

By John Stapleton This piece, about the treatment of science writer Leigh Dayton on the national broadsheet The Australian, was originally written as part of Terror in Australia: Worker’s Paradise Lost. It did not fit into the final shape of the book, and so is reproduced separately here: If there was one incident that illustrated […]

Thai rivals unite over insurgency, The Australian, 15 September, 2012

Thai soldiers in Pattani in 2011. Photo Credit: AFP. Not in original story.   http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/thai-rivals-unite-over-insurgency/story-e6frg6so-1226474394277 Thai rivals unite over insurgency JOHN STAPLETON, BANGKOK THE AUSTRALIAN SEPTEMBER 15, 2012 12:00AM Print Save for later ON Tuesday, political foes Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra of the so-called Red Shirts faction and the opposition leader, deposed prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of […]

Agent Orange, the Cleanup Begins, The Australian, 5 August, 2012

Agent Orange clean-up, 37 years on Stapleton, John. Weekend Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 04 Aug 2012: 11. Full text Abstract/Details Show highlighting Abstract TranslateAbstract The historic $US450 million ($429m) amelioration effort to destroy the chemicals remaining in the environment and treat those suffering from disabilities begins on Thursday at Vietnam’s worst affected site — the former US military base and now bustling airport of Da […]

In Memoriam, Chris Evans, Bangkok, 2012.

By John Stapleton Bangkok is a city full of expats, and Chris Evans, who had been there for decades living both the high life and the low life, from being one of the city’s most sought after male escorts, at a time when European escorts were highly sought after in the city of black-eyed angels, […]

Bill Leak and Alan Pryke, from Hunting the Famous. 2012.

By John Stapleton In an adroit move The Australian picked up the country’s best known cartoonist Bill Leak from The Sydney Morning Herald at more or less the same time I made the shift to the Evil Empire, as News Limited was commonly nicknamed. Bill had won every major award an Australian cartoonist can win, […]

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