Book chapter
The tyranny of distance revisited
The Fuss that Never Ended: Essays on the Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey, pp.28-38
Melbourne University Press
2003
Abstract
At the beginning of 1950 I was the editor of the pelican, the student newspaper for the University of Western Australia. At one time I had Rolf Harris for my cartoonist and John Stone for my business manager. I used to boast of this, until someone remarked that it would have been better for Australia if I had used John Stone as my cartoonist and Rolf Harris as the business manager. At the time it occurred to me that a national conference of student editors would be a good idea, and an approach was made through the National Union of Australian University Students to host such a conference in Perth. The response was uneqivocal. Yes, it was a good idea to hold a conference of editors, but I must be crazy if I thought the others would come all the way to Perth. Instead the conference would take place in Melbourne. As I had never been to Melbourne, and had secretly hoped that some such outcome would eventuate, I readily agreed. So it was that in May 1950 I met Geoffrey Blainey for the first time, then co-editor of the University of Melbourne's Farrago. He said that he couldn't quite see the necessity for the conference; I replied that he would if he lived in perth. This was our first, rather unlikely, exchance on the subject of 'the tyranny of distance'.
Details
- Title
- The tyranny of distance revisited
- Authors/Creators
- G. Bolton (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- D. Gare (Editor)G. Bolton (Editor)S. Macintyre (Editor)T. Stannage (Editor)
- Publication Details
- The Fuss that Never Ended: Essays on the Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey, pp.28-38
- Publisher
- Melbourne University Press; Carlton, VIC
- Identifiers
- 991005545106207891
- Copyright
- 2003 Melbourne University Publishing
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Vice Chancellery
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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