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Article Excerpt
FOR A COUPLE of years back in the 1970s, I contributed a column to the Australian newspaper, and then (after an interval) to the Melbourne Age. There, after some months, a new editor asked me to perform weekly, because he "just didn't fancy" fortnightly columns. I knew what he meant: in a daily newspaper, a weekly column seems to make sense, and so does a monthly one: fortnightly (though it's hard to explain) rather resembles Mr Bossom MP, the new Conservative member who took his seat in the Commons under Winston Churchill. "Curious name," rumbled Winston, when they were introduced. "Neither one thing nor the other."
After more than seven years without a single deadline missed, the Age gave me the sack: something to do, I was told, with Prime Minister Keating not being amused by something I had written.
So in September 1993 I was grateful that Quadrant's then editor, Robert Manne, picked me up from, so to speak, the journalistic gutter, and installed me where I still cling to existence as a monthly columnist.
Monthly deadlines set a problem of their own. Today is September 29, and my copy must be filed within...
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