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...colleagues. Sporting interests? You bet: orienteering and rogaining, activities that allow him to indulge his penchant for jogging in garish training apparel. That's Creaser's regular life. But for about a fortnight in the middle of every year this acute, vital 52-year-old breaks out, leaving the Canberra winter to join a team of scientists on the annual dig at Riversleigh, Australia's most precious treasure trove of fossils...
...with. Expletives are occasionally uttered with quiet vehemence. "Let's get this show on the road," he says loudly. Around him the paper's most senior production editors - a team known as the backbench - are assessing the last few pieces filed for tomorrow's paper by journalists from Cairns, Canberra or a few desks away, "tasting" them for tone and logic before flicking them over to the news sub-editors. Words must be cut, queried, inserted or rearranged. Headlines must sing and sentences gleam. Or as much as is possible before the deadline pounces. "Page one ? page four ? page three...
...Like any successful newsroom, the Australian's must be a mix of scavenger, sage and spectator, and a newspaper which claims the whole continent as its beat needs to understand sleepy Cairns just as well as it does the Canberra political hothouse. In the daily search for the obvious and the obscure, the paper's 60 news journalists, including 10 foreign correspondents, are the forward scouts. Ideas, tip-offs, leads and hunches start rolling in as Whittaker's morning gathers speed. Near him pictorial editor Paul Burston is working out assignments for the paper's 25 photographers around the country...
...list of the news section's contents is sketched out. The trade story is still developing, and Mitchell weighs in with his contacts, putting in a few calls to Labor Party people. But today, even a message from this media heavyweight won't open doors in Canberra. "All the pricks rang back this morning. I think that's a concerted 'no comment,' " he says with a grin the next...
...trouble." Harvey rings back to confirm the sentence involves a donation to charity. "This has got it all," Whittaker tells her. "We have to go gang-busters on this." Within minutes a local reporter is assigned to visit the old Sydney address of one of the Israelis, while the Canberra bureau starts chasing a response from Australian authorities. Harvey, meanwhile, will still be going gangbusters at two the next morning when, after filing several front-page pieces on the diplomatic melee, she has to finish another feature...