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Minefields : a life in the news game / Hugh Riminton.
Publication details: Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2017.Description: 435 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780733638763
- 0733638767
- 070.4332092 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 070.433 RIM | Available | 066925 |
Total reserves: 0
Includes index.
Hugh Riminton was a small-town New Zealand teenager with a possible drinking problem and a job cleaning rat cages at an animal lab when a chance meeting with a radio news director changed his life. The news man took a chance on him and, at 17, Riminton became a cadet reporter. On the strength of a two line job ad in a Perth newspaper he escaped to Australia. was the time of Hawkie, Bondy and.
