Everywhere you turn, it seems, those at
the helm of various companies can be heard complaining about the amount of time it takes to find someone right for job X or for position Y.
At
various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need
of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes
of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images
of Australia, The Legend
of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television,
helmed commercials for a vast array
of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across
various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia
of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.
I have likely purchased more shares
of MEG than you ever have, yet as an owner
of the
Company I was not allowed to ask pertinent questions regarding MEG's operational and financing strategies simply because I have accurately pointed out the
various failures you have
helmed while at Media General.