Pink shirts and pig ignorance on the NSW North Coast

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Sometimes it is hard to decide whether this The Daily Examiner journalist is simply obeying an editorial direction to create controversy at any price or if he actually is as developmentally delayed as his language suggests.

Like other ugly paper chauvinists in the media Graham Orams is careful to give himself what he obviously believes is a get-out-of-gaol-free ticket by telling the world that women deserve better, as he flaunts what he likes to refer to as my raw and unshakable masculinity (pause for readers to lift right hand and signal with little finger).

The opinion piece above appeared on page 11 in last Thursday's issue of this regional paper. Needless to say its editor is still Peter Chapman.

Newspaper porkies for sale in the Clarence Valley

Oh dear, The Daily Examiner editor is at it once more.

On Tuesday 30 June 2009 he proclaimed he never did it - yet again.

Forgetting established chronology (the first published article appeared on 11 June and the first letter some four or five days later) he blames the Grafton-based APN newspaper's readers.

Unfortunately for Peter Chapman his previous words and those of the newspaper's journalists live on and show the heavy-handed, hearsay-ridden attempt to link crime, Beachside, Ngaru Village and "men of aboriginal appearance" as well as "Young people running around the streets staging break and enters and smashing property".

Here are two of those The Daily Examiner articles from 11 June and 12 June 2009:

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What a difference a change of editor makes

Under former editor Peter Chapman The Daily Examiner at times indulged in barely concealed Koori bashing, so this opinion piece by new editor David Bancroft was a welcome read last Wednesday:

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Original The Daily Examiner article about young Kaleesha Morris (pictured) Grafton teen a future PM? by journalist Marsha Neville on 16 September 2009.

A little Ginger Meggs grafitti

Opened up the local rag to what's become the most important page since Chapman turned it into an ersatz Tele and there lurked the background grafitti within Ginger Meggs:

Why experiment on animals when there's so many politicians around?

Ah Ginge, when all else fails you remind me that everything has its funny side.

Daily Examiner editor spits the dummy as he grabs his hat and coat

The Daily Examiner, 4 August 2009

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Editor Peter Chapman takes a swipe at the noisy minority as he prepares to leave The Daily Examiner for Queensland's The Fraser Coast Chronicle, after less than 15 months in the Clarence Valley.

Which possibly makes him the shortest-term editor but one The Daily Examiner has ever had in its 150 year history.

In November 2008 Peter gave a talk to Grafton U3A which indicated that he has worked on at least thirteen different print and television media outlets since the early 1970s, as well as for approximately four sporting bodies.

Blistering barnacles, Mr. Editor!

Letter to The Daily Examiner editor, Peter Chapman, published on 25 June 2009.

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Brave young Maree Jay takes on the ugly face of Australian journalism at The Daily Examiner
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Celebrate nature at Jeff Keyes 'award winning property on Sunday 23 September 2012

A Celebration of Nature

From 9.30 a.m. on Sunday 23^rd September

On Sunday 23rd September Jeff Keyes,

winner of Clarence Valley Council's 2012 Individual Sustainability Award,
will be hosting a celebration of nature at his property "Urimberra",

 the Sportsman Creek Conservation Area

Activities/displays include

·     a nature walk led by Jeff Keyes and John Edwards (starting at 11 a.m.)

·     nature education activities for children, organised by Sharon Lehman, Coordinator of Clarence Valley Conservation in Action - the CIA

·     a photographic exhibition of flora and fauna found on the property (around 320 of the approximate 600 species identified on the property)

·     a display of rustic furniture made on the property by Jeff Keyes

·     landscape paintings by Peter Chapman

·     up-to-date information on the coal seam gas industry plus a screening of a DVD on the Queensland CSG industry

The starting time for the celebration is 9.30 a.m.   Tea and coffee will be provided.  Bring snacks and a picnic lunch.

Everyone is welcome to this celebration.

 Directions:

The 50 ha wildlife refuge is at 2954 Summerland Way, Dilkoon, 20.6 km north of the Blue Goose Inn at Junction Hill, 750 m. north of Dilkoon Creek bridge and 1.3 km south of Sportsmans Creek.

For further information:

Contact Jeff Keyes on 0417 403606 or Stan Mussared on 66449309.

The celebration is coordinated by the Clarence Valley Conservation Coalition and the Clarence Environment Centre