While seeking medical advice in the Townsville Hospital, the crusty waterfront roundsman unexpectedly stumbled upon a story into which the ABC bashing brigade would love to get their vampire teeth.
In involves a prominent ABC presenter being caught ogling a woman who had been charged with indecent exposure . Phew ! Just imagine what the Daily Telegraph , The Australian , the Coalition troglodytes , Gerard , Kenny , Bolt , The Parrot and others will do with this titillating expose once it is posted ?
The name of this lefty ABC celebrity caught in an embarrassing situation ? Don't be impatient . Did I mention that he had been sprung by a nun ? No , sorry -really got you interested now .
Background to the scoop is that whenever the sickly S(h)ipping Reporter enters the Townsville Hospital main entrance , he makes a bee line to the books on sale by the helpful volunteer ladies . On his latest visit, three great non-fiction finds were bought , one The Court Reporter , by another professional ABC reporter, Jamelle Wells , published by ABC Books , this year . As the nautical scribe is an old media hand, he enjoyed reading how she got into journalism and covered many interesting court cases.
Brace yourself for the denouement . In a great anecdote , which reveals the kind of people who work for the ABC , she told how ABC News Channel presenter Joe O'Brien remembered the first court case he attended during work experience at the above Innisfail Advocate , Queensland, in 1983. It involved a stripper who had come to town and got too much of her gear off in public , charged with indecent exposure.
In Year 10 at the time , he went out the front steps of the courthouse with the media who were taking pictures of her standing near a column . One of his teachers , a nun , happened by and asked him if he was enjoying his work experience . Yes, sister , was his enthusiastic reply .
SURPRISE FOLLOW UP
No sooner had the above piece of golden prose been posted, than through the Little Darwin door was delivered a packet from the Queen of the Jungle who is cleaning out her diverse library. In it was the l983 Volume 1, Number 1 copy of UP NORTH Queensland magazine .
This year, of course, was the one in which schoolboy Joe O'Brien eyed the naughty stripper outside the Innisfail Courthouse . Leafing through the magazine , it is hard to understand why she was charged with indecent exposure as there are several photographs of topless girls in advertisements.
SURPRISE FOLLOW UP
No sooner had the above piece of golden prose been posted, than through the Little Darwin door was delivered a packet from the Queen of the Jungle who is cleaning out her diverse library. In it was the l983 Volume 1, Number 1 copy of UP NORTH Queensland magazine .
This year, of course, was the one in which schoolboy Joe O'Brien eyed the naughty stripper outside the Innisfail Courthouse . Leafing through the magazine , it is hard to understand why she was charged with indecent exposure as there are several photographs of topless girls in advertisements.
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Topless girls are featured standing on the bow of a yacht called Bacchus off Airlie Beach and a naked nymph is silhouetted in an Air Queensland advertisement .
