BENEATH THE COVERS: CONCEPTION TO BIRTH.
Like most fathers planning the conception of their first-born, my ideas for a new magazine were created when I was young and foolish. Now I am old and foolish, but I can see now when looking back that even for the foreplay stage I had not chosen the best time. It came just after a dreadful experience when I was trying to make a living as a freelance journalist. Trying to do that in Australia is as easy as using a telephoto lens to take a sharp handheld photograph at ¼ second and f2.0.
Giving me the shakes was the fact that I had a wife and two small children to support. Freelancing was very glam in Europe, but none too easy in Australia. There were two main newspaper groups and they just about owned all the press. But if your contribution appeared in one newspaper group and then, to
