Greg Thomson
Greg Thomson is editor-in-chief of Western Australia’s Community Newspaper Group, a company part-owned by News Limited and The West Australian, which publishes 17 suburban newspapers covering the length and breadth of Perth from Wanneroo in the city’s north to Mandurah in the south.
Mr Thomson relocated to Perth from the Northern Territory three years ago, and is a former managing editor of The Centralian Advocate in Alice Springs, having spent most of his journalistic career as a reporter and Chief of Staff with the Northern Territory News in Darwin.
Articles by Greg Thomson
He drills. He earns. He spends. He doesn’t apologise
He’s a self-confessed “cashed-up bogan” earning $800 a day or more than $208,000 a year in Western Australia’s booming mining…... Read more
The fun police make it to the final frontier
I am trying hard not to sound like a grumpy old man well before my time, but what is it…... Read more
Why Rudd should not be the Foreign Minister
It doesn’t wash that high profile Western Australian politician Stephen Smith would be happy to forego the plum foreign affairs…... Read more
The friction where asylum seekers meet unwilling hosts
I’m guessing that former prime minister Malcolm Fraser and Western Australian woman Jo Ruprecht wouldn’t agree on much when it…... Read more
Anger mounting against Rudd in the wild west
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave no quarter, nor was any apparently sought, when he strode before the Perth Press Club…... Read more
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marley says:
I'm one of the older ones, so I've certainly seen a few changes in my time. When I started school I learned to write with a nib pen, dipped in an inkwell (no, I'm not kidding). My mother became a dab hand at getting inkstains out of my clothes. Flicking ink at one another in the classroom was an essential… [read more]From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics
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