Joe Aston
As a young child, Joe Aston was moved to Hobart, Tasmania, where he initially lived on the sweeping grounds of the state’s most notorious asylum. After finishing high school there, Joe made a half-hearted stab at a law degree and his foray into student politics ended badly after he ran in student union elections for the position of queer officer while refusing to confirm or deny his sexuality. He then wisely returned to Sydney and studied communication at UTS.
Joe has also worked as an adviser to several Liberal politicians, including MP Bruce Baird and the federal workplace minister Joe Hockey. During this time he attended many chook raffles and never once won.
After being unkindly turfed out of a job at the 2007 election, Joe went to work as a spokesman for Qantas where he chased flight attendants and broke world records for inflight champagne consumption while cavorting around the globe on staff travel benefits.
In November 2009, Joe joined the Sydney office of public affairs firm CPR where he mainly spends his time thinking about flight attendants and First class champagne.
His inkprint as a journalist includes stints as a feature writer for GQ Australia and Singapore’s August Man magazine. For several years, Joe has also been 90 per cent finished his first book – a tome that began as a polemic on the one child policy and mutated into a romance novel set in the Xing Dynasty. Its latest manifestation is best described as a cross between A Farewell to Arms and Green Eggs and Ham.
He still refuses to confirm or deny his sexuality.
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