Geoffrey Luck
Geoffrey Luck
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"The druids were no match for the swarming New Age revellers. Not even hippies take them seriously"
Jul 21 2025
32 mins
Every law student knows of the snail in the ginger beer and how it led to a new tort of negligence. Little known is Queensland's link to that landmark of British jurisprudence
May 23 2025
36 mins
Progress is a funny thing. Some 60 years ago, the ABC radio soap operaBlue Hills tackled the same issues of racial identity that landed Andrew Bolt in so much trouble
May 09 2024
6 mins
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The news came this morning that Geoffrey Luck, contributor and dear friend of Quadrant, had passed away in the night. Republished from 2014 is his account as a novice aviator of a Gypsy Moth's encounter with powerlines, an incident that very nearly the robbed the world of a lauded ABC journalist and, later, a frequent critic of his former employer. Geoff, you are missed already
Dec 22 2021
19 mins
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Complain about a nakedly biased report -- in this instance the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse -- and the ABC's complaints unit will invest considerable effort in explaining why black is white, up is down and why a foreign correspondent's editorialising is actually straight-bat reporting
Dec 16 2021
5 mins
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Little known these days and out of print, 'Chain of Darkness' is nevertheless a book worth tracking down. An acidic roman-à-clef inspired by a gifted journalist's stint with the ABC in the early days of TV news, it will lead readers to an unavoidable conclusion: then as now, the national broadcaster was a poorly managed dysfunctional mess, just in a different way
Jun 09 2021
14 mins
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The takeover battle for Vital Harvest Trust, a primary producer sought by Macquarie and subsequent bidders, kicked off with a per-share offer of $1, which an independent appraiser reckoned was about right. Since then the bids have soared -- a reminder that the declaration of an offer being in shareholders' best interests may be nothing of the kind
Apr 30 2021
3 mins
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The urbane, charming and well-heeled Vincenzo Muccioli was generally reckoned something of a saint for his work with Italy's drug addicts. Then the battered corpse of a recovering junkie turned up in a village tip. It soon emerged that things at his sprawling San Patrignano rehab centre were nothing like what they seemed
Dec 24 2020
13 mins
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A team of cyber-security analysts, all with backgrounds in defence and national security, has conducted a court-authorised forensic examination of voting machines in Michigan's Antrim County. The conclusion: the Dominion voting machines don't merely allow fraud, they are specifically designed to facilitate it
Dec 15 2020
5 mins
