Cancer headline: StateHealth Minister Jim McGinty points out that the words between quotation marks in the headline Cancer services ‘close to collapse’ (page 1, August 20) were our interpretation and were not included in the Barton report, which was the source of the story. The Barton report, commissioned by the Cancer Council, said cancer treatment [...]
Birdbrains: We swiftly swallowed the information supplied to us which described a photo of a bird in flight as a Rottnest Island Sparrow (The science of fine photography, page 19, August 16). As any eagle-eyed ornithologist would attest it was, of course, the much less rare Welcome Sparrow. Report an error
An English news agency report from London last week audaciously claimed one of the great Aussie war characters as one of their own (Great Escape hero rejected Hollywood’s version of tale, page 18, August 8). The 1963 film The Great Escape was an adaptation of the best-selling autobiography by Paul Brickhill about the breakout from [...]
Old Sparky: The compilers and suppliers of our On This Day column deserve to learn a lot more about electric execution. The recidivist column wrongly stated that the first electric chair execution took place on July 7, 1890. In fact, it was Wednesday, August 6, 1890 in New York – ironically then known as The [...]
Winery sale: A report and headline in the State edition has upset South-West winemakers Marian and Kevin Squance (Vintners seek to cut and run as they can’t keep up with the big boys, page 3, June 26). The pioneering Margaret River wine couple have decided to sell their Willespie winery for retirement and health reasons [...]
Ming who? Several readers have challenged columnist Paul Murray on his description of former Liberal leader Sir Robert Menzies as “a relatively unknown Victorian lawyer” in the early 1940s when he made his Forgotten People speech (Family values party an odd political coupling, page 20, June 24). He had already been prime minister at that [...]
Freudian slip, slop, slap: Ironman Tim Peach is certainly a beach boy, but Beach is certainly not his surname (Partying swimmers warned over raunchy web photos, page 3, April 3). Report an error
Too cryptic: Although we had former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev visiting Assisi (Gorbachev the Christian, page 30, March 20), we relocated the tomb of St Francis of Assisi to Rome. It is, of course, where it always was: in Assisi. Report an error
