by Fiona West | Aug 8, 2017 | media, reviews
Thirty-seven years ago Melbourne single mother-of-two Maria James sent her eldest son off to school with a chilling message: “If anything happens to me look after your brother.” That afternoon in June 1980, Maria was dead, found brutally stabbed 68 times...
by Fiona West | May 24, 2017 | media
She’s photographed everyone from the Pope and prime ministers to the Queen, and the King of Pop. But it is the less conspicuous characters in her impressive portfolio that have made a lasting impression on Renee Nowytarger. “It’s funny, people say,...
by Fiona West | Nov 22, 2016 | media, news, opinion
Last night, along with thousands of Australian viewers, I watched Four Corners’ special episode, A Sense of Self. I was so physically and emotionally moved by Liz Jackson’s personal account of her life with Parkinson’s disease I was unable to tweet,...
by Fiona West | Oct 24, 2016 | opinion, writing
It’s a cool autumn night in a kindly lit meeting room of an otherwise deserted hospital ward. We are sitting in our customary circle at the young women’s breast cancer support group as the convener plops a full sized Yellow Pages directory in each of our unsuspecting...
by Fiona West | Sep 1, 2016 | books, writing
As a newspaper crime reporter covering cops and courts in the 1990s and early 2000s I became aware of the name of now legendary detective Ron Iddles. The Victorian homicide detective with a 99% conviction rate was fast gaining the admiration of fellow officers, the...
