In honour of the final Sunshine Coast Daily print edition today, some of our best and brightest have said their farewells. Here’s what Shirley Sinclair has to say.
It was definitely a sliding door moment when I overheard a conversation with some Gold Coast Bulletin newsroom mates that a general reporter’s job was on offer at the Sunshine Coast Daily.
It’s the little things I’ve already started to miss after our 13-year-old family pet, Tulla, died on Friday night.
When considering culinary capitals of the world, Amsterdam may not be the first to come to mind.
I’VE heard it said that travel is one of the few things that costs you money but makes you richer, but you could probably add books and movies to that list.
My mum and I never understood each other during my teen years and we had terrible arguments.
THE easing of Covid-19 restrictions on Friday at midnight are welcome because we all have a touch of cabin fever.
When we’re finally let out into the world and off the leash once again, we’ll be partying like it’s 2021.
I FINALLY have been presented with the indication that proves I have entered a parallel universe.
Shirley Sinclair is community engagement editor at Sunshine Coast Newspapers, often moonlighting as weekend editor, features/travel writer and intern co-ordinator. She has been a full-time working journalist since 1983, when she began as a cadet with the South Burnett Times in Kingaroy. Later, she spent just over a year in features at the Gold Coast Bulletin before putting down roots on the Sunshine Coast. She has held various reporting, editing, designing and newsroom management roles since joining the Sunshine Coast Daily newsroom in 1985. Shirley enjoys helping writers improve their style and further their careers (she has tutored journalism part-time at the University of the Sunshine Coast for a decade, mentors Daily reporters and supervises journalism students from southeast Queensland universities doing work experience in the newsroom). As well as her grown-up family, her passions are travel (she is a writer member of the Australian Society of Travel Writers), music, sport and enjoying the Coast lifestyle. Her greatest joy is helping give people a voice – be that community groups, journalism students, theatre groups, musicians, artists and ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
