Career: Sunday Observer

A clear snapshot of the mindset of Observer publisher Maxwell Newton is given in the interview I conducted with him in 1975. I was aged 18. The interview was published in Farrago, the University of Melbourne on June 4, 1975. “Publisher of the “soar-away” Sunday Observer, Maxwell Newton now holds the position of director of the newly formed Workers Party. “Quoting

Melbourne Observer proprietor Maxwell Newton recruited award-winning journalist John Sorell (pictured) in the early 1970s to edit the independent Sunday weekly newspaper. I was a teenager working as a ‘casual’ in the Richmond printery. First working from offices in St Kilda Rd, then briefly above Waverley Offset Printers, then at Newton St in Richmond, Sorell