Career: Yea Chronicle

Our energetic 10-year proprietorship of The Yea Chronicle tweaked the noses of some vested interests in the prosperous Victorian valley. So much so that interests led by the politically active Don Lawson tried to set up an opposition publishing group in 1990. Don Lawson, well-known in Liberal Party circles, was a local Yea Shire Councillor.

I bought The Yea Chronicle business from long-time publisher Thomas Michael Dignam on April 2, 1984. Raised on farmland that now incorporates the Yea Golf Course, Thomas Michael Dignam was Yea’s most enduring newspaper editor. Tom was son of William and Mary Dignam. His older brother was Willie; younger brother was Eddie; and he had