Ms Abernethy said it had been a newsroom tradition for many years to present journalists with mock front pages as farewell gifts for journalists moving on from a publication. "I was the editor of the Whitsunday Times for more than seven years and introduced the idea of giving mock front pages of the Times to our former staff," she said. "This was a tradition in many newsrooms I worked in over three decades and this just takes that idea one step further." Ms Abernethy has a professional writing degree and was a journalist, editor, manager and multimedia director for more than 30 years until June 2020 when she was made redundant during the coronavirus pandemic.