Gavin Souter: The Sydney Morning Herald's lifetime reader
From Hornsby to Hurstville, Asquith to the Appin Way, there is no-one for whom The Sydney Morning Herald has provided the personal and professional drum-beat of life as much as for the venerable journalist and author Gavin Souter AC. And no man more qualified to pass astute judgment on us, from the overview of history. Retired veteran Herald reporter Gavin Souter. Credit:Edwina Pickles Among his first memories of growing up in Hunters Hill was the hefty thump of the Herald landing on the front step and, no fewer than nine decades on, he still waits to hear it land every morning at 7 o’clo...