Not a sterling effort
Peter van Onselen has written a column about a key marginal seat in Western Australia. The seat is named after the first governor of Western Australia. Plenty of other things around here are named after him, too. Van Onselen is a lecturer in political science at a Western Australian university. He refers to the “strong parochialism” of Western Australians.
You’d think he’d bloody-well spell “Stirling” correctly, wouldn’t you?
Gah.
Update: By email, Peter tells me that he’s a new arrival to WA, and that his computer’s spell-checker interfered with his work. I guess I can forgive him… ;-)
Far be it from me to defend a journalist, but it’s probably not van Onselen’s fault, just some illiterate subbie in Melbourne. After all, this is the newspaper that last week ran the headline “Goodes to fly against Eagles” when Goodes and the rest of the Sydney Swans were actually due to play the Dockers. Be thankful they even know that Perth is in Australia.
My apologies for the spelling error – it was not the fault of The Australian – rather the auto spell check function on my computer – after which time we all missed it!
Peter