Joe Aston’s final Rear Window column ran in today’s Australian Financial Review, recounting his journey from his early days on the column when “unconstrained by self-awareness”, with the “Dunning-Kruger effect in full force”, he would attend “Sydney’s establishment canteens … and catalogue the power diners of the day” to its current incarnation, where he has had “most riotous fun exposing the rampant spin over substance in Australian business and politics, and demonstrating just how thin that veneer is”.
Say what you want about the guy — Gerry Harvey’s thoughts spring to mind — but Australian journalism is losing one of its most distinctive voices, an expert stylist whose put-downs landed with a satisfying thwack on the page.
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