Walter Bass’s fair and balanced biased views

Hello. Let me introduce myself.

I was born in Vienna, Austria in 1931. In 1939 my parents and I arrived in Australia as refugees from Nazi Germany. After an undistinguished stint at North Sydney Boys’ High, I became a Registered Surveyor and spent an enjoyable six years in the bush. When I met and married my wife I realised that an itinerant’s life in the bush was not conducive to a successful marriage, and moved moved to the Sydney WaterBoard where I, who had spent my childhood dreaming of becoming an explorer in the Amazon jungle, spent the next twenty nine years designing sewers. I retired in 1986. I am married to Corin, my wife of fifty years, who is also a writer and has broadcast on the ABC. We have three sons and two and a half grandchildren.

I broadcast for eight years contributing to the ABC’s SCOPE program and have contributed many letters to the Sydney press, earning the title of the North Shore Times “most contentious correspondent”. In 1976, I became the founding president of “The Friends of the ABC” and was either president or spokesman for that organisation for the next twenty years.

My principal interests are current affairs, reading and music. I liked cricket until it’s players became walking billboards.

My principal dislikes are talk back-radio, most ways of kicking, hitting and throwing balls of various shapes and sizes, and proselytising parsons.