The protagonist in the new novella Attack at the Dolphin is caught between an enduring love for her husband and lust for a “toy boy”, a cadet at the newspaper where she works. Set against the backdrop of the high rolling heavy drinking Sydney of the 1990s, this delightful romp is written by former Sydney Morning Herald journalist and woman-about-town Bridget Wilson. Attack at the Dolphin is a sometimes painful, always moving, often funny meditation on marriage and infidelity, love and lust, loyalty and treachery. Having worked for decades as a television and newspaper journalist, Bridget Wilson left Australia to return to her home town of Auckland , New Zealand . She has since established herself as an addictions counselor. Attack is Wilson ’s first book. “When the opportunity came up to join the boutique publishing enterprise A Sense of Place Publishing as one of their stable of writers I jumped at the chance,” Wilson recalls. “Like many an old journalist, I’ve always dre...

Refusing to hide, Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia Alastair Nicholson, scheduled to appear before an inquiry into family law and child support, entered Australia's Parliament House in Canberra via the front door on the 10th October 2003.   As Chief Justice of one of the most unpopular courts in the country, Nicholson had become a key figure fuelling discontent with Australia's political, bureaucratic and judicial wings of government. With millions of Australians having gone through the shredder of the country's divorce regime, he had become a focus for community discontent.   So heightened had the debate around Nicholson become that politicians rightly feared the general public were losing faith in the country's governance.   Nicholson was arguably the single most outspoken, certainly the most controversial judge ever to serve in the Australian court system; deeply hated by some, admired by others. Politicians from both sides of politics had r...