Barry Dick is online sports editor and sports columnist for Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n newspaper The Courier-Mail

The Courier-Mail

The Courier-Mail is a daily newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia. Owned by News Limited, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Murarrie, in Brisbane's...

. He has been a reporter for 37 years, and has been a sports reporter for the past 24 years. Until recently, Dick was the rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 editor for The Courier-Mail, and wrote the For Argument's Sake column during the football season. He currently compiles the Tell Barry He's Wrong blog

Blog

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 on The Courier-Mail's website.

During his career he has been:

• Melbourne bureau chief for The Courier-Mail
• sports editor
• news editor
• chief sub-editor
• page one sub-editor
• re-write sub-editor
• chief sub-editor (features)

Dick was the first fulltime Australian football writer for The Courier-Mail in 1973.

Source

• The Courier-Mail retrieved 6 December 2005