Victor Desmond Courtney was a Western Australia

Western Australia

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n journalist. From small beginnings in a partnership (with Jack Simons

Jack Simons

John Joseph Simons was an Australian businessman and politician, best known for establishing the Young Australia League....

) in a weekly sporting newspaper, Courtney ended up as the managing director of The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times (Western Australia)

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 and owner of a network of thirty regional newspapers.

Works

• (1941) Random Rhymes, Perth, the author.
• (1941) The man from Marble Bar [poem].First line: Satan sat by the fires of hell. in Random rhymes, 1941, p. 16

reprinted in Grono, William (ed) (1988) Margins : a West Coast selection of poetry, 1829-1988Fremantle, W.A. Fremantle Arts Centre Press. ISBN 0949206377. page 200.

• (1946) Parlez vous [poem]. (first line) 'The reelers are at dinner tonight'.
• (1948) Cold is the Marble, Melbourne : Jindyworobak.
• (1956) All I May Tell, Sydney : Shakespeare Head Press.
• The Life Story of J. J. Simons, 1961.
• Perth—and All This!, 1962.

Further reading

• Davidson, Ron, (1994) High jinks at the hot pool : Mirror reflects the life of a city Fremantle, W.A. Fremantle Arts Centre Press. ISBN 186368090X (pbk.) former title was The Mirror.

External links

• Courtney's Australian Dictionary of Biography entry. - print version at — Victor Courtney — biography of journalist. Australian dictionary of biography, Vol. 13, p. 514.