Steve Bishop has spent most of his adult life clattering away at a keyboard while wondering when his luck would run out. Starting his journalistic career in 1965, he became a Fleet Street investigative reporter in 1973 and from 1982 was a senior reporter and feature writer on Queensland’s Sunday Sun. He gained a master’s degree with research which included an 85,000-word thesis on the media’s failure to expose endemic corruption in Queensland. From 1998 to 2007 he was principal media advisor to Queensland Premier Peter Beattie. Supporting him through all this has been his wife of 40 years, Kaye. They have two children and a grandson, Steve qualified as a ski instructor, has managed and coached a junior soccer team, been chairman of a Scout group, completed a marathon, tutored at the University of Queensland and is now carrying out an in-depth investigation of Queensland red wines.