When Cheryl Kernot delivered an address at the Melbourne Press Club’s Quill awards on 26 February 1998, the former schoolteacher had a lesson for all the journalists there.According to the issued text of her address, Cheryl Kernot said she wanted journalists to concentrate more on ‘the substance and detail’ of what politicians are saying.She had a point.Just over two months earlier, Cheryl Kernot had said something quite significant about the Labor leadership and herself, but no-one appeared to …
