Veteran newspaper columnist and editor Frank Devine has died.
He was 77 years old.
On Friday he was described as the "laughing cavalier of Australian journalism", by friend and former NSW opposition leader Peter Coleman on the website of The Australian newspaper, where Mr Devine was a former columnist and editor.
He had also been editor of the Chicago Sun-Times and the New York Post, a senior editor at the American edition of Reader's Digest and editor-in-chief of the Australian Reader's Digest.
He worked as a foreign correspondent in New York, London and Tokyo.
"His laughter, often noisy, was always infectious," Mr Coleman said.
"He was a sports fanatic (he had a bookcase full of dog-eared Wisdens), a film buff (his favourite film was The Godfather), and a stylish writer with a love for words."
Mr Devine was born in Blenheim, New Zealand on December 17, 1931.
He began his career as a journalist at the age of 17 on the New Zealand publication The Marlborough Express.
In 1953 he started work at The West Australian, where he met his wife Jacqueline. They married in 1959.
Mr Devine is survived by his wife and his three daughters Miranda, Alexandra and Rosalind.
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