Eric completed his Bachelor in Communications majoring in Journalism in 2004 after including an extra two years of study in History and Archaeology.
He worked as a journalist with The Sunday Times for four years before leaving to work in Educational Publishing.
He went on to pursue a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Marketing and Management and then further postgraduate studies in everything from Advanced Research to Climate Science, completing 11 years of tertiary education.
He has worked in management roles, as a sales and marketing consultant and run a number of his own businesses.
Eric joins the Archdiocese of Perth Communications team on a contractual basis and brings his dulcet tones to the recording studio, as well as producing written copy for regular publication.
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The best in Catholic news from across the Archdiocese of Perth
Voices from the Amazon: ‘Querida Amazonia’, the Synod speaks
We cannot allow globalisation to become “a new version of colonialism”, His Holiness Pope Francis has said in Querida Amazonia, the Apostolic Exhortation produced as a result of the recent Amazonian Synod in 2019.
Ecumenical and evangelising: Journey Catholic Radio show
New ‘Catholic’ content has found its way to Perth’s airways at 8pm on Sunday evenings, courtesy of Journey: Catholic Radio, hosted by Jude Hennessy and local radio station 98five Sonshine FM.
Emmaus Community prayerfully resists COVID-19
The mental health issues associated with the quarantine measures combating COVID-19 are all too familiar to Emmaus Community members, whose journey through life has seen them arrive at a place where social isolation is avoided and communal living paths the way to healing.
COVID-19: Perth Catholics encouraged to get enriched with faith
Despite churches across the city being closed, the Centre for Faith Enrichment (CFE) remains operational in an online teaching capacity, providing a unique opportunity for Catholics to use this quarantine time to build their faith through education and understanding.
Badly burned but battling on, Australia bouncing back from the bushfires
In what has been one of the worst bushfire seasons in recorded history, Australia has been afflicted with a natural disaster of almost biblical proportions – with some 19,000,000 hectares of farmland, national park, and state forest torched by the flames.
COVID-19 SPECIAL REPORT
Churches have been closed, weekly and daily Masses are being streamed online and reception of the sacraments such as baptism, confession, marriages and funerals are extremely limited.
Isolated and in need of expression, Australia’s battle with anxiety and depression
Depression and anxiety, feeling safe in your own home and being exposed to physical violence are just some of the topics addressed in the results of the Commissioner for Children and Young People’s survey of some 5000 WA schoolchildren across Years 4 to 12.
EASTER 2020: Easter Masses celebrated online to combat COVID-19 pandemic
The reality of the COVID–19 crisis crashed home for Perth Catholics at this, the holiest time of the year, with Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB and Auxiliary Bishop Donald Sproxton concelebrating the Easter Sunday Mass in front of an empty St Mary’s Cathedral for the first time in living history.
COVID-19 UPDATE: Perth social outreach agencies continue to provide for the disadvantaged
Perth’s disadvantaged are finding themselves even more vulnerable as fear and COVID-19 quarantine restrictions keep people home.
COVID-19: Necessity the mother of invention for Perth Parishes
It was the Greek philosopher Plato who first said that, ‘Necessity is the mother of invention,’ and with COVID-19’s upheaval of society, priests and parishes around Perth are turning, many for the first time, to new technological innovations to keep the community together in this time of need.
