Wishing our readers all the best for 2016

LIKE any job, journalism has its ups and downs.

LIKE any job, journalism has its ups and downs.

The best thing about the job is you get to see something different almost every day - and the worst thing is you see something different every day.

A newsroom is hardly the place for quiet reflection on what has been and gone. There is always something new going on that requires your immediate attention.

I'll be the first to admit any attempt to think back over the last year often produces little more than a grey mental mist, and it seems to only get mistier for every year that goes by.

You may have noticed over the last week the QT has been publishing our 2015 Year in Review - a month-by-month instalments of the year that was.

It is not until you sit down and sift through 52 weeks of papers you get a full appreciation of the variety of news that comes through the QT.

It was a year of soaring Ipswich Jets, enormous residential development, shed rip-offs and greyhound live baiting. It also included the changing of a State Government, the sacking of a Police Minister, and the battle to keep the Ipswich police communications centre.

Some of the biggest stories from 2015 are dead and buried, while others are only just beginning - either way it is going to be a big year for the QT in 2016. On behalf of everyone here, I'd like to wish all of our readers the best of luck for the year ahead.

-Andrew Korner, deputy editor