”Later, I saw on television the picture of a QantasLink aircraft, due to a slight overrun on landing, sitting off the end of the sealed Newman runway with its nose gear apparently bogged in the non-sealed surface. It was raining heavily.”
Hang on a minute... Even an armchair expert could see that there was not a lot of broken surface from the very first pic... However the aircraft rolled into the hard over run area does not sound anywhere near as dramatic.