Career
Before coming to Sydney in the 1880s, where he gained employment as an accountant, Broomfield worked for the Kyneton (Victoria) Guardian and as a correspondent for the Melbourne Age. Flamboyant, bohemian Broomfield was a contributor to The Bulletin and at one time worked there as a sub-editors Tradition has it that it was Broomfield who accepted Henry Lawson"s first Bulletin contribution.