"[2][3] In 1886, Lovekin was a senior reporter on the Fremantle Herald: "the colony's first radical newspaper", according to the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

The Herald was absorbed by the owners of a rival newspaper, Daily News, and in 1890, Lovekin became company secretary and director.

In 1893, in England, he bought machinery which enabled Daily News to install the first rotary printing press and Linotype typesetting machines in Western Australia.

Lovekin was a patriotic Western Australian and crusader for development, based on an expanding rural economy and the fashioning of a beautiful city: like Hackett, he was a substantial benefactor to Perth.

[2]During World War I Lovekin helped organise the conscription campaign in 1916, and "matched the 'King's Shilling' with his own", according to the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

It was Lovekin's idea to honour WA's war dead by planting rows of commemorative trees in the park.

[4] In 1920 Lovekin and board member Sir William Loton each donated £500 to clear and plant Forrest Avenue with sugar gums.