Australia’s dwindling print news landscape faces the biggest threat to its existence “since World War II”. Soaring paper costs this year have placed the last newsprint mill and countless Aussie news titles at risk of closure. Continue reading The death rattle of Aussie print news?
Melbourne hasn’t had a major quake in 55 years so at 36 I’m part of three Australian generations who have almost no cause for comparison to this experience. Continue reading Aftershock: the verbal history of a very small earthquake
The aesthetic of the Morrison “smirk” gets a great deal of airtime for a good reason. “Talking politically” to “talk about politics” as a way of life plays effectively to the balcony when you’re talking about car parks, gas, stopping the boats and negative gearing. Continue reading Style, Substance… and then there’s Scott
Peta Credlin has been slammed for poor journalistic conduct in a press conference with Victorian Premiere Daniel Andrews. Continue reading Andrews vs. Credlin
The short-term consequences of 2020’s election will dictate the speed of the global recovery from COVID-19. Long term? It could alter the perception of democracy. Continue reading Happiness is not just a thing called Joe
Josie Vine’s defining memory of lockdown is a moment of celebration amidst a storm of stress. The RMIT journalism faculty stalwart split the first half of 2020 between raising her family of three and liaising with “heroic librarians” as she fought to finish her first manuscript in a COVID-19 world. Continue reading Author celebrates big win in tough lockdown
The longest peacetime curfew in Australian history ended last night. It shuffled off into the annals of history at 5am amidst a peaceful chorus of relieved sighs by the Victorian Metropolitan Police. Officers attempted to retain an air of dignified mourning but couldn’t help hoping they might finally get a decent night’s sleep because of its demise. Continue reading Obituary: Melbourne’s COVID-19 Curfew
Conditions inside Australian detention centres have placed 1400 asylum seekers, other non-citizens and centre staff at risk of a Covid 19 outbreak. Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases president Dr Joshua Davies said crowded conditions would limit social distancing and adequate isolation measures. Continue reading Detention Centres Risk Rapid Transmission
It’s confronting as a first-year journalism student to face the possibility the US may only have state sanctioned media by the time I graduate. Continue reading War for the Soul: the crumbling facade of American democracy
In Melbourne this Afternoon 