Sandwich Gate: Julia Gillard Better Take Cover
My latest Global Voices Online post is Australia's Sandwich Gate: PM Julia Gillard Better Take Cover
Australia: National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding At Last
Australia: National Disability Insurance Scheme Funding At Last (Global Voices Online):
Thank you to AusVotes 2013′s writers and readers
Wow. Four months ago, AusVotes 2013 didn’t even exist and yet today it’s been honoured with an award in the Australian Writers’ Centre’s 2013 Best Australian Blogs competition. Colour me gobsmacked….
A picture is worth a thousand words
A picture is worth a thousand words
Not Leigh Sales’ job to save Labor
I’ve written before that Twitter has become an unexpected school of politics, providing a unique forum for people with less knowledge of our civic processes to learn from those with more. When those discussions are taking place, Twitter is vibrant and all-embracing democracy at its best. Well, Wednesday night was NOT one of those times.
Boston news coverage – first is not best
Here’s my latest at AusVotes 2013… Modern journalism is impoverished by the anachronistic need to be first. Once upon a time, in the pre-internet days of the mechanical printing press and morning edition newspapers, there was real value in getting a story first.
Should @PMOPressOffice be partisan?
I wrote a post about the partisan behaviour of @PMOPressOffice – can it be a trusted information source AND a faceless troll? You can read the post by clicking here and heading over to Storify …..
Secret Life and Death of Australian-Israeli Mossad Spy ‘Prisoner X’
My latest post for Global Voices: Secret Life and Death of Australian-Israeli Mossad Spy ‘Prisoner X’