The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 28 November 2020 The traditional greeting is "Happy Thanksgiving", although this year's iteration is anything but. inkl Originals · Nov 28, 2020
Why Australian sports media is still light years behind the US Why don’t we have great duelling Australian Rules Football journalists? Because the league controls who knows what. inkl Originals · Nov 27, 2020
Music was not Nick Cave’s first obsession The love of painting and art in the musician’s youth has stayed with him. More than that, it continues to inform him. inkl Originals · Nov 27, 2020
We might begrudge journalists, but we still need them There’s more to investigative journalism than most people care to understand and we t need to shift people’s view on the media. inkl Originals · Nov 26, 2020
Men’s rights should advocate for men, not against women There are legitimate issues that disproportionately affect men such as suicide, it’s time men’s groups focussed on these inkl Originals · Nov 24, 2020
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 21 November 2020 An oft-repeated line is that free and fair trade has a liberalising influence on its participants. But in the last two decades China has proven that you can open up for trade without having to accept political liberalisation. Now, the new super-power has signed the world's largest free-trade deal, without… inkl Originals · Nov 21, 2020
Hocking tweaks, shocking tweets: another year of rule changes The usual blast of negative press followed Steven Hocking’s latest rule tweaks – but is it just empty noise? inkl Originals · Nov 20, 2020
The hypnotic lure of a harp against a global crisis Ancient and modern intermingle in this collaboration between harpist Mary Lattimore and Slowdrive founder Neil Halsted inkl Originals · Nov 20, 2020
Former inquiries hold clues to a better media landscape Tackling Australia’s concentrated media landscape needs to encourage investment in news start-ups, not negative action against News Corporation. inkl Originals · Nov 18, 2020
It’s a matter of trust, but we lost that a while ago People are jaded when it comes to politicians, and there’s good reason for it, but we miss out when we don’t demand change. inkl Originals · Nov 17, 2020
Royal Commission releases most detailed profile ever of Australian nursing home quality The aged care royal commission has provided the most complete picture yet, and it’s not pretty. inkl Originals · Nov 15, 2020
The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 14 November 2020 How do you judge a democracy? One of the most important tests, surely, would have to be whether the will of its people can be enacted by peacefully removing the incumbent office-bearer. How, then, would you judge the US democracy? Joe Biden has won the US election. But the incumbent… inkl Originals · Nov 14, 2020
Cashless Debit Card may breach law on race discrimination, Law Council says While the Coalition is attempting to rush legislation that extends the Cashless Debit Card scheme, it’s facing a new test. inkl Originals · Nov 13, 2020
The media spectacle that is the AFL’s Trade Period Deadline Day No sooner is the Grand Final run and won than free agency and trade take centre stage. inkl Originals · Nov 12, 2020
inkl Originals · Nov 11, 2020 A paradigm shift: the new willingness to throw stones The recent Four Corners revelations again shift the lines between the private and political.
inkl Originals · Nov 10, 2020 This is not a “sex scandal” Four Corners exposed how politicians and their policies denigrate women. It’s not grubby ‘gossip’, but rather a reason to be alarmed.
inkl Originals · Nov 10, 2020 As much as everything changes, everything stays the same The pandemic has created a lot of opining of a new world, but neoliberal politics is likely to avoid being disrupted yet again.
inkl Originals · Nov 7, 2020 The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 7 November 2020 This week Saudi oil giant Aramco reported a bone-deep 44.6% drop in profit in the third quarter.
inkl Originals · Nov 6, 2020 Mining magnate ‘in control’ of cashless debit card rollout Andrew Forrest, a mining billionaire, has effectively been put in charge of a federal government credit card scheme for welfare recipients.
inkl Originals · Nov 5, 2020 Why Chief Health Officers became so enmeshed in politics Media headlines emphasise miracle drugs and heroic surgeons, but until recently public health has been a “quiet game”.
inkl Originals · Nov 2, 2020 The AFL’s “free agency” is broken Other sporting codes are doing a better job than the AFL when it comes to free agents. There is a lot they could learn.
inkl Originals · Oct 31, 2020 The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 31 October 2020 Haven't the last four years just flown by? Another US Presidential election is upon us, and an even more bizarre one than the last. The global pandemic has warped the campaigns, but that hasn't stopped the parties from dropping a sweet $6.6b on the race. The president's plan was to…
inkl Originals · Oct 30, 2020 NDIS links 'independent' assessments to cost savings NDIS highlights cost savings in aligning a participant’s support package to their circumstances through independent assessments.
inkl Originals · Oct 28, 2020 The crisis of public trust in journalism Coronavirus is like black ink on white china and has shown up all the cracks in the media.
inkl Originals · Oct 27, 2020 ‘Shocking findings’ on domestic violence are worth questioning White Ribbon, the men’s organisation aiming to be part of the solution against domestic violence falters again after its initial failure