Publisher at Hyperlocal News (CBD, Docklands, Inner City, Southbank and North West City Newspapers) and founder of not for profit organisation Educaring Africa.
Richard Marles is a class act - here’s a 2 minute extract of the cracking tribute to Linda White that he just delivered in Parliament. No notes, great insights and genuine warmth. Well done.
60% of US journalism jobs have disappeared over the past 2 decades and News Corp CEO Robbie Thomson reckons this is partly due to journalistic “pomposity and price consciousness”.
WTF does that mean? Listen to the human thesaurus from today’s earnings call here.
Heartbroken to learn of the death of Carlton Gardens Primary School principal Tina McDougall. Tina loved her teachers and staff, truly cared for the kids, and understood deeply the power of education. Under her leadership the school and community flourished. Vale Tina McDougall
Take a few minutes and read this by @AgeInvestigates It’s worth it.
‘The rich and influential cheer squad who backed a war criminal’ https://t.co/2rapUDS5gW
Happy to be apart of the inaugural #linasummit2023 with @MRowlandMP . Great to finally have an industry body supporting the interests of a diverse and independent media industry in Australia
Why is it then that the Nine newspapers and Murdoch gave extraordinary coverage to a move that reduces tax perks to the very wealthy while virtually ignoring daily accounts of a govt and a bureaucracy illegally and callously persecuting the most vulnerable?
C’mon @cityofmelbourne - your Southbank library should be open Sundays here at $30m Boyd Centre. Just pay the double time. Manningham is now opening its Doncaster & Pines libraries 1-4pm every Sunday. @Nicholas_Reece @RohanLeppert @LordMayorMelb
Daniel Andrews thoughts re the front page of the Herald Sun today:
‘Can anyone tell me what the point of the story is? Anyone? Are you going to interview the stairs? People can go as low as they want. I’m not going there with them’. @7NewsMelbourne
@VicGovDH Think of the reaction if we lost 22 people in the roads in one day. This toll is hideous and getting worse . These are real people. Real families. Will either state or federal government please start to address this disaster more seriously? What is the winter plan?
It’s people like Alan Adler that make Melbourne such a unique, special place. Alan has just turned 90, and this year celebrates 50 years of operating the iconic Flinders Street Station photo booth.
Would love to hear @JoshFrydenberg & his chief factional backer in Vic Michael Kroger discuss JobKeeper. Kroger's old school Wesley was the biggest school claimant in Australia with $17.4m & Josh's old school Biliak was 8th biggest in Vic with $6.23m: https://t.co/zJyFvw508a
The 50-year war on drugs is one of the most disastrous public policy failures in modern history. It ruins lives, wastes public money and lines the pockets of criminals. It's time for a better, smarter conversation about drugs. #healthnotharm#springst https://t.co/0jjndRBDvi