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9 March 2010
Required reading

Digital advertising spend conquers print, and iPhoned journos love the Police Scanner app. Today's...

4 March 2010
Journo meets Jedi

The Men Who Stare at Goats, a rollicking film based on Jon Ronson’s book, is out now.

4 March 2010
Required reading

Cheap drinks? There's an app for that. Plus photographers suffer under new UK bill, and more in today's...

3 March 2010
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Facebook makes a billion, Penguin books with more Colin Firth, and Arianna Huffington says "I...

2 March 2010
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Free labour from students, data visualisation and is the party over for social columnists? Today's...

1 March 2010
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Blogging ethics, Louis Vuitton to publish a mag, and what we can learn from the Grateful Dead - all...

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A Certain Grandeur

A Certain Grandeur: Gough Whitlam's Life in Politics

By Graham Freudenberg

Rodney Cavalier reviews the reissue of a classic political memoir that's stood the test of time.

Tokyo Vice

By Jake Adelstein

These tales from Tokyo's crime beat are not for the faint-hearted...

Changing Stations

By Bridget Griffen-Foley (UNSW Press)

There’s at least one in your house. Another one in your car. You can access it on your laptop. And

A Matter of Opinion

By Alan Ramsey

Drawing on Ramsey's 2273 Fairfax columns and 43 years in the press gallery

  • The Mud House

    21 January 2010

    By Richard Glover

    Subtitled four friends, one block of land, no power tools, this witty account of DIY gone bush also serves as an unlikely exploration of gender in Australia. Review by Angela Welsh.

  • Why You Are Australian

    24 November 2009

    By Nikki Gemmell

    A writer's love letter to her children and their Australian nationality

  • Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009

    17 November 2009

    By Russ Radcliffe (editor)

    Drawing on a rich vein of humour from a year of sauce-bottle shaking, Utegate faking and general piss-taking.

  • First Tests

    6 November 2009

    By Steve Cannane

    JTV's Steve Cannane interviewed some twenty-five test cricketers, and discovered that the backyard has been “the real academy of Australian cricket”.

  • This Restless Life

    6 November 2009

    By Brigid Delaney

    Churn, baby, churn...

  • Killing

    6 November 2009

    By Jeff Sparrow

    Misadventures in violence...

What’s New?

  1. The LA Times cover featuring an Alice In Wonderland ad
    9 March 2010
    Required reading

    Digital advertising spend conquers print, and iPhoned journos love the...

  2. Clooney and MacGregor in The Men Who Stare At Goats
    4 March 2010
    Journo meets Jedi

    The Men Who Stare at Goats, a rollicking film based on Jon Ronson’s...

  3. 4 March 2010
    Required reading

    Cheap drinks? There's an app for that. Plus photographers suffer under...

In the Magazine

  1. Illustration by Rocco Fazzari
    4 March 2010
    Who grew my dinner?

    By Jane Milburn

    Celebrity chefs may be hot in the media, but who produces the ingredients in those glamorous dishes?...

  2. Illustration by Robin Cowcher
    4 March 2010
    What's eating you?

    By Stephanie Wood

    An impulse to blog has given foodie Stephanie Wood a whole menu of career options. Artwork by Robin...

  3. Click on images to enlarge
    24 February 2010
    Postcards from Australia's heartland

    By Alan Attwood

    A photographer's vision and a novelist's musings give an insight into an Australia far from the tourist...

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    Sometimes journos should be left to do what they do best...

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    Hyperlocal in the headlines

    The Media Alliance continues the debate on the future of journalism