Margaret Simons
Margaret Simons is an award-winning journalist, author of many books and essays and an academic.
She’s ‘Asia’s sweetheart’, but have you heard of Aussie-born celebrity Anne Curtis?
In the Philippines, the actress and TV star is mobbed in the streets. It’s a long way from her upbringing in rural Victoria.
- by Margaret Simons
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‘If I had run, I would have won’: The family pain behind Plibersek’s leadership call
For the first time, Tanya Plibersek reveals the grim trauma behind her decision to not contest the Labor Party leadership.
- by Margaret Simons
Opinion
Australia votes
Could this be the election in which News Corp’s impotence is exposed?
All media outlets are guilty at times of outbreaks of stupidity, errors of fact and judgment and egregious omissions. News Corporation is in a different class. But is it having an impact?
- by Margaret Simons
Opinion
Australia votes
In an age of unlimited information, what are voters actually Googling?
For those of us obsessed with election news, a useful corrective is to look at what Australians want to know when they turn to Google for information on the political contest.
- by Margaret Simons
Opinion
Australia votes
Focus on gaffes misses the real issues
Political journalism is not, or should not be, like sport reporting.
- by Margaret Simons
Opinion
Australian Open
Novak Djokovic didn’t have to be the biggest news story in the nation this week
The pandemic could provide a moment for journalists and the community to question long-standing news values.
- by Margaret Simons
Opinion
Media & marketing
Bullying must end, but it can’t all be tweet nothings
Trolling public figures is never OK, but news organisations and journalists need to think seriously about how to engage with Twitter.
- by Margaret Simons
Opinion
Media & marketing
News Corp’s shift on emissions reveals limitations of power
News Corp’s shift on emissions coverage reveals something about the nature and limitations of the power of the Murdoch organisation.
- by Margaret Simons
As COVID returns to Flemington’s public housing estate, the response is markedly different
After several days of high anxiety, coronavirus has come once again to the Flemington public housing estate, with the confirmation of eight cases in one of the towers. But the response this time is different.
- by Margaret Simons
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Freedom of speech or promotion of lies? Who gets to decide what’s true?
Whatever you think of YouTube’s decision to suspend Sky News, it is clear social media platforms can control the message while being accountable to no one.
- by Margaret Simons
Murray Darling towns warned dams not the answer as river flows wane
An international climate expert has questioned spending public money on dams in the Murray Darling Basin because climate change radically reduces the likelihood they will fill.
- by Margaret Simons
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