Self-regulation clock has been ticking down
(This opinion piece, originally written in 2003, has proved eerily prescient as the debate on media reforms rages here and abroad a decade later. It was written after the first […]
Category Archives: Opinion
The year of living dangerously revisited
September 11, 2005 marked the fourth anniversary of the shocking terrorism attacks in the US, an incredibly difficult and confronting assignment for any journalist covering the horrors as they unfolded […]
Brisbane’s transport network flawed
If peak oil theories prove correct, and all signs are that they will, access to shrinking amounts of oil is the likelihood we must all face over coming decades. Yet what […]
Go card penalises wary transport users
WHAT is it with “a lot” of Translink’s go cards expiring before the cash stored on them has been spent? And why, when this happens, should commuters be forced to […]
Is Australia surrendering its egalitarianism?
TWO very close friends are off on an extended European holiday later this year and last week asked, via email, whether there was any truth in a rather alarming article […]
Crowd control must start with the individual
WHAT is it about big crowds that they seem to be magnets for the ill-mannered almost every time? Recently I stood amid thousands of Barry Gibb fans just to hear […]
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