Margaret Simons
Follow Margaret Simons on Twitter
External website: http://margaretsimons.com.au/
The Monthly Essays
Second Life: Mark Scott Embarks on Another Five-Year Term
Margaret Simons
Shortly after his appointment to the top job in mid 2006, it seemed as though the 3-D virtual world Second Life was the new thing – a place...
More ...
The Monthly Essays
Sex Before Soccer: SBS
Margaret Simons
“This mean-spirited, greedy little television station,” fulminated the Australian’s media critic Errol Simper recently. “A tasteless,...
More ...
Is Australian Democracy Broken?
Part 1 | Part 2 Australian voters, pundits and politicians alike are asking the same questions: what happened to our politics? Where does...
More ...
The Monthly Essays
Crises of Faith: The Future of Fairfax
Margaret Simons
Perhaps the worst journalists are believers too – so convinced about the importance of their mission, their own special place as...
More ...Exodus: The International Student Sector
Margaret Simons
Only a few years ago you could see them being preyed upon at major city railway stations. Touts would hand out leaflets urging them to...
More ...Duty of Care
Margaret Simons
Pluck an episode from the midstream of human life and it can be hard to glean meaning. Sometimes there is just senselessness and mess. If...
More ...
The Political Memoirs. Malcolm Fraser in conversation with Margaret Simons
Margaret Simons
Part 1 | Part 2In this frank and enlightening conversation, former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser discusses the guiding ideas and key...
More ...The Monthly Essays
Dangerous Precedent: The Melbourne Model
Margaret Simons
Davis mentions the book when I ask him why, at a time when the higher education sector is more stressed than ever before, he is trying to...
More ...
Social Media: Death or salvation of professional journalism? (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 At this Media140 Sydney forum, Fran Kelly (ABC RN) hosts a panel of eminent journalists and newsmakers on the impact of...
More ...Comment
Margaret Simons
The Hyatt is an historic hotel, or what passes for one in this young city, and the front of the building is heritage-listed so the doormen...
More ...
