''Eureka Street'' is an Australian

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concerned with public affairs, arts, and theology. Founded in 1991, the magazine was published in print format for 15 years before becoming an online-only magazine in 2006. The magazine is part of Jesuit Communications, the communications arm of the Australian

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Province. However, the magazine has a tradition of being strongly secular and inclusive.

Morag Fraser Morag Fraser is an Australian journalist and literary critic. Fraser edited the magazine Eureka Street from 1991 till 2003. Fraser was an adjudicator of the Miles Franklin Award from 2005 to 2011. She is currently the chairperson of the Austral ...

was editor of Eureka Street from 1991 till 2003. Tim Kroenert held the position until early 2020, when David Halliday became editor, alongside editorial consultant Andrew Hamilton.

Writers

Writers published in the magazine have included

Margaret Simons Margaret Simons (born 1960) is an Australian academic, freelance journalist and author. She has written numerous articles and essays as well as many books, including a biography of Senate leader of the Australian Labor Party Penny Wong. Her essa ...

Peter Roebuck Peter Michael Roebuck (6 March 195612 November 2011) was an English cricketer who later became an Australian newspaper columnist and radio commentator. A consistent county performer with over 25,000 runs, and "one of the better English openers ...

, Brett McBean, Frank Brennan,

Gregory O'Kelly Gregory John O'Kelly SJ AM (born 10 August 1941) is an Australian Jesuit prelate of the Catholic Church and the former Bishop of Port Pirie. Life O’Kelly was born in Adelaide. He taught at Pentridge Prison and at two schools while preparin ...

Clive Hamilton Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA (born 12 March 1953) is an Australian public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles ...

, Susan Crennan and Stuart Macintyre.

References

External links

Official websiteJesuit Communications
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