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Margo Kingston
Margo Kingston (born 1959) is an Australian journalist, author, and commentator. She is best known for her work at ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and her weblog, Webdiary. Since 2012, Kingston has been a citizen journalist, reporting and commenting on Australian politics via Twitter and her own Web site. Early life and education Kingston was born in Maryborough, Queensland and was raised in Mackay. She attended the University of Queensland, graduating with a degree in arts and law. Her sister Gay Alcorn is a journalist and newspaper editor. Career Kingston qualified as a solicitor and practised in Brisbane and later lectured in commercial law in Rockhampton, before becoming a journalist for ''The Courier-Mail''. Within a year she moved to '' The Times on Sunday''. She also worked for ''The Age'', ''The Canberra Times'' and ''A Current Affair'' before moving to ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', where she worked until August 2005. Kingston gained prominence in 1998 when she led a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely read masthead in the country. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The newspaper is published in Compact (newspaper), compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, ''The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an Website, online site and Mobile app, app, seven days a week. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gatton, Queensland
Gatton is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. It is the administrative centre of the Lockyer Valley Region, situated in the Lockyer Valley, Queensland, Lockyer Valley of South East Queensland. In the , the locality of Gatton had a population of 7,851 people. History Prior to European settlement, the area was occupied by members of the Yaggera language, Yuggera Aboriginal language group. Jagera people, Jagara is one of the Aboriginal languages of South-East Queensland. There is some uncertainty over the status of Jagara as a language, dialect, or a group or clan within the local government boundaries of Ipswich City Council, Lockyer Valley Region, Lockyer Regional Council and the Somerset Regional Council. The Gatton area was explored by Major Edmund Lockyer in 1825. A settlement known as Gatton was gazetted in 1855. The name ''Gatton'' is taken from the village of Gatton, Surrey, Gatton in Surr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
'Not Happy, John!' Campaign
The Not happy, John!' campaign was an Australian political campaign to oppose the re-election of Prime Minister John Howard as member for Bennelong in the 2004 Australian federal election. The title of the campaign is based on the popular television commercial " Not happy, Jan!" and the book '' Not Happy, John'' by Margo Kingston. The campaign did not promote any specific candidate; instead, it called for votes for any other candidate standing against Howard. The campaign was unsuccessful, in that Howard was returned as member, but had some success in that it reduced Howard's majority by 3% in the face of a 2% swing to Howard's Liberal Party, and he did lose the seat as sitting Prime Minister in the subsequent election. Supporters of the campaign included Margo Kingston (journalist), John Valder (previous president of Howard's Liberal Party), Brian Deegan (former magistrate, who stood against Alexander Downer), Andrew Wilkie ( Greens candidate), Alex Broun playwright and Nicole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media, Entertainment And Arts Alliance
The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) is the Australian trade union and professional organisation which covers the media, entertainment, sports and arts industries. Its Musicians section consists of the SOMA (Symphony Orchestra Musician Association), TOMA (Theatre Orchestra Musicians Association), and, since December 2018, a new trade union for musicians, Musicians Australia (MA). History The MEAA was created in 1992, registered on 18 May 1992, through the merging of the unions covering actors, journalists and entertainment industry employees: * Actors Equity of Australia (AE) * The Australian Journalists Association (AJA) * The Australian Theatrical & Amusement Employees Association (ATAEA) In 2006, the Symphony Orchestra Musicians Association (SOMA) joined, creating a fourth section. The New South Wales Artworkers Union joined the MEAA, a Professional Sports Branch was created, and the Screen Technicians Association of Australia (STAA) reconstituted itself und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Library Of Australia
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australians, Australian people", thus functioning as a national library. It is located in Parkes, Australian Capital Territory, Parkes, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, ACT. Created in 1960 by the ''National Library Act'', by the end of June 2019 its collection contained 7,717,579 items, with its manuscript material occupying of shelf space. The NLA also hosts and manages the Trove cultural heritage discovery service, which includes access to the Australian Web Archive and National edeposit (NED), a large collection of digitisation, digitised newspapers, official documents, manuscrip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fairfax Holdings
Fairfax Media was a media company in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties. The company was founded by John Fairfax as John Fairfax and Sons, who purchased ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' in 1841. The Fairfax family retained control of the business until late in the 20th century. The company also owned several regional and national Australian newspapers, including ''The Age'', ''Australian Financial Review'' and ''Canberra Times'', majority stakes in property business Domain Group and the Macquarie Radio Network, and joint ventures in streaming service Stan and online publisher HuffPost Australia. The group's last chairman was Nick Falloon and the CEO was Greg Hywood. On 26 July 2018, Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment Co. announced it had agreed on terms for a merger between the two companies. Shareholders in Nine Entertainment Co. took a 51% of the combined entity and Fairfax shareholders own 49%. Fairfax Media ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely read masthead in the country. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberalism In Australia
In Australia, liberalism has a vast interpretation and a broad definition. It dates back to the earliest Australian pioneers and has maintained a strong foothold to the present day. Modern-day Australian liberalism is the successor to colonial liberalism, and has been compared to British liberalism for its similarity. The primary representation (and political entity) of Australian liberalism is the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. Unlike in the United States, in Australia, the term "liberal", is often associated with conservatism. Introduction Some of the earliest pioneers of the federation movement, men such as Alfred Deakin, came under the influence of David Syme of ''The Age''. Other influencers of federalism included Samuel Griffith who, while initially seen as a supporter of the labour movement, became partisan against the Labour movement with his legal intervention in the 1891 Australian Shearers' strike. While all of these men were generally self-described ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convention (philosophy And Social Sciences)
A convention influences a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, social norms, or other criteria, often taking the form of a custom. In physical sciences, numerical values (such as constants, quantities, or scales of measurement) are called conventional if they do not represent a measured property of nature, but originate in a convention, for example an average of many measurements, agreed between the scientists working with these values. General A convention is a selection from among two or more alternatives, where the rule or alternative is agreed upon among participants. Often the word refers to unwritten customs shared throughout a community. For instance, it is conventional in many societies that strangers being introduced shake hands. Some conventions are explicitly legislated; for example, it is conventional in the United States and in Germany that motorists drive on the right side of the road, whereas in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Nepal, India a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Mayne
Stephen Mayne (born 23 July 1969) is an Australian journalist, local government councillor, and self-described shareholder activist. He won the Walkley Award. Career Journalism Mayne worked for a number of media outlets and was a media adviser to the Premier of Victoria Jeff Kennett between 1992 and 1994. In 1997 Mayne appeared on ABC TV's ''Four Corners'' as a whistleblower about Kennett's share dealings. In 1999 Mayne started the website ''jeffed.com'' devoted to complaints about Kennett in support of Mayne's abortive candidacy in the 1999 election. He is best known for founding ''Crikey'' in 2000, an online independent news service. The combination of gossip and anti-establishment reporting got Mayne into legal (and consequent financial) trouble several times. Despite considerable financial pressures, Mayne persisted and ''Crikey'' gradually attracted subscribers and a fair degree of notoriety. It was announced on 1 February 2005 that ''Crikey'' had been sold for A$1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Ramsey
Alan Graham Ramsey (3 January 193824 November 2020) was an Australian journalist and columnist for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' from 1986 to 2008. In a career spanning 56 years, he worked for ''The Daily Telegraph, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald,'' and the ''Australian Associated Press''; covering the Vietnam War, Australian politics, and writing columns and opinion pieces. He was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame in 2017. Early life Ramsey was born in Hornsby, New South Wales, on 3 January 1938 to Thelma Ruth Simmonds and Eric Ramsey. His father worked assorted jobs including a factory job and a few sales jobs. He was the eldest of five siblings. His mother took him and his siblings to live at Chittaway Point, New South Wales, when his father was enlisted in the war. He completed his Intermediate Certificate studies from Gosford High School before joining ''The Daily Telegraph''. Career Ramsey started his career in journalism in 1953 as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
