For some years, John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations has been Australia’s best public policy forum – informative and stimulating. Now there is an extra reason to read it: it offers alternative views.

If ‘mainstream’ means commonly or widely accepted, the term mainstream media is a misnomer; Australia now has a right-fork media, presenting narrow, predictable opinions – or worse, increasingly extreme views – on domestic and international issues. Pearls and Irritations has a broader view.

Its tone is more critical, more progressive, more nuanced and more in touch with changes that influence our society and our relations with other nations.

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