Pearls and Irritations: Australia’s best public policy forum
Pearls and Irritations: Australia’s best public policy forum
David Armstrong

Pearls and Irritations: Australia’s best public policy forum

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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You might also like to read about our growth and expanding voice below:

https://publish.pearlsandirritations.com/a-growing-string-of-pearls-and-just-as-many-irritations-fund/

The views expressed in this article may or may not reflect those of Pearls and Irritations.

David Armstrong

David Armstrong is a reporter, editor and media executive with more than four decades of experience in Australia and Asia. He lives in Bangkok

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