Pearls and Irritations: Australias best public policy forum
August 14, 2023
For some years, John Menadues Pearls and Irritations has been Australias 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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David Armstrong
David Armstrong is an Australian journalist and editor with decades of experience, including as editor-in-chief of The Australian, editor of The Bulletin and The Canberra Times and deputy editor the Daily Telegraph in Australia. He is also former editor and editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post, former president of the Bangkok Post company, former chair of the Phnom Penh Post company and is current chair of ucanews.com.