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Donor, August 2024
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Earlier this year we invited you to give us your point of view on how Pearls and Irritations is meeting your needs. You told us that what we are doing is on the right track and the volume of articles we deliver is ‘just right’. You also told us that you would like to see a greater gender and age balance in our authorship, an increased diversity of topics, and a focus on authors exploring solutions to public policy problems, rather than restating the problem itself.
Our editorial policy is focused on meeting these requests.
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As always, I appreciate your ongoing support and readership, and to those of you who have already donated, I thank you.
John Menadue is the Founder and Editor in Chief of Pearls and Irritations. He was formerly Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet under Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser, Ambassador to Japan, Secretary of the Department of Immigration and CEO of Qantas.
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