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Jo Thornely
Jo Thornely writes for The Daily Telegraph and The Punch, but leaves time for her day job in television, which facilitates her love of criticising people and gin. Follow her on Twitter @jothornely
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Mat Larkin
Mat Larkin is tall, indoorsy and very much of the opinion.
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Sam Encel
Sam Encel is a risk management consultant, carbon dioxide producer and self-loathing Liberal. He moralises in 140 characters or less at @samencel
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Editors
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Jane Gilmore
Jane Gilmore is the editor of The King's Tribune. Jane also occasionally writes for The Drum and got a thing on Crikey once, but probably just by accident.
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Ben Pobjie
Ben has not one but TWO hilarious books out now. Surveying the Wreckage and Superchef.
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Amy Gray
Amy Gray is a writer and occasional broadcaster from Melbourne, Australia.
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Drag0nista
Drag0nista is a former denizen of the political underworld. She escaped once she realised her own opinions were more important than those of politicians.
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Tim Dunlop
Tim Dunlop writes regularly for The Drum and other publications.
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Dave Gaukroger
Dave Gaukroger provides a cautionary example for others. He continues to believe in quaint ideas like social equality, personal accountability and the power of indy pop music. You can listen to Dave talk politics, news and the media each week on Something Wonky. Follow Dave on twitter: @dfg77
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Sunday Relish
Elizabeth Peddey (aka Sunday Relish) has been The Tribune’s food expert since 2009. She also consults in Meal and Pantry Planning, Food Shopping and Entertaining and offers Cooking Classes. Email: epeddey@bigpond.net.au Ph: 0419 505 438.
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Rebecca Shaw
REbecca is primary caregiver and confidant to Tippi, the best cat in the world. She also likes writing bad jokes on twitter @brocklesnitch
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Ultra Hedonist
Ultrahedonist is an everyday office worker. She loves pleasure and even-handedness and wishes we could all just get along.
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Tom Cummings
Tom Cummings is a former problem gambler and advocate for gambling reform. He blogs about gambling and is running a gambling reform campaign (with a petition you should sign at www.clubpubfail.com)
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Jenna Price
Jenna Price is the Coordinator Undergraduate Journalism UTS and an administrator of Destroy the Joint
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Victoria Rollison
Victoria Rollison is a writer and cat lover from Adelaide.
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Peter Hinton
Peter Hinton is a Senior Project Manager at the University of Sydney and lives with his family in Parramatta, NSW.
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David Bonnici
David Bonnici is a journalist, editor and blogger at www.dbonnici.wordpress.com
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John Birmingham
John Birmingham writes for food. And your entertainment.
You can buy his books read his blog or follow him on twitter. Or all three - that's probably the best thing.
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Sue Ann Post
Sue-Ann Post is a Melbourne based comedian and writer. She has also recently started her own blog under the name, The Grumpy Optimist.
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Fiona Katauskas
Fiona Katauskas is a freelance cartoonist based in Sydney. Her work has appeared in a range of publications, including Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian and New Matilda as well as on cards for the Ink Group and t-shirts for Mambo. Follow her on Twitter @fionakatauskas
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Chrys Stevenson
Chrys Stevenson is a writer, blogger and social activist from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. She was a contributor to the Australian Book of Atheism (2010) and her work is widely published online. Chrys blogs at Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear
Follow her on twitter @Chrys_Stevenson.
Chrys has a first class honours degree in cultural studies.
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Ben Jenkins
Ben Jenkins is a Sydney-based writer. He just came off a stint working for The Chaser where he watched 12 hours of breakfast television a day at double speed. He no longer does this and it’s the best.
He writes politics for The Vine and his blog: A Baffling Ordeal
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Jane Caro
Jane Caro is a feminist, an atheist, public education advocate, author, novelist and general all-round shit-stirrer. You can follow her on twitter @janecaro
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Geordie Guy
Geordie Guy is an online rights and freedoms campaigner from Sydney. According to Stephen Conroy he has run a campaign to deliberately mislead the Australian public, according to his wife he makes a lovely quiche. Follow him on Twitter @GeordieGuy
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Larry Stillman
Larry Stillman is on the Executive of the Australian Jewish Democratic Society and was on the committee of Liberty Victoria for a number of years. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University. All the opinions here are his own viewpoint and do not reflect that of AJDS or Monash.
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Scott Ludlam
Scott Ludlam is an Australian Greens Senator from WA. He is the Greens’ spokesperson on Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
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Marian Dalton
Writer, poet, blogger, editor, Ally, wonk. Action heroine of the internet. Social media whore. Marian is the author of the blog ‘The Conscience Vote: Politics for the Human’.
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Dom Knight
Dominic Knight is a novelist and one of the founders of The Chaser. He tweets as @domknight
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Bennett Ring
Bennett Ring is the geek that other geeks turn to for tech advice. He is a freelance writer and producer of content about games, tech and other assorted nonsense. Follow him on twitter @bennettring
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- 1. Putting the FUN! back in Arts Funding
- (Weekly Email)
- In times past, the Church was the major patron of the Yarts, hence all the lovely cathedrals and paintings of Jesus. Is the modern era's legacy in danger of being no more than a paean to arts bureaucrats? ...
- Created on 22 May 2013
- 2. Duck Ragu with Pappardelle
- (Weekly Email)
- Last winter, Miki, a girlfriend of mine called to say that she was coming to cook us a Duck Ragu. She had cooked the dish with huge success the previous weekend and felt compelled to share it with us. ...
- Created on 28 April 2013
- 3. What would I pay for?
- (Weekly Email)
- While researching the sex industry for the Myth vs Facts article, I interviewed a number of people with contacts and information about the industry. One of them put me in touch with Julie, who had recently ...
- Created on 23 April 2013
- 4. Stone Soup
- (Weekly Email)
- As the weather (finally) cools, a cook’s thoughts begin to turn to simple, long-cooked comfort foods. Go to Stone Soup recipie I remember the nightly reading when the children were young and the story ...
- Created on 02 April 2013
- 5. Diary of a Backbencher: The Spill
- (Weekly Email)
- What really happened in Canberra on the day of the spill that wasn’t? The Tribune’s exclusive extract from a Government Backbencher’s diary exposes the truth of that fateful day. 21st March, 2013 ...
- Created on 25 March 2013
- 6. They gave us the best years of their lives
- (Weekly Email)
- New studies suggest that it’s not just the human ballistic missiles of Grid Iron whose lives are being cut short by brain injuries. One of Australian Rules’ greatest hard-nuts is now paying the price. ...
- Created on 03 March 2013
- 7. Ratatouille
- (January 2013)
- Tomatoes, eggplants, zucchini, and capsicums all come into the height of their season during our summer holiday period. Delicious, versatile and inexpensive at this time of year they are terrific as separate ...
- Created on 15 January 2013
- 8. From Hair Shirt to Hedonist
- (December 2012)
- Bruce Springsteen once said “blind faith in anything... will get you killed.” Ultra Hedonist discovers, as most of us do, that belief just gets you poor. I’ve noticed lately that seem to be out of sync ...
- Created on 06 December 2012
- 9. Prague
- (December 2012)
- Mike continues his European Domination tour with a couple of days in one of Europe’s most determinedly-beautiful cities. Prague’s still there, hidden behind the t-shirt stores and the vendors selling ...
- Created on 06 December 2012
- 10. New Conspiracy Theories
- (November 2012)
- Jo Thornley Thornleigh Thornlee delves deep into the basements of all our brains, to find the truly true reasons for all the things that are confusing us. The only conspiracy we can find though, is why ...
- Created on 31 October 2012
- 11. O is for Oyster
- (October 2012)
- I recall my older brother regaling me with tales of him and friends prying oysters from rocks and feasting on them in blistering heat, as they drank beer which they chilled in deep rock pools. These delicacies ...
- Created on 10 October 2012
- 12. Editorial - October 2012
- (October 2012)
- It’s a fascinating exercise, watching all the different forms of media flailing about, trying to work out how to attract readers, how to get them to pay, what content to give out for nothing, what to hide ...
- Created on 26 September 2012
- 13. Pastasciutta and the Futurists
- (August 2012)
- The famous Italian futurist poet, Marinetti (1876 - 1944) not only challenged the nature of Italian music, art, literature, theatre and dance but eventually too the traditions of Italian cuisine. His controversial ...
- Created on 01 August 2012
- 14. Interview with George Megalogenis
- (July 2012)
- The Tribune spoke to Jonathan Holmes and George Megalogenis this month to get some of their thoughts on how journalism is changing because of "new media". This is an edited transcript of the interview ...
- Created on 08 July 2012
- 15. Interview with Jonathan Holmes
- (July 2012)
- The Tribune spoke to Jonathan Holmes and George Megalogenis this month to get some of their thoughts on how journalism is changing because of "new media". This is a transcript of the interview with Jonathan ...
- Created on 07 July 2012
- 16. Fish In Its Crudest Form
- (July 2012)
- Teach a man to fish and before you know it he’s bought a boat and you’ll never see him again. Give Sunday a fish and you’ll never eat anything else. My son at barely seventeen years of age returned ...
- Created on 04 July 2012
- 17. Rice & Smothered Cabbage Soup
- (April 2012)
- “Both the Greeks and the Romans thought cabbage a very healthy food, which it is: and a protection against drunkenness, which it is not.” (Alan Davidson, The Oxford Companion to Food,1999). These days, ...
- Created on 02 April 2012
- 18. Cryptic Crossword - April 12
- (April 2012)
- ACROSS 7: Drinks onboard the good ship Leigh (5) 8: Terry Hicks said this (coll.) to a secret society member? (9) 10: Greer, less, that is, for a European (6) 11: A girl in these inspires not very ...
- Created on 02 April 2012
- 19. The Sound of One Keyboard Tapping
- (April 2012)
- Working from home isn’t all porn and cake — there are deadlines to meet I know where every single thing is in this apartment. Not in a vague ‘it’s in that cupboard’ way, but as in ‘it’s on the third ...
- Created on 02 April 2012
- 20. I’m not a climate scientist but...
- (February 2012)
- Anyone who’s ever been in a car with children will know that when they’re not crying, pulling each other’s hair or stuffing bit of fruit behind the car seats, they’re asking endless, unanswerable questions. ...
- Created on 02 February 2012

