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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
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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. GoT: We do want to see Season 4, right?
- (Weekly Email)
- On his Fairfax blog last week, John Birmingham asked Why are you still stealing Game Of Thrones? At risk of being seen to leap to the defence of (shock horror) Big Media, Justin takes up the cudgels with ...
- Created on 08 April 2013
- 2. Editorial - January 2013
- (January 2013)
- As I write this, George Brandis and Nicola Roxon are yelling “I know you are, but what am I???” at each other on ABC radio. James Ashby’s sexual harassment case against former Speaker Peter Slipper has ...
- Created on 21 January 2013
- 3. I Like Your Trousers
- (January 2013)
- The moral of this story is, don’t wear trousers while flirting when caffeined-up. I think. You decide. I exit the office bursting with self-esteem and skip out onto Swanston Street with an impromptu ...
- Created on 21 January 2013
- 4. Interview with a bully
- (January 2013)
- This is a fairly recent article and we didn’t want to rerun too many from this year, but this one really touched a chord. Sometimes it seems that every single person you talk to has some memory of being ...
- Created on 15 January 2013
- 5. Tex Perkins
- (November 2012)
- He’s fronted a couple of Australia’s most influential and popular bands and age doesn’t appear to be wearying him (bloody good thing, too). Australia’s premier heavy-browed, long-haired, baritone alterna-rock ...
- Created on 31 October 2012
- 6. The Mark of Cain
- (November 2012)
- It’s been a decade since their last album, but Songs Of The Third And Fifth is worth the wait. Singer and guitarist John Scott riffs with Justin over relationships, work ethic, insane drummers and, yes, ...
- Created on 31 October 2012
- 7. Standards Are Slipping
- (July 2012)
- In the first of a series on the evolution of TV, Justin digs through the DNA of the Cop Show. Standards are slipping, am I right? Just have a look at television these days and dig on all the cussing ...
- Created on 05 July 2012
- 8. A Homunculus Grows in Mahala
- (April 2012)
- Journalists risk their lives in conflict zones, but when something goes wrong they should be able to count on support from the Australian people and their government. Shouldn’t they? Around New Year ...
- Created on 02 April 2012
- 9. Editorial - April 2012
- (April 2012)
- Well, so, there was a #spill. Actually, for those of us who are twitter addicts, it was officially the #respill. And, despite the gleeful predictions of the media, Julia Gillard walked it in. The Labor ...
- Created on 02 April 2012
- 10. Interview With A Bully
- (March 2012)
- Start a discussion about bullying and you will find any number of people willing, WANTING, to stand up and talk about how terribly they were bullied at school. The side we almost never hear from though ...
- Created on 04 March 2012
- 11. Cluster Headaches
- (March 2012)
- ... poor fuckers whose pain won’t end until they die. — Justin Shaw is the deputy editor of The King’s Tribune Follow him on twitter @JuzzyTribune and read his weekly sports column on The Drum: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/justin-shaw-45874.html ...
- Created on 03 March 2012
- 12. Editorial - Feb 2012
- (February 2012)
- If you’re a Tribune fan (and we guess you must be since you’re reading this and if you’re not reading this then we suggest you go out and grab a copy now), there’s a good chance you’re on Twitter. You ...
- Created on 02 February 2012
- 13. I Have A Question And My Question Is This:
- (January 2012)
- Who the fuck am I meant to vote for at the next Federal election? This is not a rhetorical question. I really want to know. Who is meant to get my vote? Who do I trust to do the right thing most of the ...
- Created on 04 January 2012
- 14. Cryptic Crossword - Nov 11
- (November 2011)
- Justin's cryptic crossword is, from what we hear, making our readers quite cross. So to give you all some inspiration, the first person to tweet or email us a photo of the correctly completed crossword ...
- Created on 28 October 2011
- 15. Editorial - Oct 2011
- (October 2011)
- Before the Europeans had fully come to grips with that whole Earth-is-not-flat thing and there wasn’t much east of Jerusalem or south of Alexandria, Australia was no more than a concept. It even had its ...
- Created on 17 September 2011
- 16. Pornography - The View from My Pants
- (Body & Gender)
- Q and A has received a fair amount of criticism of late, not least from the Tribune’s very own Justin Shaw. While much of it may have appeared fair and reasoned at the time, it can now be revealed that ...
- Created on 30 May 2011
- 17. Editors Rant - February 2011
- (Archive)
- Well 2010 was a year that rained bullshit on us and it looks like 2011 won’t be much better, despite the blessed relief of there not being a federal election on. The hypocritical nature of big business ...
- Created on 20 January 2011
- 18. Editors Rant - December 2010
- (Archive)
- So, there was an election on the weekend. I had to get a haircut, and we had to go to the most important wedding since ours, so I’m afraid we didn’t really notice. And when we did notice we, like most ...
- Created on 06 December 2010
- 19. Mornings at Casa Del Shaw
- (Anecdotage)
- Mornings…similar to what they were before I had children, in that I am still frequently late for work, but different in that the excuses are far more complicated… Me: *lying in bed, firmly sleeping through ...
- Created on 05 December 2010
- 20. Fun with Centrelink
- (Anecdotage)
- Centrelink needs to die in a pit. The pit needs to be full of snakes and that Bear Grylls fucktard and fireants and millions of nasty bitey parasites. Then it needs to be sealed up with lead and hurled ...
- Created on 05 December 2010

