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Neve Mahoney was a student at RMIT university and is now a Eureka Street columnist and editor. She has also contributed to Australian Catholics and The Big Issue.
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We need no reminding of the depth of the division that exists in our Australian community. It's there every time we go online, turn on the TV, open the newspaper.
Our politics is focused on point-scoring, personalities, and name-calling across party lines. The media, for the most part, don't help, driven by the 24-hour news cycle and the pursuit of advertising dollars into a frenzy of click-bait and shallow sensationalism.
What does it mean to be an Australian in times like these? What are the values that unite us?
Eureka Street offers an alternative. It's less a magazine than a wide ranging conversation about the issues that matter in our country and our world; a conversation marked by respect for the dignity of all human beings.
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Hi Neve - great to see you taking the reins as Guest Editor for the next couple of weeks. Enjoy the experience!
Neve, I feel so sad, with your personal experiences. I have never had the honour of meeting you and have read your thoughtful, well written articles in this paper. If you had not told me of your sexual preference, I would never have known. I am the mother of a large family and frequently get flack from ;people because of my selfishness to have so many children who are polluting the atmosphere and other judgments made loudly and may I say ignorantly. I pray that you will be able to protect your self and keep writing such thoughtful, provocative articles.
David James has been a financial journalist for 28 years. He was a senior writer and columnist at BRW for 25 years, a senior journalist at AAA Banking magazine, an editor and writer for stockbroker JB Were & Sons and a journalist at The Melbourne Herald. He is author of Managing for the Twenty First Century and The Business Devil’s Dictionary. He has a PhD from Monash University: Illusions of Time in Shakespeare's Plays. He now works as a freelance journalist and editor.
Greg Foyster is a Melbourne writer and the author of the book Changing Gears.
Neve Mahoney was a student at RMIT university and is now a Eureka Street columnist and editor. She has also contributed to Australian Catholics and The Big Issue.