Breakfast with Papers

Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Gabrielle Chan, John Daley and Michael McGuire.

Gabrielle Chan has been a journalist for more than 30 years. Currently writing for Guardian Australia, she has previously worked at The Australian, ABC radio, The Daily Telegraph, in local newspapers and politics. Her new book is Why You Should Give a F*ck About Farming.

John Daley was Chief Executive of the Grattan Institute for eleven years. He has published extensively on economic reform priorities, budget policy, tax reform, housing affordability, and generational inequality. In his storied career, he has worked across law, public policy, strategy, and finance for institutions including the University of Oxford, the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, McKinsey and Co and ANZ Bank.

Michael McGuire has been a journalist for almost 25 years, working in Adelaide and Sydney. Michael has been at The Advertiser since 2008, principally working on the SA Weekend magazine. He has also written two novels. Never a True Word, published in 2017 and Flight Risk which came out last year.

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Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Jess Hill, Scott Ludlam and Michael West. 

Jess Hill is an investigative journalist and the author of See What You Made Me Do and the Quarterly Essay The Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia. She has been a producer for ABC Radio and journalist for Background Briefing, and Middle East correspondent for The Global Mail. Her reporting on domestic abuse has won two Walkley awards, an Amnesty International award and three Our Watch awards. See What You Made Me Do won the 2020 Stella Prize and the ABA Booksellers’ Choice Adult Non-Fiction Book of the Year.

Scott Ludlam was a Senator representing WA from 2008 to 2017 and served as deputy leader of the Australian Greens. He has also worked as a filmmaker, artist and graphic designer. Full Circle is his first book, the fruit of a life of activism, study and travel.

Michael West spent two decades working as a journalist, stockbroker, editor and finance commentator before striking out on his own in July 2016. After eight years as a commentator with The Australian and another eight years with the Sydney Morning Herald as a journalist and editor, Michael founded website michaelwest.com.au to focus on journalism of high public interest. Michael is a Walkley award-winner and Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney’s School of Social and Political Sciences.

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Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Clare Wright, Linda Javin and Kara Jung.

Clare Wright is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. Her book, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, won the 2014 Stella Prize. Her most recent book is You Daughters of Freedom, about the Australian suffrage movement. Clare is Professor of History at La Trobe University and co-host of history podcast Archive Fever.

Linda Jaivin has been studying Chinese politics, language and culture for more than forty years. She has been a foreign correspondent in China, and is co-editor of the China Story Yearbook, an associate of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University and the author of twelve books.

Kara Jung is an award-winning journalist and editor, including stints as political reporter for The Advertiser and Deputy Editor-in-chief for The Messenger. She is currently The Advertiser's Deputy Digital Editor, a News Corp columnist, co-chair of The Advertiser's Year of the Woman campaign and a Women in Media SA committee member.

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Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Pavlo Hunka, Sally Warhaft and Gareth Evans.

Pavlo Hunka is performing as Tsar Dodon in The Golden Cockerel in the 2022 Adelaide Festival. An internationally acclaimed opera singer, he has sung in the most prestigious opera houses in the world over the past 32 years. Pavlo is the Artistic Director of the Ukrainian Art Song Project whose aim is to record an anthology of over one thousand Ukrainian classical art songs by 29 Ukrainian composers.

Sally Warhaft is a Melbourne broadcaster, anthropologist and writer. She is the host of The Fifth Estate, the Wheeler Centre’s live series focusing on journalism, politics, media, and international relations, and The Leap Year, a Wheeler Centre podcast about Australians' lives in the fog of the COVID-19 pandemic. She is a former editor of The Monthly and the author of the bestselling book Well May We Say: The Speeches that Made Australia.

Gareth Evans, now Chancellor of the Australian National University, was a member of the Australian Parliament for 21 years, and a cabinet minister throughout the Hawke–Keating era, serving as Foreign Minister from 1988-96. He led the Brussels-based International Crisis Group from 2000-09 and has won many prizes and awards for his contributions to international policymaking. He has written or edited, solely or jointly, twelve books, most recently Good International Citizenship: The Case for Decency.

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Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Van Badham, David Barnden, Clive Hamilton.

Van Badham is a writer, theatre-maker and novelist, occasional broadcaster, critic, trade unionist and feminist. She writes columns for The Guardian and her interests include gardening, baking and dialectical materialism.

David Barnden is a Principal Lawyer at Equity Generation Lawyers, an incorporated legal practice specialising in climate change risk. David is involved in a number of public interest climate change cases in the Federal Court of Australia including representing 8 students from around Australia who brought a class action against the Federal Environment Minister to protect young people from the climate change impacts of the proposed Vickery Extension Coal Project.

Clive Hamilton is an Australian academic and author of a number of books, including Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change and Hidden Hand: How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World (with Mareike Ohlberg).  He is professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra and has held various visiting academic positions, including at Yale University, Sciences Po and the University of Oxford.

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Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Louka Parry, Lee-Ann Tjunypa Buckskin and Sean Fewster. Louka Parry Louka Parry is a learning strategist, education futurist and social entrepreneur working at the global forefront with schools, systems and organisations to help them adapt for the future. As a school teacher, he was promoted to Principal at 27 years old and was named Inspirational Public Secondary Teacher of the Year for South Australia. Now as Founder + CEO of The Learning Future, he works internationally to support positive change with a focus on innovation, future skills, leadership, wellbeing, technology and organisational culture. A rapid learner, he holds two Masters Degrees, speaks five languages and recently completed a fellowship at Stanford’s school. You’ll normally find him nerding out on ideas, running trails, playing music and generally exploring with a rather insatiable and problematic curiosity.  Lee-Ann Tjunypa Buckskin Lee-Ann Tjunypa Buckskin is a Narungga, Wirangu, Wotjobaluk woman and lives in South Australia. Lee-Ann is well known throughout the Australian and international Indigenous and arts communities and has worked across many major events and festivals, and she has been at the forefront of developing and delivering strong Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and cultural programs for public audiences in Australia. Lee-Ann is the appointed Deputy Chair of the Australia Council for the Arts, an advisory member of The Art Gallery of South Australia and for Tarnanthi, the Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Visual Arts in Adelaide.  Sean Fewster Sean Fewster is The Advertiser's chief court reporter, and has covered most of Adelaide's major criminal trials for the past 18 years. He is the author of the bestselling true crime book City of Evil, which was adapted into a top-rating TV miniseries by Channel 9 and Foxtel in 2018. Sean also provides analysis of the criminal justice system every week on FiveAA.

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Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Penny Wong, Rick Sarre and Lisa Woolford Rick Sarre Emeritus Professor Rick Sarre has degrees in law and criminology from universities in Adelaide, Toronto, and Canberra, and in 2015 was awarded an honorary doctorate from Umeå University, Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology. He is a Professorial Fellow of the Australian Institute of Police Management. He retired as the Dean of Law at the School of Law, University of South Australia, in 2020. Penny Wong Senator Penny Wong is the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labor Leader in the Senate. Born in Malaysia, Penny moved to Adelaide with her family as a child. She has been a proud representative of South Australia in the federal Parliament since 2001. Penny served as Minister for Climate Change and Water and then Minister for Finance and Deregulation during the Rudd and Gillard Governments – when she also became the first woman to lead the Government in the Senate. Penny lives in Adelaide with her partner and their two daughters. Lisa Woolford Lisa Woolford is News Corp’s Deputy National TV editor and Head of Entertainment SA. She’s been an entertainment journalist for more than five years, sharing exclusive A-list interviews and guiding viewers through the best each week in free-to-air, streaming and subscription television. She has more than 25 years’ experience in journalism - including editing the Whyalla News. When she’s not chatting with the leading lights of screen, stage and song, she’s navigating life as a mum of two teen daughters.  

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David Marr David Marr is a writer and journalist who has covered politics and the arts for many years in Australia. He is the author of a couple of biographies including a life of Patrick White. He has written for a number of papers, most recently The Guardian and broadcasts for the ABC.  Debbie Whitmont Debbie Whitmont is a journalist, author, former Middle East correspondent and senior reporter for the ABC’s Four Corners. She is a former lawyer and has won a number of awards for her reports on asylum seekers and indigenous affairs. Michael McGuire Michael McGuire has been a journalist for almost 25 years, working in Adelaide and Sydney. Michael has been at The Advertiser since 2008, principally working on the SA Weekend magazine. He has also written two novels, Never a True Word, published in 2017 and Flight Risk which came out last year.

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Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Rhana Devenport, Greg Mackie and Lauren Novak  Rhana Devenport Rhana Devenport ONZM is the Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia and the first woman to hold this position. She is a museum director, curator, editor, and cultural producer whose career spans art museums, biennials and arts festivals.  As former Director of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki she, in 2017, curated the work of Lisa Reihana for the New Zealand Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Prior to that she was Director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, leading to the development of the Len Lye Centre. In Australia she worked on the first four Asia Pacific Triennials at Queensland Art Gallery. Her curatorial interests include contemporary art of Asia and the Pacific, time-based media and social practice. Greg Mackie Greg Mackie is CEO at The History Trust of SA, and is an Adelaide City Councilor, with an abundance of cultural service to his credit. As co-founder of the iconic Imprints Booksellers, Greg served many years as Chair of Adelaide Writers’ Week and founded the Adelaide Festival of Ideas in 1999. He headed up Arts SA for many years and was Deputy CE in the Premier’s Department and SA’s ‘Ageing Provocateur’ before a successful consultancy practice. Greg received an OAM in 2002, the Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Cultural Leadership Award and the Bettison James Award in 2016.   Lauren Novak  Lauren Novak is Social Policy Editor for The Advertiser and Sunday Mail, where she began her career as a cadet in 2005.  Lauren spent more than seven years as a State Political Reporter before specialising in her current role in coverage of child protection and domestic violence policy, for which she has won state and national awards.  She is also an Our Watch Walkley Foundation Fellow and a Board Director with Zahra Foundation Australia, which helps victims of domestic violence gain financial independence.

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Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from John Spoehr, Sarah Larsen and Greg Barila. John Spoehr Professor John Spoehr is Pro-Vice Chancellor - Research Impact at Flinders University and Director of the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute. John leads a multi-disciplinary team focusing on industry and workplace transformation in the context of technological change and innovation. He has over 25 years' experience as a social and economic analyst focussing on employment and industry policy, inequality and social justice. He is actively involved in the development of industry, government and community research partnerships at a local, national and international level. Sarah Larsen  Sarah Larsen is one of the most experience kids’ news producers in the world. She has worked for 13 years with the ABC’s children’s news program, Behind the News, as a reporter and a presenter and now she's the series producer. Sarah has also produced and directed several long-form documentaries for children and teenagers, including a series on media literacy. She grew up in the Adelaide Hills and started her career in journalism at Messenger Newspapers and has also lived worked in some far-flung places, from a gold mine in Australia’s Tanami Desert to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. Greg Barila Greg Barila is the Premium Content Editor at The Advertiser. It's Greg's job to co-ordinate the newsroom's efforts to produce high-quality journalism that aims to attract new subscribers and retain existing subscribers. Greg oversees a team comprising a web developer, graphic designer and videographer to develop story packages that can include everything from maps and interactive data tables to charts, games, videos and podcasts. He is a coffee snob, a TV addict and a pretty average drummer.

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