Reporting crime is standard fare for most daily newspapers. But what happens when they get the data so complete wrong that it’s a close to a lie as you can get without your pants catching on fire? “More women are getting drunk on Sydney streets than ever before” Makes a…
Jenna Price, one of the co-ordinators of Destroy the Joint, in reply to Helen Razer's post yesterday about feminism. Note: While we are more than happy to post Jenna's reply, The Tribune will not be running any more pieces on this debate. We strongly support feminist principles and strong, reasonable discussion, but we…
Helen Razer, one of my favourite writers and even more favourite people, wrote a post yesterday about feminism. I disagreed with her, she suggested I post it here. So here it is. Helen, you know how much I love you, your brain-the-size-of-a-planet and your magnificent ability to scorch the earth…
This article from the Telegraph is profoundly disturbing. It starts with the beyond tragic story of a 13 year old girl's death. She fell from a window as she begged a boy standing on the footpath below her, not to share a video of her performing a sexual act that…
After 5 years, we are finally and very sadly, going to have to put an end to the hard copy edition of The King’s Tribune. Why is this happening? As you probably know, we did a fundraising push at the end of last year, trying to raise enough money to…
I was re-reading George Megalogenis' magnificent book, The Longest Decade last night. A particular passage caught my eye, he was discussing the lead up to the 1993 election, when Labor was trailing in the polls, 34 to 52. Recession, scandal and leadership squabbles had damaged the Labor brand. Hewson was…
Transparency is important. We asked for your money and you responded - overwhelmingly. So it's only fair that you know what we did with it. The aim of the campaign was to clear some debt so we could keep going. Which it did, mostly. We also offered to publish a…
"Why are you promoting your competition?" I know it was well-intentioned, but this was a DM I received just after I tweeted a link to one of @IndependentAus series of investigations into the Ashby/Slipper debacle I’m grateful for the support and the best wishes for our success, but confused by the premise. Independent Australia…
This article from our November issue contained a sentence that was deliberately vile and offensive. The decision to publish it was based on my understanding that the sentence was deeply wrong, but that it was satirical, designed to highlight the kind of cheap and easy outrage the article was deriding.…
Without wishing to get over confident, the crowdsourcing thing we’re doing seems to be going pretty well so far. I’m quietly confident that we will be going ahead with the summer reading edition of The King’s Tribune. So, we’ll kick off with a short story competition. We’ve not done much…
Against all the odds and everything anyone has ever said about the likelihood of successfully launching a magazine in the digital age, The Tribune is about to become financially viable. Which means we can continue to publish – as long as we maintain, or even raise, the standards that have…
Ok, I'm sick and cranky and there's no one here to drag me away from the Internet so… < rant > I absolutely agree that writers MUST be paid and I walk that walk whenever I can, but the attitude that publishers are to blame gives me the galloping shits.…
In 2008 I wrote an article about feminism in western countries. I said that feminism had done what it set out to do here, which was to give women the same choices that men have. What women did with those choices once they had them was no one else’s business.…
There’s been so much talk about rape on the internet lately. Sometimes it’s too much. I want it to stop. I don’t want to hear about more women (and men) and the terrible, tragic, painful things that happened to them. It hurts; it makes the world seem such a dark…
We’re giving a page of the magazine to not-for-profit organisations who need help promoting their cause or event. As you may know, the Tribune does not have any paid advertising. We offer the inside front and back covers to our writers as a space to promote their projects, but apart…
Because it's still not okay to blame the victim 2PM, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 1ST SlutWalk Melbourne is back! On September 1, 2012, the second annual SlutWalk will be held at the State Library of Victoria forecourt, 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne at 2pm. SlutWalk is an action committed to ending sexual violence…
From Editorial, August 2012... An update on our comments policy: After discussion with some of our subscribers we have decided to try another approach to allowing comments on the website. One of the subscribers pointed out that being banned from commenting on the articles he pays for sounds like we…
If you know anything at all about the Tribune, you probably know that it’s quite a small thing. There are only two of us running it and our staff is composed entirely of whippets who are bone lazy and terribly bad at spelling. All of this is a slightly lame…
The inestimable Tim Dunlop and I were having coffee together a few months back and discussing internet trolls, the dangers of comments and how to run a successful website. He has years of experience in dealing with trolls, and in running successful blogs where the comments section turns into a…
There's been a bit of screeching in the blogosphere about police brutality at the OccupyMelbourne protests. It's not something I can comment on, I wasn't there, but humans being what they are, it's not impossible to believe that not everyone there was perfectly rational and well behaved. The only dealings…
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