Editor
Misha Ketchell is Editor of The Conversation. He has been a journalist for more than 20 years and in previous roles he was founding editor of The Big Issue Australia and editor of Crikey, The Reader and The Melbourne Weekly. He worked for The Age as a reporter and feature writer and spent several years at the ABC where he was a TV producer on Media Watch and The 7:30 Report and an editor on The Drum.
Let's turn down the dial on conflict and focus on solutions
Nov 28, 2023 23:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Is Australias political system doing a good job of serving its citizens? If not, how can we help it work better? These questions have become even more pressing in recent months. The war in Gaza has spilled over to...
Introducing our new series on the future of Australian higher education
Apr 14, 2023 14:02 pm UTC| Life
The Australian Universities Accord is a grandly named 12-month review seeking ideas to reform Australias higher education system for the next 30 years. Led by a prominent former vice-chancellor, Professor Mary OKane, it is...
What is public interest journalism? Providing reliable information to those who need it most
May 13, 2020 09:32 am UTC| Business
Before the arrival of the internet, most journalism was produced in pretty well-off advertising businesses. The proximity of money and public interest journalism was often a source of tension, but rarely rupture. Every now...
Australia doesn't protect free speech, but it could
Jun 07, 2019 15:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Because we are so saturated in American culture, very few Australians realise that free speech in this country isnt really a thing. It is not merely not protected its far worse than that. If you read any of the vast array...
Our Advancing Australia series is about starting a conversation about what really matters
Feb 25, 2019 04:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Follow the Advancing Australia series by subscribing to our daily newsletter, or following us on Instagram, Twitter of Facebook. These days its fashionable to take your politics with a heavy dash of cynicism. If...