Catriona Menzies-Pike

@catri

Editor . Living and loving on Gadigal land.

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Joined December 2008
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    Feb 23

    In our first editorial of the year, and reflect on the road ahead. Things are changing at Peril--read through 'as we contemplate a future that we hope is full of beginnings, but may also be full of endings.'

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  2. Feb 23

    'He remembers everything, Richard says — including that famous night during the war when tenor player Merv Acheson shot a bloke on stage at the 2KY Radiotorium over a missing shipment of illegal whisky. Jimmy was there, Richard says, picked up the still hot spent shell.'

    'I once spent about a hundred million hours poring over old issues of Australian music magazines of the 1940s and 50s. I was looking for that Holy Grail of rock’n’roll writing: the secret history.' New on the SRB: THE LAST BOOGIE WOOGIE by Peter Doyle:
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    Feb 23

    Applications for our Hot Desk Fellowships close at 5pm today – make sure to get yours in!

    Illustration of a person at a desk, bird’s eye perspective.
    The Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowships are back for 2020 – and applications are now open. Twenty writers will be offered fellowships throughout the year – including a $1000 stipend, and a workspace in our building for a ten-week period.
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  4. Feb 23

    Also, what other tools have been used here to measure reader sentiments with regard to the Baird column. Moderated comments? FB comments? Phone calls to the editor? Might not seem vital but to me, the weakness of the analysis of The Internet rests on such wishywashyness.

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  5. Feb 23

    Hence, I guess, the argument that the Twitter rabble doesn't represent the decorous quiet majority of SMH/Age readers. But what does 'our websites' mean. Does it include Domain/Drive/Weatherzone/RSVP - or just the masthead domains? Big, important difference, I'd have thought

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  6. Feb 23

    Here's the line: 'Certainly, Twitter is a negligible source of readers for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. In January, for example, people clicking through links posted on Twitter accounted for only 1 per cent of traffic on our websites.' Doesn't sound like much.

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  7. Feb 23

    So the pernicious online Twitter bubble/narcissism of small differences/bring back civility line doesn't hold up for me either - but the revelation that only 1% of SMH/Age web traffic comes via Twitter did get my attention.

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  8. Feb 21

    Woohoo some good news for once. Big congrats to for this award!

    UWA Publishing and are thrilled to announce Karen Wyld's 'Where the Fruit Falls' as the winner of the 2020 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript! The novel will be published in October this year. More info:
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  9. Feb 21

    It's been a (very) long week but I am pretty happy with the five (5!) essays we rustled for the SRB. Here's how they line up... And better yet, once you're done admiring the image, you can read them all for free via the SRB homepage. No paywall! Imagine that?

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  10. Feb 20

    Yep, they really did bring in Mark Latham to opine about AVOs and family violence. This is dangerous and irresponsible programming. Do better, Channel 7.

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  11. Feb 20

    If you want to complain about the appalling decision of to solicit the views of Mark Latham with regard to the brutal murder of Hannah Clarke and her children, here's the form. Link to the Sunrise story next tweet in thread, along with a TW

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  12. Feb 20

    If you want to contact the Australian Honours and Awards Secretariat to complain (for the second time, perhaps) that an award to Bettina Arndt degrades the 'high standards of the honours system', here's how to do it.

    Congratulations to the Queensland police for keeping an open mind and awaiting proper evidence, including the possibility that Rowan Baxter might have been “driven too far.” But note the misplaced outrage. How dare police deviate from the feminist script of seeking excuses...
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  13. Feb 20

    'I feel as torn over the moralism of the k-punk project now as I did then — and of course, that moral ferocity was essential to the work’s purpose and power.' Anwen Crawford gathered an *amazing* group of writers to talk about Mark Fisher and k-punk.

    24 HOUR THEORY PEOPLE: This is the first of three instalments of a conversation between Anwen Crawford, Simon Reynolds, Rhian E. Jones, Ivor Southwood, Carl Neville and Owen Hatherley about Mark Fisher, the blogosphere and the k-punk anthology
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  14. Feb 20

    What a disgrace. Hard to see this as anything but an expression of contempt for DV survivors and for the grieving family and friends of Hannah Clarke. How could anybody at Sunrise or indeed Seven possibly stand by this decision?

    Wow Sunrise actually had Latham on discuss domestic violence and the horrific murder of Hannah Clarke and her three children. Whatever tiny amount of good is achieved by the media (in the case of Seven I struggle to think of an example) is so clearly outweighed by the evil.
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  15. Feb 20

    Oliver's 2019 SRB essay Train Lord is also devoted to his time on the trains, to creative work and ambition. It's fab.

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  16. Feb 20

    Finally got to listen to 's RN story about working as a City Rail guard and recovering from a very long migraine.

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  17. Feb 20

    Keep 'em coming. I'm not on the judging panel for these fellowships but I do get to read all the applications, and it's a task I look forward to greatly. Who are the judges? The all-star panel comprises Suneeta Peres da Costa, Justin Clemens and Alison Whittaker.

    Applications are due on SUNDAY (that's 23 Feb) for the 2020 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowship program. We're awarding five $3000 fellowships this year. Follow the link for details about the fellowship and info on how to apply (it's an easy process!)
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  18. Feb 18

    Big news. And it means the short and longterm budget headaches caused by the coronavirus visa clusterfuck will be someone else’s problem

    Breaking: Michael Spence to step down as vice-chancellor of Sydney University after 12 years via
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  19. Feb 18

    What a fitting farewell to Manning Bar: an all night star-studded hot-take bonanza! Intergenerational sledges! Cross-campus grudge match action! Boozy back-in-my-day nostalgia! Plus ça change... Well played, all.

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    Feb 17

    She ‘knew and wanted to do the right thing, and was prepared to do it as long as it didn’t inconvenience her too much’. This is something I've been working on for a while, and I'm proud to have it up on the great-looking new SRB site.

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