National affairs
25 July 2025
The British communications regulator’s SOS for broadcast TV is a message for Australians too
Books & arts
4 February 2025
Stigmatised in the publishing world’s past, romance writers were ready for its future
National affairs
19 December 2024
The arc of the moral universe might bend towards justice but sometimes it twists along the way
Books & arts
5 August 2024
Have we reached “Peak Djokovic”?
Books & arts
24 April 2024
Connecting everything to everything else didn’t dissolve power, it embedded it
Essays & reportage
20 March 2024
Queensland premier Steven Miles is learning an old lesson about sporting venues: sometimes it is best to love the ones you have
Books & arts
3 November 2023
Weren’t these guys dying out?
Books & arts
28 June 2023
Behind their inexorable rise, mobile phones leave a landscape littered with once-mighty businesses and technological dead-ends
Books & arts
5 September 2022
Does bowing out involve a kind of “self-discipline normally associated with persistence”?
Books & arts
25 January 2022
Elon Musk has cast a spell across global business and investment. Someone needed to
Books & arts
23 August 2021
“We should be civil with those we don’t know, and aim to know them well enough that we can be uncivil,” argues a new book
Books & arts
13 July 2021
Rules or no rules? The Tech Giants have made some of their own.
National affairs
8 December 2020
The government’s media reform green paper raises big issues. But should it be thinking even bigger?
Books & arts
30 November 2020
Books | The links have been quietly developing for decades, but there’s still much more Australia can learn from its nearest eastern neighbour
Books & arts
22 November 2019
Books | As Disney+ sets out to teach Netflix and others about streaming video, the chief executive of Walt Disney’s company shares lessons learned on the way to the top
From the archive
16 August 2019
The Russell Square twins, Fabberdum and Fabberdee, Fabber & Fabber — whatever the nickname, the story of the famed London publisher reveals a lot about how creative…
National affairs
1 July 2019
Should we renovate the process we have for allocating the airwaves, or knock it down and start again?
Books & arts
14 January 2019
Books | “Visionary” Sydney-born engineer Cyril Elwell played a pioneering role in what became Silicon Valley
Books & arts
7 December 2017
Books | Is Gareth Evans’s “incorrigible optimism” evidence-based?
Essays & reportage
23 October 2017
From the archive | Backers of 5G promise breathtaking speed and ultra-reliability. But does Australia need its own vision for the new wireless networks?
Books & arts
18 April 2017
Books | Joni Mitchell’s decades aren’t done yet
Books & arts
19 January 2017
Books | How can we protect free speech in a global village that’s more like a vast multicultural city?
Books & arts
21 May 2015
What might television look like in a year’s time, in a few years’ time, in a decade? Jock Given, Michael Brealey and Cathy Gray asked…
Books & arts
2 July 2014
Three police shows axed in just one year. For some observers, it seemed like much more than a coincidence, writes Jock Given
National affairs
16 May 2014
In the online age, every national broadcaster is an international broadcaster, writes Jock Given. So it’s strange to find that the government wants to restrict the…
Books & arts
6 May 2014
The Australian Open pivots to Asia, writes Jock Given
Books & arts
22 October 2013
Is there anything the National Broadband Network can learn from the thirteen-year transition to digital TV? Yes, says Jock Given
Books & arts
6 September 2013
What can Australians do? They used to make radios, TV sets and Volkswagens, writes Jock Given. After 2016, they won’t even be making Falcons
Essays & reportage
30 April 2013
By the end of the year, Australia’s cinema industry will no longer be a film industry. Jock Given looks at what this means for storytelling on the big screen
Books & arts
26 February 2013
Books | Three players, three hard slogs. Jock Given on the golden age of Australian tennis