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Tom Greenwell

Tom Greenwell is a Canberra-based teacher and writer, and a Professional Associate of the News and Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra.

Books & arts Tom Greenwell 15 August 2023 Two new books reveal the intriguing origins of Rupert Murdoch’s global empire
Books & arts Tom Greenwell 2 June 2023 An enterprising school principal mistakes mastering the system for fixing it National affairs Tom Greenwell 19 April 2023 Parental choice or equitable access? There’s a way of reconciling the two National affairs Tom Greenwell 11 August 2020 Adrian Piccoli’s plan to fully fund non-government schools would reduce educational inequality Essays & reportage Tom Greenwell 27 May 2020 Journalists keep losing their jobs, but politicians on all sides are refusing to face the consequences
From the archive Tom Greenwell 24 April 2020 Bestselling historian Paul Ham stands by allegations that anti–Vietnam war activists confronted veterans at airports and in the streets. But where’s the evidence?
Essays & reportage Tom Greenwell 9 April 2020 The success of Canada’s education system can help us rethink our own From the archive Tom Greenwell 24 January 2020 The decades-long expansion of public funding to private schools has done the opposite of what its proponents claim Essays & reportage Tom Greenwell 9 December 2019 Only fifteen minutes from Parliament House, four Canberra schools reveal the growing segregation in Australian education — and how government policy is at its heart National affairs Tom Greenwell 1 October 2019 Uncertain goals and doubts about effectiveness have prompted a major reappraisal
Essays & reportage Tom Greenwell 31 July 2019 The purists are lamenting while the boosters (and bashers) cheer, but Canberra’s transformation may be more inspired than either camp acknowledges
Books & arts Tom Greenwell 17 April 2019 Books | Was the Vietnam war a failed but noble bid to save a free nation, or a stubborn attempt to thwart self-determination? National affairs Tom Greenwell 26 February 2019 The Morrison government ignores the case for expanding access to preschool education at its peril Essays & reportage Tom Greenwell 17 January 2019 Gonski called time on Australia’s “industrial” model of “mass education.” But does the diagnosis — and the prescription — reflect classroom reality? Books & arts Tom Greenwell 9 January 2019 Books | Matthew Hindman offers illumination for a disillusioned age
National affairs Tom Greenwell 15 May 2018 The unions are on the march again, but this time Labor’s laws are in their sights
National affairs Tom Greenwell 7 March 2018 The former NSW education minister says Australia has a cultural problem when it comes to schooling Essays & reportage Tom Greenwell 6 February 2018 Dutch news site De Correspondent represents a radical challenge to traditional journalistic practice. Now, it’s about to launch in the United States Essays & reportage Tom Greenwell 28 September 2017 Could a new model of online learning break down the growing divide between Australian schools? Essays & reportage Tom Greenwell 29 June 2017 State support for the press is commonplace in Europe, and it doesn’t appear to inhibit journalists. But does it bring real benefits?
National affairs Tom Greenwell 15 May 2017 With Labor implacably opposed, the Greens must play a positive role in the Senate
Tom Greenwell 11 May 2017 Recent events have revealed the power of the asbestos industry – and, in Indonesia, a powerful determination to fight it International Tom Greenwell 13 April 2017 More than 100,000 people die from asbestos-related disease each year, but the global asbestos industry continues to thrive. An African diplomatic initiative could be the first… National affairs Tom Greenwell 15 March 2017 New PISA results confirm that the social makeup of schools affects the performance of individual students Essays & reportage Tom Greenwell 1 February 2017 Schools in Australia and New Zealand set off in opposite directions in the 1970s. Tom Greenwell looks at where they have ended up
Books & arts Tom Greenwell 28 November 2016 Books | Bernie Sanders’s critique of American democracy assumes heightened relevance in the Trump era International Tom Greenwell 15 November 2016 Votes across America to increase the minimum wage may point the way forward International Tom Greenwell 28 October 2016 Behind the high-profile presidential race, Americans will be voting on hundreds of proposals to change the law on 8 November Essays & reportage Tom Greenwell 13 September 2016 A historic shift has given readers the edge over advertisers in determining the news media’s viability, writes Tom Greenwell. But what will that mean in practice?