Buried bones
Scoops, scandals and secrets are the juicy bones that newshounds sniff out and dig up. They provide much-needed distractions from the momentous events unfolding across the nation and the globe. 2020 offered up the old favourites of party infighting, branch-stacking and alleged pork-barrelling. Headline writers got a gift with a scandal that rhymed: ‘sports rorts’. Meanwhile, buried bones of a different sort prompted the Department of Home Affairs to consider domestic surveillance. And the ‘robodebt’ debacle refused go away quietly.
The Virus
Lindsay Foyle, New Matilda,
Owing Something to Someone
Matt Golding, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age,
Roast Pork
Jon Kudelka, The Saturday Paper,
Herding Nats
Matt Golding, The Sydney Morning Herald,
Australians’ Access to Information – Redacted
Simon Kneebone, Australian Socialist,
Feeling Irrelevant
Mark Knight, Herald Sun,
Hitting the (Far) Right Note
Fiona Katauskas, Eureka Street,
The Eyes Have It
Glen Le Lievre, The Australian,
Political Pandemic
Michael Leunig, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age,
A Measure of Trust
David Pope, The Canberra Times,
Chain of Command
Cathy Wilcox, The Sydney Morning Herald,