Margaret Simons is an award-winning freelance journalist and the author of seven books and numerous essays and articles. She is also a part-time lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology.
Her most recent work includes The Content Makers — Understanding the Future of the Australian Media, published by Penguin in September 2007, and Faith, Money and Power — What the Religious Revival Means for Politics, published by Pluto, also in September 2007.
The Content Makers was longlisted for the non-fiction book award in the 2008 Walkley Awards. Simons has previously been a finalist in the 2007 Walkley Awards for journalism (magazine feature writing category) for her essay ‘Buried in the Labyrinth’, published by Griffith Review.
Simons’ other work includes her prize-winning examination of the Hindmarsh Island bridge affair, The Meeting of the Waters, which was published in 2003. She also wrote Latham’s World, an investigation into the then Leader of the Opposition, Mark Latham, published in the lead up to the 2004 federal election.
Join a panel of leading media commentators and analysts as they turn their eye to Hackgate and its reverberations.
Barbara Gunnell and Margaret Simons explore power, truth and responsibility via Assange, Wikileaks and their foes.
Fran Kelly leads Malcolm Fraser, Malcolm Turnbull, Lindsay Tanner and Margaret Simons through a critique of Australia...
Malcolm Fraser Part One
The Wheeler Centre Gala 2012: Stories to Believe In
Transport and Movement
On the Waterfront
Arts and Culture
City and Urban Planning
David Holmgren on Retrofitting the Suburbs for Sustainability
