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Welcome to Edgenotes.au

Edgenotes.au: Thoughtful. Independent. Unfiltered.

After nearly four decades as a journalist, communicator and observer of people, business and politics, I realised I still had something to say. Edgenotes.au is where experience meets curiosity, ideas are tested rather than shouted, and writing returns to its real purpose—to make people think.

Read: The Writer Never Left

The Long View

Big picture thinking. Policy, politics, economics, leadership.

Explorers have committed more than $1.2 billion to the Taroom Trough between Chinchilla and Roma. Canberra should start planning the refining and transport infrastructure now — before the drilling results are in.

Notes From The Edge

Observations, ideas and the occasional tangent.

Edge Notes is now on Substack. Not a move away from edgenotes.au — that remains the independent home. This is about making it easier to find, follow and share.

Fault Lines

Politics, policy, energy, agriculture and the cracks in the argument.

Two foreign-controlled companies now hold more than 10 per cent of Australia's northern cattle country. The question is whether public policy is preserving enough space for independent producers.

Ground Truth

Industry, workplaces and the coalface view.

I asked AI what it thought about AI. The answer was more honest than most humans would manage — and more unsettling.

Inner Compass

Resilience, relationships, identity and the business of being human.

We are taught that family is where love begins. But what happens when the family we have bears little resemblance to the family we need?

The Fifth Quarter

Sport beyond the scoreboard — people, culture and community.

A record wave of debutants headlines the AFLW weekend. The stories behind the numbers are worth knowing.

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