154 - Maddison Connaughton

Like I'm A Six-Year-Old

English - October 15, 2019 18:30 - 52 minutes - 71.9 MB - ★★★★ - 10 ratings
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Maddison Connaughton is the editor of The Saturday Paper. She's written for Vice News, SBS, The Australian, The Age and others and has been twice-nominated for the Walkley Award for Young Australian of the Year.

Here Maddison discusses why she became a journalist, her thoughts on her role as an editor and the ideological position of her paper, Ita Buttrose's comments on the loss of "larrikins" and political correctness and the dearth of new ideas in Australian political discourse.

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Check out my new podcast with Audible, What’s the Story?

I'm doing two fun gigs in Melbourne this week

I'll be performing at Just For Laughs Sydney at the Opera House on Saturday November 2nd

Felicity Ward's piece on abortion rights for The Mash Report that I helped out (a little) with

Donate to the Heart Foundation in memory of Carla Bellomarino

@madconnaughton

thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Maddison's writing for Vice

The 7am podcast (7ampodcast.com.au)

Margaret Simons' profile on Jacquie Lambie

Saturday Paper's Editorials