My sincere thanks to all who made a contribution to our June fundraising appeal with the terrific team at the Australian Cultural Fund.

As many will know, we exceeded our target and are looking forward to new and renewed initiatives now made possible. We will have more to say on this in coming weeks. My thanks also to those loyal readers and authors who were not in a position to contribute financially, but who offered practical assistance and sent lovely messages. Your generosity means we can continue to supply independent news and opinion, on issues that really matter.

This morning, the chair of Transparency........

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