Last month, Country Press Australia (CPA) — the largest representative association of newspaper publishers in Australia — appeared before a joint hearing in Canberra into social media and its impacts on Australian society.

The tourism body has been forced to close at the EOFY due to a lack of funding

As cars carried their thousands of passengers to footy games and families blissfully rode mountain bikes beneath the falling leaves of deciduous trees in the countryside on a magnificent autumn weekend, I pumped a purposely made playlist full of songs about revolutions and uprisings, pain and empowerment on my car stereo.