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Malcolm King

Malcolm King is a journalist and professional writer. He was an associate director at DEEWR Labour Market Strategy in Canberra and the senior communications strategist at Carnegie Mellon University in Adelaide. He runs a writing business called Republic.
News, civics and the Great Forgetting
Media - 6/01/2021 - 5 comments
SA Centre Alliance kills hope for university arts and humanities
Education - 14/10/2020 - 19 comments
Adelaide in ICU as economy and jobs collapse
Economics - 21/08/2020 - 22 comments
The mealy-mouthed quality in Australian life
Society - 16/06/2020 - 14 comments
Economic depression, delusion and the media
Economics - 27/04/2020 - 14 comments
Needs must when the devil drives: Coronavirus and the economy
Economics - 15/04/2020 - 28 comments
Greed and fear reign in Oz
Health - 27/03/2020 - 17 comments
Global capitalism in turmoil
Economics - 18/03/2020 - 20 comments
Auditors without professional borders
Law & Liberties - 4/12/2019 - 2 comments
Holden job spin hits the skids
Economics - 3/12/2019 - 12 comments
Adelaide is dying
Nation Building - 6/11/2019 - 18 comments
Identity politics collars fiction
The Arts - 4/11/2019 - 16 comments
Amy Taeuber fights back against Adelaide knuckle-draggers
Society - 9/10/2017 - 15 comments
It's back to 1950s in Adelaide as ALP Groupers flex muscle
Domestic Politics - 18/07/2017 - 11 comments
Graduating on to the dole in South Australia
Economics - 30/11/2016 - 6 comments
Neolibs trumped as working class flexes muscle
Economics - 18/11/2016 - 15 comments
A letter to Adelaide's youth – stay or go?
Economics - 10/11/2016 - 4 comments
Mental handcuffs and South Australia's economic future
Economics - 26/10/2016 - 8 comments
Mass unemployment stalks South Australia
Economics - 15/08/2016 - 29 comments
The Drum beaten by ABC management
Media - 7/07/2016 - 12 comments
Saint Nick Xenophon of South Australia
Domestic Politics - 9/06/2016 - 9 comments
Muhammad Ali's like will never pass this way again
Sport - 7/06/2016 - 2 comments
Cash gets 60 Minutes out of jail, for now
Media - 22/04/2016 - 63 comments
Deceptive recruiters kill off job hopes in Adelaide
Society - 17/03/2016 - 5 comments
'Age apartheid' thrives as Gov's older worker policy fails
Economics - 8/03/2016 - 1 comment
Big Data, fewer doctors
Health - 15/10/2015 - 4 comments
Mass unemployment looms over Adelaide
Economics - 27/07/2015 - 15 comments
Work from home beats home from work
Economics - 8/07/2015 - 9 comments
SA VET training hits rock bottom
Education - 2/06/2015 - 7 comments
At the going down of the RSL
Society - 17/04/2015 - 9 comments
South Australia stalls as urban decay looms
Economics - 13/04/2015 - 13 comments
Hold skilled migration until SA economy improves
Economics - 26/02/2015 - 7 comments
UCL closure kills Uni City dream in Adelaide
Education - 3/02/2015 - 4 comments
South Australia's 'unmentionable' problems
Economics - 22/01/2015 - 14 comments
Deconstructing Adelaide's construction lobby
Economics - 12/12/2014 - 12 comments
Busting myths we take for granted
Society - 10/10/2014 - 3 comments
Don't cry for me South Australia
Economics - 3/10/2014 - 31 comments
The Advertiser's days are few
Media - 18/09/2014 - 11 comments
Adelaide: decline and fall
Economics - 14/08/2014 - 20 comments
Far right snuggles up to depopulationists
Nation Building - 11/07/2014 - 88 comments
Policy implementation – get it right!
Media - 19/06/2014 - 10 comments
Adelaide - heaps indifferent! (Part 2)
Economics - 21/05/2014 - 5 comments
Adelaide – heaps indifferent! (Part one)
Society - 13/05/2014 - 10 comments
It's time for a Boomer Party
Political Philosophy - 30/04/2014 - 8 comments
Adelaide lost in space as brain pool shrinks
Economics - 24/03/2014 - 9 comments
SA Greens want fewer South Australians
Environment - 11/03/2014 - 34 comments
Recruitment industry days are numbered in Oz
Society - 28/02/2014 - 20 comments
Population ageing only half the story
Economics - 14/02/2014 - 7 comments
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan 50 years on
The Arts - 7/02/2014 - 3 comments
A rudderless ship: government's older worker policy
Society - 30/01/2014 - 25 comments
Economic knives sharpening for Adelaide
Economics - 24/10/2013 - 10 comments
Population groups attack people to save world
Nation Building - 16/10/2013 - 74 comments
Stable Population Party 'green-washing' racism
Environment - 22/08/2013 - 76 comments
Detroit lessons for South Australia
Economics - 14/08/2013 - 13 comments
Of bookshops
The Arts - 9/08/2013 - 3 comments
Stable Population cuckoos invade Australia
Environment - 4/07/2013 - 66 comments
Older job seekers gutted by policy failure
Economics - 25/06/2013 - 7 comments
Government's mature age push fades to grey
Society - 11/06/2013 - 2 comments
Community Alliance SA protects own backyard
Environment - 7/06/2013 - 26 comments
Shonky psychometric tests kill potential careers
Society - 29/05/2013 - 11 comments
Ford's closure puts pressure on GMH in Adelaide
Economics - 24/05/2013 - 30 comments
The kids will be alright with a generational future fund
Society - 10/05/2013 - 10 comments
Government's Experience+ program a fiasco - young to pay
Economics - 1/05/2013 - 3 comments
Stable Population Party: a dead vote
Domestic Politics - 10/04/2013 - 105 comments
Dog's breakfast of Corporate Champions
Society - 1/03/2013 - 3 comments
AIG job application
Humour & Satire - 19/02/2013 - 2 comments
At the barricades - Boomers vs Gen Y
Society - 14/02/2013 - 19 comments
Youth exodus bedevils Adelaide's economy
Economics - 31/01/2013 - 7 comments
Racist population fears killed by facts
Domestic Politics - 25/01/2013 - 73 comments
Unemployment – just the facts please
Economics - 18/01/2013 - 33 comments
Mayans and the end of the world
Environment - 11/12/2012 - 55 comments
No easy answers on GMH subsidy
Economics - 22/10/2012 - 7 comments
Tammy Franks ten-year time out on tax
Domestic Politics - 17/10/2012 - 9 comments
Give generational stereotypes the flick
Society - 13/09/2012 - 6 comments
University of Adelaide flags course cuts - students silent
Education - 29/08/2012 - 2 comments
Seek and you shall find age prejudice
Society - 3/08/2012 - 31 comments
At the barricades again: boomers fight age prejudice
Society - 9/07/2012 - 8 comments
The eco-fascist face of population control
Nation Building - 21/05/2012 - 47 comments
RMIT – what's going on?
Education - 27/04/2012 - 3 comments
Organisations failing as sense makers
Society - 18/04/2012
Foreign student market in tatters over Brazilian death
Society - 22/03/2012 - 19 comments
E-games: come in spinner
Science & Technology - 14/03/2012 - 2 comments
The challenge of the flipping age pyramid
Nation Building - 6/03/2012 - 14 comments
Renowned RMIT TAFE writing program dead
Education - 13/02/2012 - 6 comments
Superannuation not so super for women alone
Society - 25/01/2012 - 68 comments
There's a catch
January 2012 Feature - 18/01/2012 - 3 comments
Adelaide – Athens of the South’s long, slow decline
Society - 15/12/2011 - 33 comments
Ageing population may ground 'Flying Doc'
Society - 2/11/2011 - 1 comment
Organisations to change as Boomers work longer
Economics - 4/10/2011 - 17 comments
No man is an island: except for Senator Xenophon
Domestic Politics - 16/09/2011 - 36 comments
University City on the go in Adelaide
Education - 12/09/2011 - 10 comments
Naming and shaming - getting rid of age prejudice
Society - 5/09/2011 - 10 comments
The war against rudeness
Society - 25/08/2011 - 7 comments
How HR robs us of good leaders
Society - 19/08/2011 - 12 comments
Marshall McLuhan's message - the media is you
Media - 25/07/2011 - 5 comments
Senator X – a rolling stone gathers no policies
Domestic Politics - 18/07/2011 - 15 comments
More to a dog than tricks
Science & Technology - 5/07/2011 - 3 comments
Welcome to Country: more than a symbol
Indigenous Affairs - 26/05/2011 - 20 comments
Engage the plasma drive, Mars here we come
Science & Technology - 22/12/2010 - 9 comments
Our universities - something wicked their way comes
Education - 26/11/2010 - 27 comments
Overseas students flee Oz’s future
Education - 24/09/2010 - 21 comments
Visual media rules! The lost war against forgetting
Media - 8/09/2010 - 10 comments
Anti-sceptics dance on reason’s grave
Environment - 23/07/2010 - 115 comments
Here come the anti-populationists, there go the people
May 2010 Feature - 12/05/2010 - 36 comments
Indian student attacks: fledgling democracies can do better
Law & Liberties - 8/02/2010 - 5 comments
The cuckoos in the green movement - the anti-pops
Environment - 11/12/2009 - 39 comments
Marketing creativity as a commodity
Education - 6/11/2009 - 9 comments
Indian students - how Australia's education industry failed the PR test
Education - 25/08/2009 - 26 comments
HR - What is it good for? Absolutely nothing
Society - 13/08/2009 - 14 comments
The rise of the Snuggie
Humour & Satire - 24/06/2009 - 2 comments
Anti-populationists - the new imperialists
June 2009 Feature - 1/06/2009 - 156 comments
When heat waves become killers
Health - 21/05/2009 - 3 comments
Planet Earth - babies need not apply
Law & Liberties - 27/04/2009 - 143 comments
There's more to work than De Botton suggests
Society - 17/04/2009 - 1 comment
We have nothing to fear but hype itself
Media - 9/02/2009 - 11 comments
Bell tolls for AEU on school reform
Education - 5/01/2009 - 5 comments
Get a job! Not with HR
Society - 1/12/2008 - 31 comments
Days of Whine and Poses - the cultural left
Political Philosophy - 7/11/2008 - 17 comments
Raising an Aboriginal language from the dead
Indigenous Affairs - 15/09/2008 - 11 comments
Older job hunters and the creation of uselessness
Society - 28/08/2008 - 23 comments
TV news bashes youth and incites ignorance
Media - 13/08/2008 - 3 comments
Childless females are voting for themselves
Domestic Politics - 23/07/2008 - 29 comments
Why we ostracise - the failing Cat’s Cradle
Society - 3/07/2008 - 7 comments
A nectarine is not just a nectarine
Society - 29/04/2008 - 5 comments
CV lies and fakes - what ever it takes
Law & Liberties - 3/04/2008 - 15 comments
Sid Spindler - social justice’s brightest spark
Political Philosophy - 19/03/2008 - 4 comments
The fight for English
Education - 7/03/2008 - 42 comments
A decent proposal
Society - 29/02/2008 - 25 comments
Building a library with craft and guile
The Arts - 13/02/2008 - 5 comments
E-games - the 'Fury' and the spin
Media - 21/01/2008 - 5 comments
Virtual worlds - it's time to take out the intellectual trash
Media - 5/12/2007 - 13 comments
Krusty the Clown and the rise of Mr Xenophon
Domestic Politics - 20/11/2007 - 9 comments
Thinking of going to uni or TAFE? Ask the hard questions now
Education - 2/11/2007 - 25 comments
Three chords and the truth: punk's nostalgics
Society - 13/09/2007 - 3 comments
The Greens and Democrats - the untold story
Domestic Politics - 16/08/2007 - 48 comments
Identifying the work place psychopath
Society - 26/06/2007 - 25 comments
Human resources - what do they actually do?
Society - 25/05/2007 - 22 comments
Creative writing courses and murder: I don't like Mondays
International - 19/04/2007 - 7 comments
Creativity - appropriated by business and sold back to us
Society - 23/03/2007 - 12 comments
Par for the course - Wooyung and Fortress Australia
Society - 6/02/2007 - 7 comments
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