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After Oprah: what will it take to revive an Australian republic?

 Picture: Alastair Grant/AP/AAP Oprah Winfrey’s brilliantly stage-managed “tell-all” interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry was for viewers, advertisers and the three participants, a tremendous success. For the...

From Elvis to Dolly, celebrity endorsements might be the key to countering vaccine hesitancy

      Brazilian football star Pele getting the COVID vaccine in Sao Paulo. Advice of Pele/Handout/EPA The Australian government has secured close to 54 million doses of the...

‘Palace letters’ reveal the palace’s fingerprints on the dismissal of the Whitlam government

Picture: Independent Australia The “palace letters” show the Australian Constitution’s susceptibility to self-interested behaviour by individual vice-regal representatives. They also reveal the vulnerability of...

The big reveal: Jenny Hocking on what the ‘palace letters’ may tell us, finally, about The Dismissal

Picture: National Archives of Australia Forty-five years after they were written, hundreds of previously secret letters between the queen and the governor-general of Australia,...

Four things the Paradise Papers tell us about global business and political elites

Trouble in paradise: Bermuda is at the centre of the Paradise Papers leak The so-called Paradise Papers may sound familiar – leaked documents from a law...

Commonwealth Day 2017

Today we in Victoria celebrate Labor Day, but all over Australia and beyond our shores fifty-two countries come together today to celebrate Commonwealth Day...
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Mick Pacholli

Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972.  Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry. Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.