Year in review 2013
I would to thank you, the Open Forum community, for all the support you have shown throughout 2013. As readers and bloggers you play a major role in shaping the content of this website.
I think it is important to highlight some of the most successful blogs of 2013, and I encourage you to spend the festive season exploring the wealth of content we have featured over the year.
We started 2013 by discussing Travel & Tourism. This was followed by featured forums on Future of Education, Productive Ageing, Parenting, Food Sustainability and Multicultural Australia. We’ll continue to explore Health & Wellbeing in January 2014.
In May the GAP/ACHR A Future without ‘Age’ Conference was held in the NSW Parliament House, resulting in a number of blogs and keynote speeches exploring the subject. In September Global Access Partners held its Annual Growth Summit with Food Sustainability as its focal point, leading to a multitude of blogs and published speeches.
Some of our popular blogs this year were:
- Still a long way to go for Australia’s gun laws – by Samantha Lee
- Queensland Anti-Bikie Laws: A Return to the Moonlight State? – by Kate Galloway
- What is the real reason we are being told we need a new school funding model? – by Carolyn Pyne
- The future of religious education in Australia – by Dr Anna Halafoff
- Tourism Australia embraces digital marketing – by Andrew McEvoy
- Travelling in Australia: a Brazilian view – by Denise Frizzo
- Australia’s housing affordability crisis – by Janet Spencer
- Bound Together: Research shows that children with Autism are attached to their parents – by Nancy Sadka
- Overpopulation drives boats – by William Bourke
- Gender is never off the agenda while denigration of women is a national pasttime – by Kate Galloway
On behalf of Global Access Partners and the team at Open Forum I’d like to wish you all the best for the festive season. I look forward to continue discussing ideas and working with you in 2014.
![Svetlana Stankovic](https://www.openforum.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/picture-42750.jpg)
Svetlana Stankovic was the editor of Open Forum between 2013 and 2017. Prior to working for GAP, Svetlana was a freelance producer for several German speaking print, radio and TV outlets in Munich, Paris and London. Svetlana has a Master of Arts in Communication and Media Studies and a Diploma of Professional Book Editing, Proofreading and Publishing.
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January 22, 2014 at 10:57 pm
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