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 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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