During the general silence that has enveloped this blog, I have written two opeds in The Age.

The first, “Media faces an unsentimental future” explores the consequences of private equity for the media sector, and whether it may be able to help the sector adjust to changes in technology and consumption patterns.

Today, “On telecoms, regulator chuting blanks” (with IPA colleague Alan Moran) uses the rural broadband subsidy to criticise broadband policy more generally.

Other things shortly: Over the last few weeks I’ve been writing like a manic.