Wonk News is “curated link aggregation” by its readers, for its readers. That’s you!
It’s a forum — and eventually, well may we hope, the forum — for fellow wonks, geeks and tragics to share and discuss news, policy, ideas and commentary related to Australian politics and media.
Politically, Wonk News a neutral platform, and we hope to attract readers and contributors of all political stripes. Definitely no polka dots though.
For more about our goals, please read the community guidelines. If you have any queries or suggestions, please contact the editors.
How it works
First, submit an interesting link — check the submission guidelines if you’re not 100% sure that your link is on-topic and/or appropriate.
Vote for interesting links by clicking the plus button alongside each one, so more readers find them. The freshest links, in order of submission time rather than score, can be found on the Latest page. Note that your own links automatically receive your vote.
Join the discussion by commenting on links and replying to other comments. If you think someone is not playing nice, for whatever reason, please click “Report Abuse” to alert the moderators — check the commenting guidelines for our perspective on “playing nice”. 
We’ve even built some awesome bonus features designed especially for the growing politico-tragic-media-wonk-o-sphere™ on Twitter.
Want to submit links to Wonk News without interrupting your reading? Drag-and-drop the following link to your bookmarks bar or right click it and add it to your favorites for a posting shortcut: Wonk it!
Inspiration
The programmer in me loves Hacker News by the folks at Y Combinator. One glance will demonstrate just how much it has inspired our simple, no-nonsense look and feel — but it is the quality and community of Hacker News to which Wonk News truly aspires.
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Wonk News was built by Jeff Waugh, using: WordPress, the Clamour community link aggregator, a heavily customised TwentyTen child theme, Compass for CSS acrobatics, Closure Compiler for JavaScript squishing, and your old pals Inkscape and The GIMP for pixel pushing.