I’d like to update you on our crowd-funding activities following last week’s decision by the Australian Government to end funding for The Conversation. At $1m, that represents a 25% loss to our budget.

We asked if you might help… and we’ve been blown away by your generosity with 1,000 readers donating online $190,000. We are working hard on alternative funding initiatives, though they will take some time to come through. So to buy us some time, we ask those of you who haven’t yet contributed to help us reach $300,000.

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