
440 – Kangaroo Island News, Satire, and Frontier Journalism
Award-winning journalist Dan Clarke joins us from Kangaroo Island to talk about frontier-style journalism in a community where you’ll meet your subjects in the IGA checkout line, why satire might be the gentlest way to tell hard truths, and the long saga of a ferry called Ruwi, before Steve Davis and the Virtualosos sign off with a satirical song about a River Torrens platypus that may or may not exist. Somewhere in an Indonesian shipyard, a new ferry for Kangaroo Island went quiet for three weeks. Dan Clarke, former South Australian Journalist of the Year, double Kennedy Award winner and Walkley winner, arrives with breaking news: Ruwi is back on the tracking signal. From there we cover his start as a messenger at The Advertiser, his move to the island, and his running of Island Independent and the Kangaroo Island News and Satire page. We also talk about why a
