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Matthew is an academic and journalist. Presently the professor of communication at Deakin University, he was previously inaugural journalism professor at the University of Canberra between 2009 and 2017. He has also run the journalism program at RMIT for 11 years. I have worked on staff at The Australian and Time Australia magazine: his last job in the news media industry was Media and Communications Editor at The Age. He has written three books and edited two.

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Sinking in: a review of the Elon Musk’s biography and his contradictory life

Matthew Ricketson - January 6, 2024 9 MIN READ

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has his fingers in many pies, none of them your standard Four and Twenty – space exploration, electric cars, AI and social media, among others. He became a global leader in space exploration when NASA had virtually vacated the field, and his electric vehicle company Tesla, headquartered in the… Read more »

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