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Eureka Street is an Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n magazine
Magazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 concerned with public affairs, arts, and theology started in 1989 by Michael Kelly SJ, Morag Fraser, and Adrian Lyons SJ. It was published in paper format for 15 years and was an opinion-forming magazine for many of those years. Since 2006, it has become an online-only magazine
Online magazine
An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, but can usually be distinguished by its approach to editorial control...

.

The magazine is part of Jesuit Communications, the communications arm of the Australian Jesuit
Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...

 Province. However, the magazine has a tradition of being strongly secular and inclusive.

The chief editor is Michael Mullins and the assistant editor is Tim Kroenert.

Writers

Writers of note for the magazine have included Margaret Simons
Margaret Simons
Margaret Simons is an Australian academic, freelance journalist and author. She is currently the media commentator for Crikey and has written ten books.-Career:...

, Peter Roebuck
Peter Roebuck
Peter Michael Roebuck was an English cricketer who achieved later renown as an Australian newspaper columnist and radio commentator. A consistent county performer with over 25,000 runs, and "one of the better English openers of the 1980s", Roebuck captained the English county side Somerset...

, David Corlett, Jack Waterford, Brett McBean
Brett McBean
Brett McBean is best known as an award winning Australian horror and speculative fiction writer. He was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, and he is a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association...

, Andrew Hamilton SJ, Frank Brennan SJ, Anthony Ham, Tim Thwaites, Ray Cassin, Bishop Gregory O'Kelly SJ, Morag Fraser, Shahram Akbarzadeh, Clive Hamilton
Clive Hamilton
Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA is an Australian public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University. He is the Founder and former Executive Director of the The...

and many others.

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