Amy Remeikis is a journalist, author, commentator and Australia’s best known political blogger.
She is the Chief Political Analyst at The Australia Institute based in the Canberra press gallery, a contributing editor for The New Daily, and renowned for her incisive political commentary and extensive experience as a journalist, author and former political reporter for Guardian Australia.
Amy regularly appears in national media and is noted for her powerful writing on gender, politics and social justice. She is the author of On Reckoning and Where It All Went Wrong: The Case Against John Howard and has just released her third book, Screw Nice.
Her critically acclaimed On Reckoning explores the evolving public narrative around sexual assault, and is both an intensely personal account of her own experience and a blistering call to action that has been defined as “Visceral, forensic, fierce: a lit fuse”. While Screw Nice powerfully rallies marginalised voices to forget ‘nice’ and oppose injustice loudly and impolitely to bring about change.
TESTIMONIALS
“Amy Remeikis masterfully illuminates the personal and the public to hold a mirror up to our society, political systems and treatment of those who don’t hold political or financial power to show us the time for being silenced has to end.”
_Australian National University
“Political analyst Amy Remeikis follows her bestselling On Reckoning [with Screw Nice] a take-down of what she calls “civility politics [that] lets us stand silent while we see someone with less social power than us being bullied in the classroom, society or workplace”.
It’s crammed full of examples from Australia and the US of how politicians and commentators have their say, and the way in which they do so makes for a bracing read.“
_Sydney Morning Herald