Co-editor Through Her Eyes, Australia's women correspondents Hiroshima to Ukraine, Hardie Grant Books. Out sept 6. Buy: https://nitter.gq/t.co/FGYgM2UJBB…
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Women have changed the way momentous events are reported. In Through Her Eyes Australia's Women Correspondents from Hiroshima to Ukraine, out Sept 6, they share stories of life as a correspondent; the risks, the suffering they witness and the joy. Co-edited with Trevor Watson
So @commbank wants you to take your complaint offline to make it look like they are helping. The offline answer: I'm sorry Melissa, our colleagues over the phone have tried to assist you with this directly and were unable to provide the outcome that you desired. It's just PR.
In @CommBank trying to transfer some money. turned away for the third time. online advice go to a branch. First branch: the teller needs to go to lunch, go to another branch. Second branch: wait one hour while they serve everyone else.
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Can't wait to see The First Inventors - brilliant doco that @WatsonTrevorJ worked on with Ben Davies, showing the power and brilliance of the first Australians. on NITV, SBS and Network 10.
Talking about Through Her Eyes and women foreign correspondents with Kylie Morris at Words at Wagstaffe. Brilliant day with smart people at a very cool tiny writers festival in a glorious waterfront town. #wordsonthewaves
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When I was 21 I was a political reporter in the Press Gallery. I knew how despicable Nazis were - I read books, watched films and tv. I went to a fancy dress party around that time - as a cat. It's that easy. #auspol
50 years after Whitlam recognised the PRC, relations may again thaw as Penny Wong visits China. Paul Raffaele, a first correspondent, writes of an often forbidding place. Read fascinating first hand stories of the rise of a superpower in The Beijing Bureau.
In stores and online.
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Reading Harold Evan’s ‘Good Times, Bad Times’ inspired me. It laid out what it meant to be a journalist. So pleased to be asked to contribute to a book that does the same. Stories from Australian women across the decades. Great holiday reading. Tks @MelissRob and @WatsonTrevorJ
Barbara Miller (ABC0 captured some of 'the first first-hand accounts of the sheer brutality of the Russian invasion' of #Ukraine. Read her compelling story of refugees fleeing the shelling in Through Her Eyes Australia's Women Correspondents Hiroshima to Ukraine.
Tracey Holmes, covering the World Cup in Qatar, grew up travelling the world with surfie counter culture parents until becoming the 'accidental correspondent' in Beijing, Hong Kong and Dubai. Read her story in Through Her Eyes Australia's Women Correspondents Hiroshima to Ukraine
Mourning Uncle Toad isn't going to be easy. It's unlikely Jiang Zemin, former #China President is really lamented. But while he ruled over the post Tiananmen crackdown, he delivered on standard of living. And unlike Xi, he stepped down at his term's end. Which might be the point
Protesters in China are incredibly brave - the surveillance system uses AI to easily identify people, even when masked. Cate Cadell of the Washing Post revealed the astonishing extent of the system and how it is trained in our book Through Her Eyes.
Cate calls the system horrifying, unnerving, "the biggest human surveillance experiment on the planet." Designed to locate "outsiders and criminals" it can "identify, categorise and follow a single person among
1.4 billion Chinese citizens."
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