Jacqueline Maley
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Columnist and Senior Writer, Sydney Morning Herald and Age, novelist, lady-about-town
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I’m at Auckland airport and the whole, busy place just stopped for the call to prayer and two minutes silence. I love New Zealand.
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Genuine question: How come the government was able to so quickly turn around a self-promoting ad about the bushfire response, yet we haven't seen any govt ads on basic hygiene, telling people they don't need to hoard, and what they should do if they think they have this virus?
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On Pell: some people say it's implausible he abused boys with so many people about. Almost in plain sight. I wonder if those people also question how Pell never noticed Ridsale's years of abuse while living with him. That abuse also happened in "plain sight". Under Pell's nose
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The Australian has written today that the High Court inquiry into Dyson Heydon’s conduct didn’t hear “one word” from the former judge. That is because he declined to be interviewed or give a statement. The investigator said no adverse inference would be drawn from that decision
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So glad the Australia Day honours process has been in no way politicised. I wonder if Arndt's citation will include the time she gave a platform to and defended a convicted pedophile, describing his child-victim as "sexually provocative"
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I dig the mutual respect evident in this shot
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Seems like a good moment in time to discourage the study of history
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As women we love it when our wombs are ordered according to a class-based merit system
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Quite astounding really that the Prime Minister would appoint someone who has publicly expressed bitter, deeply personal feelings about family law, and whose son has been embroiled in a messy family law matter, to reside over an inquiry into it.
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Major investigation from
@Kate_McClymont
and myself about to drop, on one of Australia's pre-eminent legal figures. Go to
@smh
to read
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I will remember Alan Jones for the time I asked him a question at an anti-carbon tax rally (if he had been paid to attend it) and he got really angry about it, and strongly encouraged the crowd to also be angry about it - shouting my name through his mic. It wasn't pleasant.
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On the one hand, yep, Gladys is human.
On the other, she secretly accepted and even encouraged the constant deal-making of her boyfriend, who was leveraging his relationship to the government she led.
All for his personal enrichment - not the people of NSW
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Just so we're all clear: please note that the "If it saves one child" reasoning is valid for a public child sex offenders register but *not* for pill testing.
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Shout out to
@JuliaGillard
who stayed silent and gracious post-Prime Ministership. Maybe the blokes should try the dignified retreat thing, if they can manage it?
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I just discovered that Enid Lyons (first female federal MP and a Liberal) had TWELVE children. So when John Howard said 50/50 parliament representation was unlikely because women had caring duties at home, he wasn't thinking of our girl Enid smashing it with a full DOZEN at home
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Soon I will lodge a complaint with the Ombudsman/Ita Buttrose about the fact that the people on Escape to the Country NEVER end up buying a house in their tree change location. This is revealed only in the fine print as the credits roll and I realise I've been lied to yet again
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Markle is called a “divorcee”, and we are reminded how edgy it is for a royal to marry one. No one mentions the fact the divorcee is marrying into a family that literally invented divorce back in the 1530s, before turning it into a bloodsport. My column:
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This is magnificent
This small group of kids started an impromptu haka in tribute to two of their peers slain in the Christchurch shooting. Soon they were joined by scores of fellow students to form a deafening chorus.
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Funny how those who attack Rosie Batty only manage to further highlight the misogyny she seeks to expose
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And so Alex just goes and captures the day with one picture while the rest of us chumps are labouring over words
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Imagine the ire from some quarters if a Muslim religious leader showed this kind of disregard for "our" legal system
Sydney Archbishop says don't be 'too quick to judge' George Pell
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Would have loved to go to the pub today! But was homeschooling …
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From
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and me: Dyson Heydon, former High Court judge, is a serial sexual harasser, a High Court inquiry has found. Our wider investigation finds the allegations are not confined to the court:
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As I sit in the so-called Canberra Bubble listening to talk of the Canberra Bubble, I feel bad for bubbles, who used to be associated with joyful things like champagne, blowing bubbles and Rice Bubbles. They don't deserve this
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Colleague just walked past me and said "G'day Maley". A beat passed and then he said: "But not like that! I don't mean it in that way!"
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Holy hell!
Congratulations to
@JacquelineMaley
&
@Kate_McClymont
, winners of the Print/Text: News Report category, supported by
@MediaSuper
, for “‘Dirty Dyson’: A harasser on the High Court” in
@smh
and
@theage
#walkleys
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The night before NSW opens up, the homeschooling and/or working mums of the state should be allowed out early, to roam the streets in giant hordes, devouring food and liquor, leaving merry devastation in their path. Babysitting paid for by the taxpayer
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When Morrison announced the arts funding, he couldn’t bring himself to acknowledge that it was for violinists, actors, dancers, comedians, playwrights, or anyone else whom he suspects might have once worn a black skivvy to a university party. My column:
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If I never hear about that Folau fellow again I’d be okay with that
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"This is just one of the problems with corrupt politicians: they corrupt the electorate. Their dodgy behaviour distorts the judgment of citizens. They deploy power in ways that punish the virtuous and reward only those who play their game":
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Nostalgia for the last time bros Cormann and Hockey were in the news together.
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Beginning to think my family causes Covid outbreaks by booking fun holidays we look forward to for months
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This is the story of so many mums who gave up their ambitions to care for others
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My kid's school is having a Mother's Day gift stall on Friday
The only people who have volunteered to staff it are....mothers
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At the risk of angering David Leyonhjelm who thinks breeders are a drain on society, I must note that the mothers (and yes dads too) of Australia owe Jenny Macklin a debt - she was instrumental in introducing Paid Parental Leave, among other things.
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Outgoing Race Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane's parting shots: He calls The Australian an "alt-right rag" and a "poor man's Breitbart" and says the IPA wasted members' money on a fruitless campaign against s18C. He doesn't hold back:
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Front page today - not one I ever thought I'd see, let alone have a byline on, when I was studying Heydon's brilliant judgements at law school
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And commiserations to all the angry men triggered by her 😔
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When people talked about the transactional costs of another leadership spill, few of us factored in an international feud between Scott Morrison and Pamela Anderson
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Scott Morrison has decided two federal officials who helped clear the Ruby Princess for disembarkation will not appear before the inquiry into the debacle:
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A remarkable thing just happened to me. I went to Woolies and realised, at the checkout, I had forgotten to bring bags. So I actually *just shoved my groceries in my handbag* and walked outta there with my shallots and a feeling of smugness. Friends, I’ve never felt more alive
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Some personal news, as they say: I am publishing my debut novel, The Truth About Her, with HarperCollins next year. Long have I harboured literary pretensions, thrilled
@catherinefmilne
is taking them seriously. I'm very excited and thankful 🙏
🎉 BOOK NEWS! 🎉 We're thrilled to announce that we've acquired
@JacquelineMaley
's debut novel, The Truth About Her, to be published in early 2021.
Read more about the book:
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Or: Pregnant woman walks around
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There are parts of the new socialist order I could get used to
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Justice Lucy McCallum in the Lehrmann trial has made it very clear that we can report this aborted trial result then not say a word more.
Any commentary at all can prejudice a new trial and lead to contempt of court charges
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I know there are historical reasons for this but I STILL can't get over how anti-democratic it is to have elections on a weekday, when people have to run kids to school, get buses to far-off workplaces, or are stuck at home without relatives to help get them to a polling booth
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"Scott Morrison's local soccer club embarked on a building project costing more than half a million dollars in October, more than a month before sport grants were announced, without having enough funding to complete the project":
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Even the gutter is a socialist now. They truly are everywhere
Bronwyn Bishop: I thought it was the most selfish and cowardly speech I've ever heard from a leader of a political party. The reason he wants those 43 names is for vindictive pursuit. He has dragged the party into the socialist gutter.
MORE:
#pmlive
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How come politicians never resign anymore? My Sunday column this week:
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Hard to take seriously Morrison's Cabinet reset yesterday when Andrew Laming remains in the Liberal party, and sitting in the party room
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Attack is the best form of defence, and the most predictable tactic of a politician who knows he has a weak argument
.
@mjrowland68
asks Federal Health Minister
@GregHuntMP
why he attached a Liberal Party logo to a Government announcement about COVID-19 vaccines.
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Nothing but admiration for
@dylanwelch
for trying to do what I thought journalists were supposed to do - get ministers to actually answer questions in detail, rather than give the bland one-size-fits-all nothing-responses they usually do:
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The full quotation from Dyson Heydon on children “consenting” to sexual offences and being “evil beyond their years” when they fabricate sexual allegations against adults:
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All those who were calling for a stricter lock-down last week and are now horrified the police is patrolling parks & moving people on: you befuddle me, you contradictory beasts
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As unsurprising as it is sad - Brittany Higgins is the public face of the intolerable toll so many survivors suffer when they speak out:
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As a lisping woman in media, I welcome the ABC appointment of Ita, our queen
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This from St Vincent de Paul this morning: "Don't use us in the religious freedom debate". They have no requirement for their staff to be Catholic
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I am a person who is often in Kmart, and I care about the Paris Agreement
Backbencher Barnaby Joyce “people in kmart...don’t care about the Paris Agreement”
@politicsabc
at a hastily called media conference at federal parliament
#auspol
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The women who spoke to us for this story are incredibly brave, and we thank them
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Why do we give "great men" like Bob Ellis artistic license to act on grubby impulses? My column this week:
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Let’s pause to reflect that we have now become so scandal-inured, or callous, that a credible allegation of a serious and violent crime can be made against the world’s most powerful man, and it is virtually ignored. My Sunday bit:
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Amazing how much compassion the Catholic church hierarchy has .... for cells
This out of left field - "Archbishop Fisher said he had written to the Prime Minister and urged him to pursue alternate vaccines which 'do not use foetal cells in their development'".
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Sydney got its Queen Victoria statue as a gift from the Irish, because she was unwanted, and a bombing risk, over there. The statue's presence in Dublin was deemed "repugnant to national feeling"
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Tweeting this as a reminder of what female journalists get when they write about rape:
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A victory against the elitists courtesy of Alan Jones, who has a butler
Breaking: Gladys Berejiklian has instructed the Sydney Opera House to allow its sails to be lit up with colours, numbers and a trophy to promote next Saturday’s Everest horse race, against the wishes of the Opera House boss' wishes
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One of our wonderful subscribers has written to remind me that this moment has extra poignancy because Commissioner Fitzsimmons lost his own firefighting dad in a fire in 2000
This is the heart-breaking moment when the RFS Commissioner knelt in front of the toddler son of volunteer firefighter Geoffrey Keaton and pinned a medal to his chest - his dad's posthumous Commendation for Bravery and Service |
@JacquelineMaley
#NSWFires
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I spoke to Julia Gillard for her first big post-politics interview. The things people most wanted me to ask her: how is she so resilient, what’s Rhianna like and how is Tim? All is revealed here
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I *really* hate Twitter fights, but I would like to say that the body of work
@bairdjulia
has amassed speaks for itself, and if we have truly come to a place where that can potentially be forgotten because some ppl did not like a column, then that's not a good place
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There is zero evidence sex selection happens and even less it will happen under decriminalisation. This is 100 per cent fake news
Just to be clear re my debate with
@BradHazzardMP
: we both agree on the following - abortion, decriminalised abortion, late term medical/heath issue abortion, but disagree on sex selection abortion. Catholic Archbishop fighting for changes to abortion laws
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Today I am tweeting happy stories. Here is one about an old folks' home in Holland where uni students can live cheaply in exchange for 30 hours a month of being a "good neighbour". Together they have inter-generational parties in the common room:
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Elizabeth Evatt AC, the first Chief Justice of the Family Court and a legal legend, labels Hanson's comments "not true" and says it "appalling" Hanson has started the family law inquiry with "ready-made opinions".
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I am less attached the name "Fairfax" than I am to the names of the noble mastheads we publish - mastheads which have been a pillar of public life in this country for 150-odd years. Hopefully our new overlords will value them too.
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Worth noting that Maurice Newman is one of the men behind conservative activist group Advance Australia, lobbying hard for Abbott in Warringah, but Abbott says they're not connected to his campaign. That's not declared here, nor is the fact that Newman worked for Abbott when PM
The intense, sustained attack on
@TonyAbbottMHR
in Warringah is probably unprecedented and has done serious damage to his re-election prospects, writes Maurice Newman
#auspol
#ausvotes
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"A woman brought in to fix up a mess left by a man was ultimately held to a higher standard. Other than fail the pub test, it's not exactly clear what she did wrong."
@PhillipCoorey
on point as ever:
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"Increasingly it feels the government, so keen to invoke its 'quiet Australians', is using the phrase as a gag on debate". My Sunday bit, with bonus Barnaby content:
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There has been cricket-bat bothering and tennis racquet-wrangling. Various trucks and tractors have been mounted.
Not wanting to mention the war, the PM seems to have retreated to a election campaign manshed, devoid of women's policy. My Sunday bit:
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Might maybe have been a bit more complex than that?
BOLT: In the three years Malcolm Turnbull was prime minister, not once did he come on my show. This, to me, pointed to the weakness that finally brought him down.
MORE:
#theboltreport
@SkyNewsAust
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👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
“This poor woman, this poor woman who did nothing wrong, who didn't even complain.” David Marr urges people to read Ashleigh Raper’s statement accusing Luke Foley of sexual harassment, which he describes as “a beautiful moving document”
#TheDrum
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Remember the persecution of white South African farmers? White nationalist ideas have not been sneaked into mainstream debate. They came in through the front door:
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Fancy that. "Stimulus spending on new green energy projects creates twice as many jobs per dollar than investments in fossil fuel projects".
From
@npomalley
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This is a vindication of victims. There was only one boy alive to testify, and he was so credible he was believed over a man of great, great power.
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This is straight-up amazing - a first person piece by Rodger Muller, who went undercover for *three years* as a gun enthusiast, tricking even his own family, to get this story. He looks the part, down to the Australia lapel pin:
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Jared Kushner always looks to me like a haunted child from a Victorian Gothic novel
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May need to start socially distancing myself from white carbohydrates
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Sook? This guy once complained to my eds about a piece I wrote, wanted retraction & apology...back when he had his own Fairfax column
This article is amazing for its self-indulgent drivel. Yassmin AM not the most hated Muslim in Australia but certainly the biggest sook.
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“All the Australian law students at Oxford called him 'Dirty Dyson', that seemed to be the moniker he had widely” : Dyson at Oxford, new from me and
@Kate_McClymont
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Things are grim but I offer comic relief in the form of Melanie’s “smile”
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One thing that strikes me about this Eden-Monaro ding-dong is how *emotional* all these blokes get:
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Completely reject this. Happy to tender my audio files and shorthand notes. Lazy narrative to blame media.
The free speech advocate
@RossCameron4
offended
@JacquelineMaley
so she selectively highlights statements out of context.
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Gillard is not on the speaker list but she’s been asked to come to the stage. There is so much love for her among these people
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Tinkler once insulted a former SMH journo by saying he wasn’t going to take shit from someone who earned a bullshit $100k a year, an insult which vastly overestimated said journo’s salary. We found it amusing that was the most piddling figure he could summon. And also sad, for us
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Upper House MLC Lou Amato, opponent of abortion decriminalisation, just now, on the conscientious objection amendment: "Why should anyone be forced to do something they don’t want to do?"
People with uteruses: Ummmm, yes...that's what...oh never mind
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This extraordinary story is flying almost under the radar - the government is actually considering using taxpayer $ to insure new coal projects against carbon risk. If anyone tried to do this in private sector, they would be scoffed out of the boardroom :
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This is the cover of my debut novel, The Truth About Her, designed by the clever creatives
@HarperCollinsAU
, with lovely testimonials from
@annabelcrabb
and
@bairdjulia
It is out April 7. If you want to pre-order a copy, well, that would be nice!!!!
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Tony Abbott’s alma mater. Not only has middle Australia moved but also the upper upper middle
This is the moment a gay student at one of Sydney’s most elite Catholic schools - that boasts former prime minister Tony Abbott and Barnaby Joyce among its alumni - stood up in a packed assembly hall of more than 1,500 students and came out
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It's very exciting to be nominated along with Australia's journalism queen
@Kate_McClymont
for our stories on Dyson Heydon
Immensely proud of my
@smh
and
@theage
colleagues also nominated for their work. And bummed we don't get to have a proper party
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