Melissa Mackay
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Journalist | Presenter | Found on the ABC News Channel, probably wearing a colourful pantsuit | 🎥📺📻 Thoughts/feelings/opinions my own.
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined March 2012
Joined @abcnews @_melissamackay to discuss 🇺🇸 ‘28 Point Plan’ on ending 🇷🇺’s illegal invasion of 🇺🇦. Proposals from ceding territory to amnesty for war criminals are deeply concerning 🇺🇦 faces more tough days ahead, & our support must not waver Full interview
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Christopher James McLoughney has been refused bail, after he was arrested last night. Police allegedly found a sawn-off shotgun and ammunition in the 37-year-old's car. https://t.co/kVqC1shEin
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Police have charged a man in connection with the violent death of a 39-year-old woman in a home near Cessnock.
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"I wasn't just an editor and a journalist, I was also a mum to three young children who were impacted by what happened." How local journalists carry their communities through grief when reporting from within @abcnews
https://t.co/IVkeZH2D6p
abc.net.au
When tragedy strikes in small communities, the news doesn't fade when the cameras leave. It lingers in the streets, in the schools, in the quiet corners of local shops.
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A 39-year-old woman is dead and police are searching for her 37-year-old male partner - who they warn may be armed with a firearm. A child was found wandering three or four hundred metres from the home searching for help. @abcnews
https://t.co/E54SR5AIPM
abc.net.au
Police have charged a man in connection with the violent death of a 39-year-old woman in a home near Cessnock.
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A national watchdog is needed to ensure state, territory and federal governments effectively implement policies and programs to stop violence against women and children, according to the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (DFSV) Commissioner. @abcnews
https://t.co/AFFDHgCM4C
abc.net.au
The Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission found systems meant to keep governments accountable are so fragmented they are leading to authorities passing the buck on responsibility.
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I'll be speaking to CLANT President Beth Wild on the @abcnews channel at 5.30pm AEST about this: "Data reveals a majority of the NT's rehabilitation programs are being cancelled more than 60 per cent of the time." https://t.co/0LEGv2siOR
abc.net.au
As the Northern Territory prison population continues to reach all-time highs, data reveals a majority of the NT's rehab program are being cancelled more often than they are being delivered.
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"Until recently, the separation of powers issues were understood and respected." NT's top judge tells government not to interfere with court independence, in leaked email @abcnews
https://t.co/hwCBDFYm1j
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A leaked email shows the Northern Territory's highest-ranking judge wrote to a government department asking it not to interfere with the Supreme Court's independence. A courts spokesperson has since...
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In August we reported on the story of 12 year old Huda, suffering extreme malnutrition. Her hair was falling out, and she didn't have enough energy to get out of bed. We're hearing reports that Huda died in recent days. Here's our story from August: https://t.co/eiB8flhyDg
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Hospitals in Gaza are having to divert resources to treating surging cases of malnutrition as starvation takes hold across the strip. Meanwhile, children who need treatment are waiting to be evacua...
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Australia's de facto online betting regulator accused of being too close to gambling industry - more on 4 corners tonight
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Four Corners has uncovered allegations of conflicts of interest and pro-industry bias at the country's part-time regulator responsible for Australia's biggest betting companies.
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Excellent work from my colleague @NabilAlNashar today.
I spent all day talking to people at the March for Australia in Sydney, including well-meaning regular Aussies who have legitimate concerns about immigration and white supremacists. Was the March for Australia purely about immigration policy regardless of race? Not everyone
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“We live … in the queue of death.” Gaza’s journalists are the eyes and ears of the world in the war ravaged strip, and many are angry at the global response to the killing of their colleagues - including five at the Nasser Hospital last Monday https://t.co/WnuleTVBt5
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“Listening to each other is crucial, now, more than ever.” Farewell to @Dan_Bourchier after almost a decade at Aunty. So many of us have benefited from having him on our screens and in the hallways of the ABC. He is as wise as he is generous. Thank you, friend.💙
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Some personal news: I’m thrilled to be taking on this new role of China Correspondent and returning @abcnews to Beijing. https://t.co/k5aCDJ5iUn
abc.net.au
The ABC will again base a correspondent in China with Allyson Horn to take up the posting in Beijing in coming weeks.
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"I still remember when I declared my exile... I burst into tears knowing that I might not be able to go back home again." @tedhuichifung — who is wanted by authorities in Hong Kong — has been granted asylum in Australia. I spoke to him on @abcnews. https://t.co/nkGav619lP
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It comes more than four years after he left Hong Kong, where he faces criminal charges over his involvement in the 2019 pro-democracy protests.
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"The war in Ukraine will continue and Vladimir Putin has outmaneuvered yet another US president." ABC Americas Editor @TheLyonsDen - with his analysis of the historic meeting between the Russian and US presidents. https://t.co/4vLIzA1u7L
abc.net.au
The realities arising from the much-heralded meeting in Alaska between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are that the war in Ukraine will continue, and yet another US president has been outmanoeuvred.
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Sorry, I’m not free tonight. I have to watch a sports podcast to learn more about Taylor Swift’s new album.
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'Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice' On Tuesday, hundreds gathered for Anas Al-Sharif's funeral through the streets of Gaza. The attack wiped out the entire Al Jazeera reporting team left in Gaza City. https://t.co/V3qbMscIYR
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Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif predicted his own death, believing he'd been targeted by an IDF smear campaign as a precursor for his assassination. On Monday his premonition came true, when he...
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"Inside the aid depot, the booms of shelling could be heard in the distance. Over the next fence line were the ruins of what was once the city of Rafah — an area totally controlled by the IDF, which had razed it to the ground." @MattDoran91 for @abcnews
https://t.co/tdHocTrwRO
abc.net.au
The ABC crosses into the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom border, an opportunity to gain access to a site Israel is using to prosecute its case it is trying to feed the population of Gaza — an argument...
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Hamas releases video of gaunt and frail Israeli hostage appearing to dig his own grave, as families of the captives appeal once more to the Netanyahu Government to strike a deal to end the war in Gaza. 📺
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