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Guardian Australia's media correspondent. Weekly Beast out Fridays. DM or amanda.meade @theguardian .com meadea @masthead .social amandameade @proton .me

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Tracy Grimshaw: You have believed Christian Porter and Eric Abetz. "The pattern here is women are always the liars"
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On Monday Four Corners investigates how and why Brittany Higgins’ story was kept quiet for almost two years with @SeanNic reporting
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And the great @murpharoo wins the Walkley!
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Sarah Hanson-Young: “Today I introduced a Greens bill to establish a Royal Commission into the Murdoch media empire and the state of media diversity in Australia."
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@TamePunk Oh the irony: Janet Albrechtsen says “Tame is dividing the country” and she defends Pauline Hanson who has divided the country.
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Top marks for Laura Tingle @latingle
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Malcolm Turnbull says @guardian is one of the world's great newspapers. @GuardianAus is a "left-ish newspaper" and is unlikely to urge a vote for a conservative party but they "don’t make stuff up, they check facts and they’re a professional outfit".
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Australia Day: Rosie Batty slams Australia Day award winner Bettina Arndt. “Former Australian of the Year Rosie Batty has also criticised the award and claims it throws the entire Australia Day and honours awards system into question.”
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ABC chief David Anderson is up at senate estimates: He defends Louise Milligan and says the ABC’s role is to "hold publicly elected people and government generally, state or federal, to account, without fear or favour, regardless of which political party is in power".
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From the family of Ash Good: "Overnight we have been shocked by some media publications reproducing photographs of Ashlee, her partner and our baby girl without our consent. It has caused extreme distress amongst Ashlee’s loved ones and we request that the photos be taken down."
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Shocked that @smh chose to run an in-house announcement about Stefanovic on p1 instead of the bushfires, relegated to a pointer to p7
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The government is monitoring the 'Likes' ABC staff make on Twitter. Senator James Patterson says Neighbour liked a tweet from @TheShovel about Porter.
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Peta Credlin has made an incredibly detailed and lengthy apology to the South Sudanese community. It's the biggest backdowns I've ever seen.
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The ABC won’t confirm it is planning part 2 of Inside the Canberra Bubble for Four Corners, but government sources say the broadcaster has asked for interviews ahead of another program to air as early as Monday. Unusually, Four Corners has not yet announced what's on.
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I too remember @Milliganreports as a young, star reporter on @australian , who was admired across the paper. Along with my former colleagues @GMegalogenis @Melbchief @PatsKarvelas I abhor the vile attack on her.
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Chris Uhlmann declares his own debate a success #60minutes
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Thorpie @IanThorpe says we need to see this religious discrimination bill disappear. @abcnews
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The all-female "A Team" in Canberra via @crikey_news : "Samantha Maiden ; Katharine Murphy and Amy Remeikis @GuardianAus ; Ten’s Tegan George; Karen Middleton from The Saturday Paper; Michelle Grattan, The Conversation; and Laura Tingle, Patricia Karvelas and Shalailah Medhora."
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Kevin Rudd petition on Murdoch makes news on ⁦ @CNN
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Well done @StephenLongAus . The way they grabbed the mike from you at a press conference was appalling @4corners @Qantas
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The ABC has confirmed @fauziah_ibrahim is off air pending an investigation into her social media activity.
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3 years
The @australian editorial gets down very low today: "Many senior people at The Australian know well the work, the habits and the hubris of Sally Neighbour and Louise Milligan."
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Good on you @mjrowland68 for calling out @GregHuntMP for a party political logo attached to a government announcement about vaccines
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2 years
Predictably
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3 years
Guardian Australia editor Lenore Taylor was asked by senators why climate change is so contentious in this country. She says it's because "climate science is portrayed as a matter of debate when it's not, it's a matter of science".
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An indexation freeze meant the ABC had to get rid of 229 people and axe the 7.45am news bulletin but Coalition senators are arguing at #estimates that the ABC's funding has gone up. What a waste of time.
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Former @smh editor @PeterFray tells @RNBreakfast the failure over reporting of @RebelWilson lies with the editor
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4 years
This guy manages to make even more of a fool of himself every day
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Adam Creighton
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Shameful what's occurring in Victoria. Effective dictatorship declared. Devastating, destructive power of the state on full display. Respect for the individual clearly irrelevant. What's the point in being alive if you can't live?
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Such wisdom in @australian : “Australia should consider a ­second national broadcaster to present an alternative outlook to the ABC, Cardinal George Pell believes.”
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Former Age editor Andrew Jaspan says the two distinct voices of @theage and @smh under Fairfax Media have been reduced to a single voice controlled by an executive editor in Sydney; and is further diminished by "sitting within the walls of Channel 9". #mediadiversityinquiry
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News Corp boss Michael Miller: Scott Morrison was wrong today to claim an investigation is under way into a complaint accusing an employee of harassment against a woman in a female toilet. No complaint has been received and News Corp and Sky News are not dealing with a complaint.
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ABC News director Gaven Morris has announced his resignation. Story to come.
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On the record quote from an ABC spokeswoman: “The only costs that the ABC will be paying are the mediation costs. “
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The Alan Jones announcement of a new program delivered on a digital platform has hit its first hurdle. The press conference is almost inaudible. Lots of complaints on Facebook.
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2 years
Tony Armstrong in purple suit at the Logies tonight #Logies2022 @Tonaaayy_
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3 years
There are so many choice lines in @australian 's response to @4corners but I'll just start here. "... the ABC chooses to run another episode in its decades-long, institutional and personal crusade against News Corp"
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@Mish_in_London @RachaelHasIdeas Nah. My little man in his Elsa dress
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3 years
The @AusPressCouncil is not independent, has "proved to be ineffectual", and is largely funded by News Corp, Dr Denis Muller tells the media diversity inquiry.
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2 years
Nine: @oz_f has been appointed culture news editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, driving arts, books, television, film, music, celebrity and pop culture.
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4 years
ABC: The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty - available to binge on ABC iview or watch on Sunday 20 September at 7:40pm on ABC.
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Fran Kelly will host a new ABC TV Friday night chat show, Frankly. She'll talk to actors musicians in front of a live audience with a house rock band.
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Is it too much to ask paparazzi to leave the family of Jock Zonfrillo alone when they return home?
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4 years
@CUhlmann @Riley7News @9NewsAUS @7NewsAustralia Nine is up 8% while the ABC is up 30%
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3 years
Anthony Klan told media diversity inquiry that the Australian changed over the 15 years he worked there and towards 2019 the "level of unethical behaviour was extremely high".
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Extraordinary
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Opposition Indigenous Australians spokesperson Jacinta Nampijinpa Price tells reporter she believes colonisation does not impact on Indigenous Australians today. Read more:
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2 years
Top Australian news sites according to @Similarweb
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Suddenly the minister for the ABC "scrambled" to undo the ABC cuts just before the election was called, @KerryOBrien says, asking how we can trust a Coalition government when Howard, Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison have all made cuts.
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Packed to overflowing at @FriendsoftheABC rally in Sydney. #HandsOffOurABC
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1 year
We braved the heat to hear ⁦ @AlboMP ⁩ and ⁦ @LindaBurneyMP ⁩ talk about the Voice in Petersham Park. Great turn out.
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4 years
Kevin Rudd might just get his half a million signatures. It's 34,000 short with 1.5 days.
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Incredible blunder by Sky News and Sharri
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Sky News Sharri Markson’s exclusive vision of the Baltimore bridge collapse revealed to be fake news. #MediaBites #MediaWatch
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Malcolm Turnbull says the Murdoch media is by far the most powerful, and dangerous force, in Australian politics today, far more powerful than any political party. #mediadiversityinquiry
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Patricia Karvelas to take over from Fran Kelly on @RNBreakfast
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Miranda Devine: “Labor will be an appalling government.” “Scott Morrison was unfairly demonised.” @SkyNewsAust
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3 years
Oh dear what a mistake to make
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The minister for communications admits he is a member of the IPA which advocates for ABC to be privatised
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Keating doesn’t like the “ning nongs of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age” @PressClubAust #keating
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Senator asks @acmadotgov "what do you actually do?" Journalists silently applaud.
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This is quite the moment. The fury on Paul Kelly's face.
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Malcolm Turnbull slams The Australian's Paul Kelly over News Corp's position on climate change.
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Dan Andrews: "Last time I was in that shed was when I carried my father's coffin out of it."
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One of the weirdest lines in the Angela Shanahan piece is that breastfeeding is indicative of being a “leftie”.
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Guardian Australia is tiny compared to News Corp and Nine and cannot be seen as a "counter balance" to Murdoch, the media diversity inquiry hears.
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Behrouz Boochani, voice of Manus Island refugees, is free in New Zealand
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