Natasha Mitchell (she/her)
@natashamitchell
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Host, BIG IDEAS. Host/founder, Science Friction (2017-23) & All in the Mind (2002-12).Host, Life Matters(2012-16) @RadioNational Ex @WFSJ VP, @KSJatMIT. Punk.
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Joined February 2009
Find me Instagram: @natashamitchell_journalist Threads: @natashamitchell_journalist Bluesky: @natashamitchell.bsky.social Mastadon (but don't really use) @mstdn.social/natashamitchell Facebook NatashaMitchellJournalist So miss the >21k community here, but X ain't Twitter.
On Threads. From Muks to Zuk, corporate overlords whichever way you look at it @natashamitchell_journalist
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Gaza's Children Of War,8PM AEST Tonight on Foreign Correspondent @abcnews #Gaza
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There are a million children living in Gaza through the war between Israel and Hamas. Foreign Correspondent follows one young family trying to survive.
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"I was living my childhood. Now, there's no childhood left. Where is childhood?" - Siraj, age 10, who wants to be a neurosurgeon, but lived amidst rubble. Voice wise beyond his years. Vital @ForeignOfficial by Gazan journalists, reporter @steph_march, producer @NSelvaratnam
Gaza’s Children of War: This is our next episode of Foreign Correspondent next Tuesday September 23 8PM AEST on @abcnews and ABC IView and YouTube . It’s harrowing but please watch. #Gaza
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WE ASKED FOR WORKERS, WE GOT PEOPLE Hear this event I hosted on BIG IDEAS now https://t.co/TWsbuOWnI8 And read related recent excoriating reportage on the PALM visa scheme Pregnancies & discrimination https://t.co/0H2GznHbq4 Enslavement https://t.co/Tv4cWGfXCV
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A New South Wales inquiry into modern slavery has heard of migrant workers living in overcrowded and "unliveable" accommodation and being too afraid of deportation to seek medical care after suffer...
Big Ideas? GREAT IDEAS! Tonight on @RadioNational at 8pm an insightful event: "We Asked for Workers and Got People: Inside the Temporary Visa Scheme That Puts Food on Your Plate." Thanks @natashamitchell, @MattWithers_ , @kayathiea
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#Migration #BigIdeas #HumanStories
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And look what just happened in France. Big. We talk about this too. #fastfashion "French Senate backs law to regulate ultra fast fashion giants Shein and Temu" https://t.co/nUvVYzFtcL
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We're addicted to it, especially Australians it turns out! But fast farshun, sweetie darling, is seriously f**ed up for the planet & humanity. 4 guests, including acclaimed fashion designer #KitWillow, join me from the frontier of change On BIG IDEAS https://t.co/Nzx9XwDSBm
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Where do you look for the secret, untold, lost, hidden histories? Can we are to truly understand ourselves without them? Joining me at @MelbWritersFest Santilla Chingaipe Sita Sargeant Steve Vizard THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY Hear now on BIG IDEAS https://t.co/mFOR3D7PEd
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When Santilla Chingaipe stumbled on the names of enslaved Africans who arrived on the First Fleet in 1788 she couldn't look away. For Steve Vizard, an argument with his adult kids lead him to the...
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Listen to BIG IDEAS on ABC @RadioNational, the ABC Listen app, the link above, or wherever you get podcasts (except Spotify atm).
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We're talking men, boys, women, the manocracy, the m_a_n_osphere, aggression in the workplace, "DEI" efforts, Tr*mp, M*sk, Australia, USA, democracy, authoritarianism, social media, free speech, online t*rror, and more...we ranged far & wide!
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Mark Z*ckerberg claims corporations are being culturally neutered - are they? Joining me journo Catherine Fox (author, Stop Fixing Women, The Boss Bias) & lawyer @JoshBBornstein (author, Working for the Brand: How Corporations are Destroying Free Speech) https://t.co/8wdeOPC0iu
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Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has said “a lot of the corporate world has become culturally neutered” and that it needs more “masculine energy”? Has it and does it? At Meta, he recently shut down initiatives...
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Has the world lost the plot? For a BIG sense-making conversation on BIG IDEAS about a world in chaos, join me with John Lyons @TheLyonsDen Greg Sheridan @TheAustralian
@EmmaShortis @TheAusInstitute @joshgnosis @GuardianAus At @SorrentoWritFes Listen https://t.co/hRz7HGLVJi
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Are we living through a key turning point in world history? How do we make sense of this present moment, and what's on the horizon?Trump's trade wars, long-held alliances dismantled, the deadly...
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Has the world lost the plot? For a BIG sense-making conversation on BIG IDEAS about a world in chaos, join me with John Lyons @TheLyonsDen Greg Sheridan @TheAustralian
@EmmaShortis @TheAusInstitute @joshgnosis @GuardianAus At @SorrentoWritFes Listen https://t.co/hRz7HGLVJi
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Are we living through a key turning point in world history? How do we make sense of this present moment, and what's on the horizon?Trump's trade wars, long-held alliances dismantled, the deadly...
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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
Happy Warrior Entertainment is so proud to have produced this incredible project. Now, more than ever, we need the wisdom of our intellects, the patriotism of our citizens, and the passion and talents of those who still believe in the American experiment. I am deeply grateful to
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A big loss to the global community of science journalists https://t.co/AMkvy3BtT7
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SciDev.Net former Africa editor passes away.
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After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology. Lately, I’ve focused on
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On ABC @RadioNational Big Ideas, I speak with @natashamitchell about the ongoing Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran—and why any negotiations with the Islamic Republic regime must centre human rights and the voices of the Iranian people. I spoke about the lived realities of
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Absolute pleasure to join @natashamitchell ABC @RadioNational Big Ideas radio show with @FarkhondaAkbar @JacquiTrue and Bella Aung, to talk about Iran and the Woman, Life, Freedom ongoing movement. I talked about the oppression of women and gender apartheid, and highlighted the
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Australia's housing crisis has NOT always been with us. What choices created it, what choices will fix it? Are politicians courageous enough? Joining me at @adelwritersweek @MaiyAzize @AlanKohler @purplepingers @AmyRemeikis BIG IDEAS & plenty of them https://t.co/7QHFGG6ywK
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Australia's housing crisis hasn't always been with us. So what choices created it, and what choices are now needed to fix it? Buying a house is now out of reach if you're on an average wage, and...
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Statement from Columbia University School of Journalism on press freedom https://t.co/9JCcz2MYOC
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How has the fossil fuel industry wielded influence over Oz governments & policy? What does it take to make ambitious change in the public interest, without vested interests getting in the way? 4 header panel I hosted at @adelwritersweek Hear BIG IDEAS https://t.co/jychJLyvX3
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How has the fossil fuel industry wielded influence over Australian governments and their policies? What does it take to make ambitious change in the public interest, without vested interests getting...
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RFK Jr has been stating that the "anti-measles protection" of natural infection is better than vaccination First - if he thinks measles is not bad for you, then why care how good or long lasting the immunity against it is?? Second - Measles is NOT good for you. Do not get it to
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