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Amanda Meade
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Guardian Australia media correspondent
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Yes … er, no: The Australian backflips after signing on to Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon reporting rules
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Yes … er, no: The Australian backflips after signing on to Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon reporting rules | Weekly Beast
News Corp’s broadsheet was one of very few publications to agree to restrict reporting to authorised material before it changed its mind. Plus: a super blooper
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ABC NEWS has maintained its spot as Australia’s No 1 digital news provider in September for the tenth consecutive month. According to the latest Ipsos data,
@news.com.au is 2nd,
@nine.com.au is third,
@7NewsAustralia is 4th,
@australia.theguardian.com is 5th and
@SMH is 6th.
October 31, 2025 at 1:57 AM
News Corp books in advertisers in campaign for a ‘self-reliant’ Australia that ‘made things here’
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News Corp books in advertisers in campaign for a ‘self-reliant’ Australia that ‘made things here’ | Weekly Beast
Daily Telegraph editor says the campaign aligns with the values of its backers, which include RM Williams, Qantas and Bunnings. Plus: Stokes defiant on BRS
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October 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Lachlan Murdoch’s top adviser Siobhan McKenna resigns from News Corp
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Lachlan Murdoch’s top adviser Siobhan McKenna resigns from News Corp
Company’s Australian broadcast chief, who was involved in negotiations over Murdoch family’s succession plans, to depart media giant
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October 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Yes … er, no: The Australian backflips after signing on to Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon reporting rules
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Yes … er, no: The Australian backflips after signing on to Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon reporting rules | Weekly Beast
News Corp’s broadsheet was one of very few publications to agree to restrict reporting to authorised material before it changed its mind. Plus: a super blooper
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October 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Lattouf unlawful termination case has cost ABC at least $2.5m, Hugh Marks tells estimates
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Lattouf unlawful termination case has cost ABC at least $2.5m, Hugh Marks tells estimates
Public broadcaster failed to follow its own processes, boss says, and it was ‘not a good reflection on the organisation’
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October 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Sky News Australia gives neo-Nazi centre stage with uninterrupted press conference
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Sky News Australia gives neo-Nazi centre stage with uninterrupted press conference | Weekly Beast
News Corp channel puts to air statement from extremist just days after alleged attack on Indigenous protest site. Plus: 4BC’s typo to end all typos
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September 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
ABC should be fined up to $350k after Buttrose’s ‘pressure’ on staff to sack Lattouf, federal court hears
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ABC should be fined up to $350k after Buttrose’s ‘pressure’ on staff to sack Lattouf, federal court hears
One of Lattouf’s barristers, Philip Boncardo, tells the court the former ABC chair placed ‘significant pressure’ on Chris Oliver-Taylor
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September 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
The unlawful termination case brought by Antoinette Lattouf against the ABC returns to court this morning for a pecuniary hearing.

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September 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
An Australian institution: ABC’s The Science Show marks 50 years on-air with Robyn Williams
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An Australian institution: ABC’s The Science Show marks 50 years on-air with Robyn Williams
The legendary broadcaster is still doing what he began in 1975 – revealing science as ‘an exciting journey of discovery, and sometimes a funny one’
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September 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Reposted by Amanda Meade
Kind of astonishing how Pavlou went from being an undergraduate wanker hassling academics about China to "I will disembowel myself rather than have women friends." That took, what, seven years?
you can see the inverse reaction here, where mr pavlou has a bizarre meltdown because of a picture of some ladies lifting a man off the ground

the pic is just some people being silly and having fun, but the idea of the inversion of The Natural Order™️ is a metaphysical threat to some
August 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Bruce Lehrmann has become a ‘national joke’ and can’t afford barrister for defamation appeal, his lawyer says
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Bruce Lehrmann has become a ‘national joke’ and can’t afford barrister for defamation appeal, his lawyer says
Former Liberal staffer’s lawyer begins three-day appeal hearing by apologising to justices for her client’s failure to appoint an experienced barrister
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August 20, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Reposted by Amanda Meade
Mark Butler doesn't seem to understand that you don't grow out of being autistic.
August 20, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Antisemitism envoy denies involvement in major donation by husband’s company to rightwing group Advance
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Antisemitism envoy denies involvement in major donation by husband’s company to rightwing group Advance
Records show company co-directed by Jillian Segal’s husband donated $50,000 in 2024 to lobby group which campaigned against Albanese and pro-Palestine protests
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July 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Binge are doing their best to keep it a secret - nervous about some of the content? - but 2 more brilliant episodes of
@mitchmctaggart.bsky.social's 'The Back Side of Television' have gone up today.
July 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
As this week’s weather headlines prove, one term offers media the biggest bang for their buck: bomb cyclone
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As this week’s weather headlines prove, one term offers media the biggest bang for their buck: bomb cyclone | Weekly Beast
‘Very, very old’ meteorological term garners 8,500 mentions in a week. Plus: the ABC announces Toxic, a primetime series
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July 4, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Antoinette Lattouf v ABC: federal court to hand down judgment on unlawful termination legal battle
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Antoinette Lattouf v ABC: federal court to hand down judgment on unlawful termination legal battle
Highly charged 18-month dispute over casual radio presenter’s Gaza social media post to end on Wednesday
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June 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
News Corp bets big on AI tools but journalists voice concerns
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News Corp bets big on AI tools but journalists voice concerns | Weekly Beast
Company says in-house NewsGPT tool part of a look into how AI tech will ‘enhance our workplaces rather than replace jobs’. Plus: Seven West’s Origin dummy spit
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June 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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The first stories from our five-month investigation: Scouring coronial findings from 248 deaths, we found a staggering 57 Australians have killed themselves in the past two decades using hanging points in prisons that authorities knew about but failed to remove www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Astounding’ negligence revealed: governments turn blind eye to staggering prison death toll
Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds 57 inmates across Australia killed themselves using ligature points that authorities knew about but failed to remove
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June 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
ABC investigates defence correspondent for allegedly not disclosing trip paid for by German shipbuilder
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ABC investigates defence correspondent for allegedly not disclosing trip paid for by German shipbuilder
Andrew Greene, who has worked for the public broadcaster for more than 10 years, filed a story from Germany about business booming at naval shipyards
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June 17, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Justice Darryl Rangiah will deliver his judgment in the unlawful termination case brought by former radio presenter Antoinette Lattouf against the ABC in the federal court on 25 June at 10.15am.
June 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM