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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 16d

Voices Under Fire: Stories from Gaza

Join me at this event on 6 November to bear witness to the lives of Gazans experiencing genocide. For one night, we'll come together as a community to read the poetry and first-hand accounts of Palestinians who have had to flee their homeland, those who have…

Voices Under Fire: Stories from Gaza

Join me at this event on 6 November to bear witness to the lives of Gazans experiencing genocide. For one night, we'll come together as a community to read the poetry and first-hand accounts of Palestinians who have had to flee their homeland, those who have been martyred, and those who are still surviving the daily nightmare. All ticket sales will go to families currently in Gaza to help them buy food, medicine and other necessities.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · Aug 29

Fourth item in @meadea.bsky.social 's Weekly Beast column today which kinda shows how much China has fallen from the headlines!

www.theguardian.com/media/commen...

Family of Erin Patterson’s victims say mushroom trial media frenzy fed off their suffering | The Weekly Beast

Heather and Ian Wilkinson’s daughter says it is ‘revolting to experience our family’s tragedy being turned into entertainment’. Plus: Andrew Greene’s second chance

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · Aug 29

Oh I missed this yesterday - ABC will finally have a China correspondent again, 5 years after Bill Birtles was forced out. Allyson Horn is the new Beijing corro.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

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Economic Media Centre - Australia. @economicmc.bsky.social · Aug 25

Also we've got an online panel this Thursday on what the media landscape will look like leading up to the SA state election next year.

Speakers are Pas Forgione (APNSA), Rebecca Tooher (@sacoss.bsky.social) and journo @waltermarsh.bsky.social

Thu 28 Aug, 12-1pm SA time via Zoom, DM for the link

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Economic Media Centre - Australia. @economicmc.bsky.social · Aug 22

Calling change-makers in Adelaide: We're running free media spokesperson training in Sept/Oct! Interested? Apply before Tue 26 Aug: www.tfaforms.com/4896630

ECONOMIC MEDIA CENTRE TRAININGEXPRESSION OF INTEREST

www.tfaforms.com

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · Aug 20

Adelaide folks, we're running free media spokesperson training in Sept/Oct! Interested? Apply before Tue 26 Aug: www.tfaforms.com/4896630

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · Aug 15

All Bendigo Writers Fest needed to do was assure the visiting authors that nothing in their code of conduct would prevent attendees from using the g-word in relation to Gaza. If they had then none of this would be an issue. Why haven’t they? Because censorship is the point.

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · Aug 14

Exclusive | Speakers are boycotting the Bendigo Writers Festival after receiving a code of conduct from event organisers that required “compliance” with a controversial definition of antisemitism.

Writers boycott Bendigo Writers Festival for demanding 'compliance' with controversial antisemitism rule

Several notable speakers have already bowed out, with more set to follow, Crikey understands.

www.crikey.com.au

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · Aug 14

I know many in the media and culture industries have been anxious watching the silencing and intimidation of workers who've spoken out for Palestine. I hope this video reassures you that you're supported by your comrades across the industry. Fight every way you can, hold strong together.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · Aug 14

In the time it took to edit this video, Israel killed 6 more Palestinian journalists from the Al Jazeera team. These are targeted attacks to stop the truth getting out, to kill all witnesses.

The music here is 'Witness', composed by Connor D’Netto and performed by Jayson Gillham.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · Aug 14

Israel has killed 180 Palestinian journalists since Oct 2023. There are 120 of us in this video remembering our slain Palestinian colleagues - it's staggering to see so many faces and realise more than this number have been killed.
#StopKillingJournalists #SanctionIsraelNow
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Stop Killing Journalists

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Scott Mitchell @scottmitchell.bsky.social · Aug 14

Over 100 journalists from every outlet you can think of are in this video.

Journalists care about the truth and about our brave colleagues in Gaza.

It's the bosses who have let us all down.

Join your union.

MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · Aug 14

Targeting journalists is a war crime.
As colleagues, we remember them.
meaa.io/45A4vZ5

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · Aug 14

In the time it took to edit this video, Israel killed 6 more Palestinian journalists from the Al Jazeera team. Most of these are targeted killings to stop the truth getting out.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · Aug 14

Israel has killed 180 Palestinian journalists since Oct 2023. There are 120 of us in this video remembering our slain Palestinian colleagues - it's staggering to see so many faces and realise that more than this number of media workers have been killed.
#StopKillingJournalists #SanctionIsraelNow

MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · Aug 14

Targeting journalists is a war crime.
As colleagues, we remember them.
meaa.io/45A4vZ5

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Michael Slezak @mikeyslezak.bsky.social · Aug 14

One of the many devastating things about making this video was that we had to update it about three times during the making to account for further killings of journalists, including (you'll see at the end) a special mention of the 6 Al Jazeera journalists targeted by Israel. Please watch to the end.

MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · Aug 14

Targeting journalists is a war crime.
As colleagues, we remember them.
meaa.io/45A4vZ5

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · Aug 10

amymcquire.substack.com/p/complicity...

‘Complicity’ is an insufficient word: the violence of western media

The story of Palestinian author Mona Zahed and the violence of western media.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 10

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza

Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Aug 10

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · Aug 5

🚨 A new report into unlawful Centrelink payment cancellations is out!

The Ombudsman has raised concerns about whether payment suspensions happen "fairly and reasonably" with @caitkelly.bsky.social

Tune in to ABC RN to hear from @squigglyrick.bsky.social
apcentre.substack.com/p/damning-om...

Damning Ombudsman report shows government must stop Centrelink payment suspensions

Welfare recipients and community sector organisations are calling for an urgent intervention by government to stop Centrelink payment suspensions, which cause severe financial hardship and turmoil in ...

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · Jul 17

Unwelcome? This is literally your policies working as designed.

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · Jul 17

Cool, if you expect them to rise then we expect unemployment payments to rise as compensation for being fodder for your "economy"

"Chalmers says unemployment figures ‘unwelcome but unsurprising’, expects numbers to rise"

#NobodyDeservesPoverty
#RaiseTheRate

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

24m ago
07.40 AEST
Chalmers says unemployment figures ‘unwelcome but unsurprising’, expects numbers to rise
The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, just spoke to RN Breakfast from the G20 summit in South Africa about yesterday’s surprising jobs data, which showed Australia’s unemployment rate rising to 4.3% in June. Chalmers said:

This is unwelcome, but it’s also unsurprising. We’ve been saying for some time, including in our own budget forecast, that we expect a modest tick up in the unemployment rate. But it remains the case that over the last three years, the labour market in Australia has been a real source of strength at an uncertain time in the world.

And here at the G20, there are only two economies, including ours, where last year we saw continued growth, inflation with a two in front of it, and unemployment in the low fours.

Chalmers said he did not expect unemployment to hit the 5% mark, with a current forecast “somewhere around the middle fours”.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · Jul 11

So we've got an antisemitism report that starts with references to instances of antisemitism that didn't actually happen. And that fails to mention dozens of cases across Oz where people were fired/cancelled/lost work for criticising Israeli war crimes or wearing keffiyeh or simply being Arab.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · Jul 11

Anyway back to the Segal report on antisemitism. The foreword mentions hate-filled chants outside the Sydney Opera House - wasn't this disproven? After initial investigations by Antoinette Lattouf and Cam Wilson at @crikey.com.au? And then the ABC unfairly dismissed Lattouf later that same month?

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · Jul 11

And POC diasporas are always held collectively responsible for the actions of their presumed "homeland" even if they have no actual connection to it. This is racist, yes - but it's the reality for all of us. And idk, I think it's also an opportunity for solidarity and learning.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · Jul 11

As if there's a single standard and not just a patchwork of racist double standards in what we expect of nations. As if Israel isn't treated far more sympathetically than other genocidal apartheid states.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · Jul 11

The thing that stands out to me most in the widely discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism is that it's considered antisemitic to apply "double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behaviour not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation". And "democratic" means ...?

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