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Miles P Herbert

@milespherbert.bsky.social

Listening to things over at Guardian Australia

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@lenoret.bsky.social / @miketicher.bsky.social and @bridie.bsky.social convinced me to jump on mic for this one.

If you are going to do something for the first time, why not do it in front of a live audience?

17.10.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Newsroom edition: Albanese prepares to meet Trump, SXSW Live - podcast Live from the South by Southwest festival in Sydney, Bridie Jabour talks to the editor, Lenore Taylor, the head of newsroom, Mike Ticher, and senior audio producer Miles Herbert about how Anthony Alba...

A fun and important conversation about our relationship with the US ahead of Albanese sitting down with Trump.

17.10.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Watching from Australia while Donald Trump targets my home of Chicago with armed troops prompts deep questions | Miles Herbert I never again want to have to look back and wonder, could I have done more?

Watching from Australia while Donald Trump targets my home of Chicago with armed troops prompts deep questions, by @milespherbert.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

14.10.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Watching from Australia while Donald Trump targets my home of Chicago with armed troops prompts deep questions | Miles Herbert I never again want to have to look back and wonder, could I have done more?

Don’t look back and wonder.

13.10.2025 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: β€˜I didn’t want them to take her’ During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

A stain on all of us:

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No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...
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The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the β€˜most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever
01.09.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Targeting journalists is a war crime.
As colleagues, we remember them.
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β€˜If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. This is the message he had prepared for his family, and his call for the world not to forget Gaza
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MEAA condemns targeted attacks on Gaza journalists as a war crime as toll nears 200 deaths

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Newsroom edition: the politics of the Sydney Harbour Bridge protest - podcast Bridie Jabour talks to the editor, Lenore Taylor, and the head of newsroom, Mike Ticher, about the political fallout from the Harbour Bridge protest
08.08.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Newsroom edition: when will Australia recognise Palestine? - podcast Reged Ahmad talks to deputy editor Patrick Keneally and the head of newsroom, Mike Ticher, about the pressure pushing Australia towards Palestinian recognition
31.07.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Every day

26.07.2025 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I can’t believe this is finally out. Hulk Hogan Sings Nick Drake! Sounds so good! #hulkhogan #nickdrake TikTok video by Jason Gore

It is a pink moon, brother: www.tiktok.com/@mrjasongore...

24.07.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eleven minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became β€˜death traps’ – a visual story Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk
22.07.2025 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Newsroom edition: why is Jim Chalmers listening to Ezra Klein? - podcast Nour Haydar asks Lenore Taylor and Mike Ticher if the Abundance agenda is right for Australia

Why are so many progressive MPs echoing one of the Lefts favourite podcasters? @lenoret.bsky.social , @miketicher.bsky.social , and @nourhaydar.bsky.social dig into the Abundance agenda and lay it all out:

17.07.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So sorry to hear. Hope you got out of the forest in one piece, on another note!

10.07.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

3rd rent rise in as many years... I have come to dread the day in early July when I get the email. Sad thing is...this time around my first thought was "it could have been worse".

Things are just no longer viable for people... and by 'things' I mean the human right to be housed.

10.07.2025 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Statement from Arsenal Supporters Against Sexual Violence.

Statement from Arsenal Supporters Against Sexual Violence.

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Statement from Arsenal Supporters Against Sexual Violence.

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People will ask - why did you not say anything about this? You knew - everybody knew! And the reason is the same as it has always been: because to have said anything would have not just broken the law, but prejudiced proceedings and harmed all the individuals involved in the case.

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A little jog around sacred and unceded land:

29.06.2025 02:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it’s really easy actually. when i write about this stuff for my newspaper column, i try to capture the nuances and i am using whatever authority i have as a person in the business to criticize my peers for not doing the same

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Paradise will only come when all left of center writers cede all major platforms to conservatives.

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American Carnage

11.06.2025 11:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Five years since Black Lives Matter – has anything changed in Australia? - podcast Indigenous Affairs reporters Sarah Collard and Ella Archibald-Binge join Nour Haydar to discuss the recurring calls for justice
05.06.2025 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A glimpse of hope, then another Aboriginal death in custody: β€˜grief-stricken’ campaigners mourn lack of progress In 2020 tens of thousands of people defied Covid restrictions to march in support of the families of Indigenous Australians who have died in custody, as part of the global Black Lives Matter movement....
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The Coalition is back together, what now? - podcast Nour Haydar speaks with Dan Jervis-Bardy about the Coalition’s short-lived breakup

A quick one with @danjb.bsky.social and @nourhaydar.bsky.social on a reunion that could leave us with more questions than answers:

28.05.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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No one committed to Paris goals can seriously argue Woodside’s LNG project should operate until 2070 Forty-year extension of North West Shelf gas project granted by environment minister Murray Watt will result in huge greenhouse gas emissions, putting the already degraded Indigenous rock art at risk

An analysis

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

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