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Super delayed reply but you’re a gem! Thanks for sharing this and for your lovely words!

Just finished learning my #ABCs, and now I’m seeing what else is out there!

What’s next for me? I’m open to both short- and long- term #media and #communications roles, specialising in #digitalmedia, #currentaffairs and the #AsiaPacific. I’m also going to give freelancing a go.

Elderly women in Japan are keeping themselves employed as grandmas-for-hire In Japan, you can rent a grandmother to help cook for you and give you support. What do services like this mean for Japan’s aging population, especially for women?

Need some 'motherly warmth'? In Japan, you can hire a grandma for as little as $60 … And it’s both keeping older women employed and tackling Japan’s loneliness epidemic.

Latest by 🙋🏻‍♀️and Seena Katayama for my final week with ABC’s Asia Pacific newsroom

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The simple act of reading can be a crime in Malaysia. Here's why Malaysian authorities raided this bookstore on Wednesday to seize two books on the grounds of morality. But for the bookstore staff and publishers, this is just another day.

From bookstore raids and intimidation to book bans, here’s why the simple act of reading can be a crime in Malaysia.

Reporting by 🙋🏻‍♀️

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What Jonathan Haidt Thought When He Watched ‘Adolescence’ “The internet is just not a good place to let your child roam free 24/7.”

“The internet is just not a good place to let your child roam free 24/7.”

Jonathan Haidt, the author of “The Anxious Generation,” talks with Olga Khazan about the Netflix show “Adolescence”:

Graduates in 'debt vortex' as HECS loans front and centre in election New research shows a sharp rise in HECS debts, despite graduate earning power declining, as student loans become a potent election issue for the first time.

New research shows a sharp rise in HECS debts, despite graduate earning power declining, as student loans become a potent election issue for the first time.

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It was bring your parents to work day last night 💕💕

They say "you can't be what you can't see". Growing up, two friends from Melbourne found it hard to find themselves in the books they read.

Which is why they decided to open a bookstore to make culturally-diverse authors more accessible. 

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Q+A is returning for 2025 🎉🎉

At a critical time on the cusp of the federal election, the PM will sit down with host @PatsKarvelas to take questions from a live Melbourne studio audience – and viewers across Australia!

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You can argue that race is a social construct, but racism is not. To make an argument on the technicalities behind a person’s race, especially when a review found less than a year ago that systemic racism exists within the ABC, is deeply concerning and disgusting.

Government postpones big stick for big tech amid Trump tariff fears Plans to toughen online safety requirements for big tech platforms are on ice after the federal government's hand-picked expert recommended threatening Meta, Apple and Google with billions of dollars in fines.

Plans to toughen online safety requirements for big tech platforms are on ice after the federal government's hand-picked expert recommended threatening Meta, Apple and Google with billions of dollars in fines.

‘Just listen’: feisty exchanges as Antoinette Lattouf takes stand against ABC silk The journalist faces hostile questioning from former employer’s barrister as she sues for wrongful dismissal * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Ian Neil SC had begun calmly. “You understand, don’t you, that we appear for…

‘Just listen’: feisty exchanges as Antoinette Lattouf takes stand against ABC silk

Layoffs loom as Trump administration orders federal DEI workers on leave Employees of diversity, equity and inclusion programs are to be placed on administrative leave by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Agencies were told to make plans for layoffs.

President Donald Trump’s administration took aim at government DEI programs, ordering federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees to be placed on leave no later than Wednesday and for DEI offices to be closed down.

‘I Got a Pardon Baby!’ President Trump’s decision to grant clemency to nearly 1,600 insurrectionists is sending a clear message to right-wing extremists.

@alibreland.bsky.social: “This is one of the key ingredients to the perpetuation of political violence across society—a belief among those who might carry it out that they can do so, and that they’ll get away with it.”

Shankari Chandran, Robert Dessaix, Diana Reid and more: Australian books to look forward to in 2025 From enthralling debuts to playful premises and national reckonings, here is a whirlwind tour of what’s to come The Australian publishing calendar is packed with ambition this year: the post-pandemic torpor is finally shifting, and in its place is a…

Shankari Chandran, Robert Dessaix, Diana Reid and more: Australian books to look forward to in 2025

Donald Trump says the ceasefire deal is EPIC, but it is just a Band-Aid The model of a two-state solution is bruised and damaged but is the only viable way to prevent further and more intense violence in coming years, writes John Lyons.

In the broader sweep of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this is yet another Band-Aid on a badly bleeding patient.

The world needs to finally be serious about trying to find a solution to this decades-old conflict.

Analysis by ⁦‪John Lyons www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Looking to speak to an academic or someone working in publishing for a radio interview on diversity in the publishing industry :)

If you or anyone you know would like to know more please feel free to reach out!

Trump moves to block report on election interference and classified documents cases – US politics live President-elect’s lawyers ask attorney general to stop release of outgoing special counsel Jack Smith’s report Good morning, US politics blog readers. Donald Trump may be less than two weeks away from returning to the White House, but his lawyers are…

Trump moves to block report on election interference and classified documents cases – US politics live

New US Congress means Trump's MAGA plans aren't guaranteed A new US Congress has assembled, and the Republicans have a majority in both chambers. But president-elect Donald Trump faces some likely roadblocks.

‘The clock is ticking': Trump has been elected president for a four-year term, but Republican control of Congress may not last that long.

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Yes! On the contrary, and Idk about other southeast Asian, but even though risotto is technically Italian rice, I don’t vibe with it as much. But pasta? Yes.

Wi-fi routers found in Australian homes could be banned in US over China cyber threat TP-Link claims to be the world's largest provider of consumer wi-fi networking devices, which are widely used across the United States, Australia and elsewhere.

Questions for Australia amid reports US could ban TP-Link router sales in 2025 www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

What does social cohesion actually mean — when the people speaking those words are part of the majority who wish to preserve the status quo?

'Silent killer' heatwave in 2009 a deadly wake-up call for Australia Public life ground to a halt, many lost power, and scores of people died behind closed doors. What sounds like the start of a post-apocalyptic movie is in fact Melbourne in January 2009.

Brilliant feature on the ABC this morning by @jolauder.bsky.social, @journalims.bsky.social and colleagues who aren’t on BSky yet.

Climate change is rarely this compelling.

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When DV victims are mistaken for perpetrators, the fallout is devastating Imagine a situation of domestic violence, where the primary aggressor — the person perpetrating the violence — is identified as the victim. And with the tables turned, that victim is wrongly identifie...

What is misidentification? How the legal system fails victims of domestic violence. It can "happen to anyone", but data shows marginalised women and LGBTQI+ people were most at risk.

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Energized by next Trump term, red states move agendas further right Governors, legislators and attorneys general ready plans for the “perfect storm of conservative policies” coming to many state legislatures and Washington.

Governors, legislators and attorneys general ready plans for the “perfect storm of conservative policies” coming to many state legislatures and Washington.

Trump invites China’s leader Xi Jinping to his presidential inauguration Xi is expected to rebuff the offer, as attending the event might put the Chinese president in a subservient position Donald Trump has invited China’s hardline president, Xi Jinping, to his inauguration next month in an audacious diplomatic gambit that…

Trump invites China’s leader Xi Jinping to his presidential inauguration

BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

As I said -- only a matter of time before news orgs lashed out at Apple's lackluster (and evidently dangerously wrong) AI summaries of their work. This is shambolic and the BBC has every right to be furious about it.

Australia backs 'immediate, unconditional and permanent' Gaza ceasefire Australia has joined the overwhelming majority of countries and voted in support of an "immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" in Gaza at the United Nations' General Assembly.

Australia has supported a UN resolution calling for an "immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" in Gaza, the strongest language the country has supported to date.
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