Sian Prior

Remembering Balibo — Sian Prior Their eyes stare straight out at you from five grainy black-and-white photos on the wall. Such young faces, framed by luxuriant waves of hair in various stages of bouffant rebellion. The hair is unmis...

Fifty years ago this October the Balibo Five media workers were murdered - we still remember them. Wrote this essay twenty years ago for Meanjin. www.sianprior.com/all-articles...

Discovered Scott’s Head, NSW yesterday. AND ran into a Prior cousin!

Been driving the campervan from Melbourne to the Gold Coast this week. Fleeing the cold, as usual. Few highlights here (more to come in a second post) 😊

Smiling pic from a library workshop I ran recently. 😊

This is mass murder and most Western governments are complicit

Enough is enough.

NuclearPlume.au - Mapping the Fukushima radiation plume in aus The seven sites on this map have been selected by the federal Coalition to house multiple nuclear power reactors.

Almost 200,000 Australians would be at risk of a nuclear accident if Peter Dutton’s proposed nuclear scheme goes ahead, according to new research. See the maps here: nuclearplume.au

Just three places left!

Nine Publishing relies on freelancers to deliver quality journalism, but with a business model that relies on freelance rates going backwards in real terms, freelancers cannot continue to sustainably do their jobs.

SIGN AND SHARE THE PETITION NOW- www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...

Well this explains Duttons sudden interest in gas #auspol

I’ll be there 💪

Seriously??! 🙁

Australian authors and illustrators impacted by the LibGen database. On 21 March 2025 The Atlantic published a search tool which allows authors to search for their books in LibGen, one of the datasets that has been used to train Meta's generative AI system. It is anoth...

There’s been so much moral panic about Chinese IP theft. Time to pay attention to the States. Great initiative from the @asauthors.bsky.social organising Oz writers to take action. If your work has been stolen, let the ASA know via the form below

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Friends. There are an infinite number of AI-generated bullshit images out there in the social media landscape. Use your skeptical brains. Check. Check again. And again. When in doubt, check it out. Ask yourself - in whose interest is it that this image and its message are being promulgated online?

Dutton getting all hysterical over nothing #auspol

And don’t get me started on Brendan Nelson. What a cosy little cabal of war-fetishising money-grabbers

Kim Beazley. What a pathetic political disappointment he’s turned out to be. 😠 #FourCorners @abcnewsbot.bsky.social

An email from the coroner An accident on Victoria’s Surf Coast unleashes memories of the author’s father, drowned 60 years ago – and coincides with the arrival of an official account of his last moments.

I wrote an essay for The Saturday Paper about reading the Coroner’s Report on our father’s death ❤️💔 www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/2025/03...

Morrison wouldn’t hold a hose and Dutton can’t fill a sandbag

Writing Compelling True Stories - Writing NSW This writing course, Writing Compelling True Stories with Sian Prior will be held at Writing NSW in Sydney, teaching skills for creative non-fiction.

NSW friends - I'm running a one day non fiction writing workshop in Sydney on May 9th - all welcome!
writingnsw.org.au/whats-on/cou...

Regulator approvals exploratory gas wells near Victorian marine parks A multinational petroleum giant has received approval to drill up to six exploratory gas wells in the Otway Basin, near biologically important areas for protected marine species.

“Australia does not have a gas shortage, we just have a small habit of allowing the Woodsides and the Santoses of the world to export it all overseas, and then we're left scraping the bottom of the barrel for domestic supply.” - Marine Conservation Society #auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

If you were Zelensky would you trust POTUS to keep you safe when you visited the USA? Or would the 🎃 deliver you to Putin’s assassins?

Just rang to make an appt with my GP. Insisted I book a half hour appt - at least $170. If they’d let me book a quarter hour appt they still couldn’t tell me exactly how much it would cost -‘at least $100 but it could be more’. No wonder people are flooding the hospital emergency depts. 😡

Video snippet courtesy of Belfast legend David Holmes on Instagram...

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OMG Clive Palmer and his Trumpet of Patriots I can’t even 🤡🤡🤡🤡

Creative Non Fiction has opened so many new doors for me over the past two decades. I love sharing this writing form with aspiring story-tellers. Why don't you join us for my next six week online short course? Begins April 28th - all welcome. www.sianprior.com/creative-non...

Winner winner cake for dinner 🍰

Another day of weathering suggestions we should use AI in a creative writing course. Came home, tried to talk to my dog. 🤷‍♀️ When AI can translate my English into doglish, I might be interested. Prefer to re-read Laura Jean McKay’s novel ‘The Animals In That Country’ and enjoy the awe that provokes.