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@beneltham

National Affairs Correspondent, New Matilda; arts journalist, Crikey; Lecturer, Monash University.

Melbourne
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Gått med november 2009
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  1. Fastnålad Tweet
    15 juni 2018

    I’m writing a book about Australian art and culture. If you’re an Australian artist and you’d like to be in it, get in touch with me here

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  2. för 9 timmar sedan

    A fortnite ago Chris confused an ABC book review show with a plot to murder conservatives. Not a lot of credibility

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    . examines the ABC’s ‘true colours’. MORE:
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  3. för 9 timmar sedan

    This tweet shows the problem for Labor with fossil fuels. You can’t have a just transition if there’s no transition

    The pledge doesn't mention Adani, just saying
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  4. för 10 timmar sedan

    It’s astonishing that Labor wants to sign up for more gas production in 2019. Gas is a fossil fuel.

    So & announce that the tax haven based multinational gas cartel running 🇦🇺 gas will get a new $1.5bn capital subsidy to build pipelines to export even more LNG. This subsidy goes to a royalty evading industry that also pays next to no corporate tax!
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    för 18 timmar sedan

    "If strategy is to mean anything, it must mean limitation" A fine piece by in The Washington Quarterly, 'Advice for a Dark Age'

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  6. för 19 timmar sedan

    Anyways, thanks to everyone who bothered to discuss this with me. I'm off to go do a longform interview

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  7. för 19 timmar sedan

    Of course, some of the criticism is valid (see above). But the level of anger or even hatred currently directed at people trying to do a difficult job does concern me, and not just because I am one. Democratic institutions need journalism, and they need trust.

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  8. för 19 timmar sedan

    Some of the abuse directed at journalists on this platform is deeply delusional. A lot of it is outright racist and misogynist. And much of the criticism is untethered from an understanding of the difficulties of doing journalism well.

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  9. för 19 timmar sedan

    I've been doing journalism of one kind of another for two decades, and the longer I do it the more respect I have for those who are really good at it.

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  10. för 19 timmar sedan

    Finding new things out is difficult. Properly checking facts is time-consuming. Grappling with sources is challenging. News judgment is a tricky and malleable thing best learnt through long experience.

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  11. för 19 timmar sedan

    I think it is worth defending journalism as a craft (as opposed to a profession). And it is difficult, even if it is not bricklaying or nursing or some other job you may agree is worthwhile.

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  12. för 19 timmar sedan

    There is much to criticise in the contemporary mediascape, and I agree with many of the criticisms. Access journalism too close to power, one-sided hot takes reflexively re-upping culture wars talking points, or simple inaccuracy ... there's plenty to dislike. But ...

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  13. för 19 timmar sedan

    On the one hand I regret this post, given the anger it has stirred up. On the other hand, I have really enjoyed all the people who have genuinely engaged with me on the state of contemporary journalism ...

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  14. Retweetade
    för 20 timmar sedan

    I am about halfway through analytic philosopher ’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. It’s excellent for many reasons, but in particular, I appreciate that it has clarified for me a particular dilemma I run into as a social scientist who studies gender.

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  15. Retweetade
    22 apr.

    The Futures of Frederick Douglass: An Introduction | via

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  16. Retweetade
    22 apr.

    Grey favours are endemic in the way parties do business. Stacking statutory organisations with corporate sector mates. At one stage Chair, CEO and Head Policy were . Every recommendation from that point was privatisation of public infrastructure

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  17. Retweetade
    22 apr.

    FACT CHECK ALERT🚨 Murray-Darling water buyback: factcheck of Scott Morrison's claims. Did Labor use the same process to buy water? No.... ‘This process changed when Joyce became minister.’

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  18. Retweetade
    för 21 timmar sedan

    ‘The advice on the sale of overland flows was prepared by the Brisbane office of Colliers International. A year earlier Colliers was acting as agent for EAA to sell the properties.’ So that’s advice TO the department?

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  19. Retweetade
    22 apr.

    Exclusive: The company which received $79 million in water buybacks donated $55,000 to the Liberal Party before the 2013 election. One of the two donations was made while Angus Taylor was still a director of the parent company based in the Cayman Islands

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  20. Retweetade
    22 apr.

    Here is the interview you can listen yourself

    You can listen back to interviewing on water buy backs, here: (Pic: AAP)
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  21. Retweetade
    22 apr.

    “I think of much of what I do as some kind of poetry.” —Luc Sante

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