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Rear Window columnist . Likes tomatoes & economics. Don't tweet about tomatoes. That'd be weird. Tips/abuse to myriam.robin@afr.com

Melbourne via Cairo
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    May 2

    My tip for staying entertained during a lockdown: get a new housemate. Mine’s a hoot (though he did take 9 months to get here)

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  2. 4 hours ago

    I love Egyptian breakfast food so much I’ve started following a place that serves it in Toronto on Instagram. Have never been to Canada but it’s now on the bucket list. Though, maybe it makes more sense to just go to Egypt again

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  3. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    Love this story by : the podcasting barristers who saved the day for Sydney protesters

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  4. Retweeted
    Jun 11

    Alan Joyce sits in the middle seat on Sydney-Melbourne flight to demonstrate new safety measures (though with his own executives flanking him)

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  5. Jun 11

    This is very interesting - had wondered ...

    The noble hearts at Rupert Murdoch's The Australian always see the best in people. At Ferrari, some people see a grubby sex saga. They see a hero.
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  6. Jun 11

    Very much hoping my parents can meet my baby soon

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  7. Jun 11

    🙌 🙌 🙌

    PM Morrison says if states want borders opened for international students, internal borders must be opened first.
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  8. Retweeted
    Jun 11

    “Those on the post sharing the Voller appeal decision are hilariously tame. ‘I somewhat disagree,’ wrote one person. But if you scroll to the post sharing Saturday’s last-minute judgment authorising Sydney’s BLM march, something very familiar emerges.”

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  9. Retweeted
    Jun 10

    New: Zoom closed an account used by U.S.-based Chinese activists, after they held an event marking the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. "We are outraged by this act from Zoom, a U.S company," said & other activists in a statement.

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  10. Retweeted
    Jun 10

    excluso w/ -- Verve Super, a specialty super fund tailored to women and sub-fund of fast-growing ethical investor Future Super, invests in near-identical assets to its parent fund but costs members hundreds more to access those investments

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  11. Retweeted
    Jun 10

    This story is so lovely. It is wonderful that Will has been found and Ben Gibbs sounds like a good soul.

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  12. Jun 9

    . and on just how consistent Donald Trump's been for decades

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    Jun 9

    This story about Microsoft’s racist robot that requires intervention by the humans it is taking the job of to stop it publishing articles critical of its racism is *quite* a journey

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    Jun 8

    Thursday had been a relatively normal day for Peter Weinberg. Then the was falsely accused of assaulting a child and the internet mob came for him. My story for :

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  15. Retweeted
    Jun 8

    AFR amends, defends, apologises for criticised cartoon

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  16. Jun 6

    Cursed website

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  17. Jun 6

    Everyone knows babies can’t talk, or sit, or roll. But did you know babies can’t even control their arms? They barely know they have limbs! Truly amazing the human race has lasted this long

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  18. Jun 6

    Finally read ’s investigation into how a company no one had ever heard of got its work on COVID-19 published in the world’s most prestigious medical journals, influencing WHO policy and upending dozens of medical trials in the process. Wow!

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  19. Retweeted
    Jun 5

    All you mob, here they are, Barristers Stephen Lawrence and Felicity Graham, fighting for our mob all the way from Dubbo and winning the Court of Appeal decision! Huge thanks to these legal geniuses and fighters for our mob 🖤💛❤

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  20. Retweeted
    Jun 5

    People sometimes write to ask for advice on building media orgs, because has miraculously managed to make a print magazine with no ads or investors survive for 4 years. I want other people to succeed as well, so here's the best advice I have:

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    Jun 5

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