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Deputy Lifestyle Editor for and . Third-culture kid. I eat news for breakfast. Opinions my own. sophie.aubrey@theage.com.au

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  1. 19 hours ago

    Urgh.

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    Who had “Dan Andrews becomes a WA dance floor sensation” on their 2020 bingo card?
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    Oct 17

    I sometimes wonder how I’d explain the Brownlow phenomenon if aliens descended. So I made them a cheat sheet.

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    Oct 17

    "Tonight's result has been strong and it is clear that Labour will lead the government for the next three years." Labour leader Jacinda Ardern has delivered her victory speech to a rapturous audience. More updates here:

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  4. Oct 15

    😳”Mr. Baquet and Mr. Kahn, I should note here, are my boss’s boss’s boss and my boss’s boss, respectively, and my writing about The Times while on its payroll brings with it all sorts of potential conflicts of interest and is generally a bit of a nightmare.”

    I'm coming to this late, but the ' dismembering of its own reporters' shortcomings in the now tainted Caliphate podcast is really something. If you've listened to it, you'll want to give this a read.
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  5. Oct 15

    Never ask a magpie: “how are you going?”

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    Oct 13

    lmao: 'Dreams' skateboarding TikTok star threatens to sue Australian streetwear brand Culture Kings for using his image to sell shirts

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  7. Oct 13

    Blown away by the strength of parents Victoria and Danny Liston, whose baby Kiera died in May this year just five hours after being born. They're now devoted to raising awareness and funds for Group B Strep research, and they deserve every bit of support

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    Oct 10

    I feel like every single person in Melbourne has snapped this weekend?

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    Oct 10

    Interesting piece from about the real story playing out at Andrews' extraordinary pressers. They have laid bare part of the process and thrown up deeper challenges for the media.

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  10. Oct 10

    Extremely painful news to swallow for anyone with close and elderly relatives in Europe or the US 💔

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    Oct 8

    One hundred days of Dan: how the Victorian premier talked over heads of the journalists

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  12. Oct 10

    “We’ve become accustomed to disappointment, but this week has been hard. Even expressing how fed up we are is difficult when feelings run so hot.”

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  13. Oct 8

    Mikakos: "With respect, such a submission has insufficient regard to the realities of governmental operation and decision-making." YIKES.

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  14. Oct 7

    "Trump spent three days in the hospital. He arrived and left by helicopter. And he received multiple coronavirus tests, oxygen, steroids and an experimental antibody treatment. For someone who isn’t president, that would cost more than $100,000."

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  15. Oct 7

    'Mrs Sonkar said the new requirement was in addition to the minimum $8000 visa application fee, the more than two years it takes the department to process partner visas plus the extensive paperwork required to prove that a relationship is genuine.' Absurd.

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  16. Oct 7

    My colleague uses words like "utilising" (using) and "socialising" (sharing, as in documents)

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  17. Oct 7

    Why Conspiracy Theories Are So Addictive Right Now

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    Oct 6

    Facebook banning all openly QAnon-related accounts is a big deal. As always, the million-dollar question is how they actually enforce the policy, but it's farther than many people expected them to go.

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    Oct 6

    "We can no longer pretend that we don't know exactly who and what this president stands for," Michelle Obama says of Trump in a new video. "Search your hearts, and your conscience, and then vote for Joe Biden like your lives depend on it," she says.

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    Oct 6

    Facebook has removed a post from President Trump in which he falsely claimed that Covid-19 is less deadly than the seasonal flu

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