@WakeinFright

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 Melbourne
jeraa.org.au/
Joined February 2009
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As authoritarian influence and disinformation grow across the Indo-Pacific, Australia is still failing to back one of its strongest assets: trusted journalism. @WakeInFright @RMIT theconversation.com/why-aust…

Why Australia’s cuts to news services in the Indo-Pacific are a failure of soft diplomacy

As authoritarian influence and disinformation grow across the Indo-Pacific, Australia is still failing to back one of its strongest assets: trusted journalism.

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Simona Foltyn@SimonaFoltynApr 25
Comprehensive account of how Israel killed journalist Amal Khalil and wounded her colleague Zeinab Faraj, by @AP @sewella and Bassam Hatoum apnews.com/article/lebanon-i…

Wounded Lebanese journalist recounts hours of agony when Israeli strike killed colleague

A Lebanese journalist wounded in an Israeli airstrike that killed her colleague describes hours of agony as they waited for help.

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David Pocock
@DavidPocockFeb 17
Yesterday the Govt tried to quietly announce that they had approved a 4.41% average increase in private health insurance premiums. The largest increase in 9 years. Cost of living pressures are already biting hard, and I regularly hear from people who have paid PHI for decades, but still face huge gap fees when they need treatment. Meanwhile, some of the biggest insurers, including Medibank and Bupa, have posted climbing profits. How will Australians benefit from this record rise? abc.net.au/news/2026-02-18/p…

Private health patients stung by exclusions after downgrading policies

Australians are increasingly downgrading their health cover, with 360,000 people leaving gold policies since 2020. But some have been left out of pocket for surgeries they thought they were covered...

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David Crowe@CroweDMFeb 4
This is terrible news. Go well, Michael, in whatever comes next.
Michael Miller@MikeMillerDCFeb 4
It was an honor to be @washingtonpost's first Sydney bureau chief. Unfortunately, I'm also the last. The paper is shrinking foreign coverage. I've lost my job. Worse, millions of readers will lose my colleagues' brilliant coverage. At a time of tumult, we need more info, not less
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Jonathan Josephs
@jonathanjosephs25 Dec 2025
WATCH MY LATEST 👇 🏊Darn, I forgot to take my swimming trunks to work again! 🎄400 people spent #Christmas2025 morning swimming in freezing cold water in #London's Hyde Park 🤔I went along to find out why! MORE: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4d…
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We offer two journalism programs at RMIT, the Bachelor of Communication (Journalism), and the Graduate Diploma in Journalism - for students who have done an undergraduate degree in something else. #rmit #journo 3/3
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A particularly big congratulations to our hashtag#RMIT hashtag#journalism students including the student of the year Charlotte Wilkes who is adding yet another gong to the pool room. #journalists #rmit #rmitjournos 2/3
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The kids are alright. Actually they're brilliant. So pleased to see so many great stories produced by Australian and NZ students being acknowledged in our @JERAA Ossie Awards. Congratulations to every student who entered their work and the staff who supported them. #journos 1/3
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Delighted to be able to chat about public broadcasting with this crew. What a great format for a real conversation. Spin Cycle – rrr.org.au/shared/broadcast-… via @3RRRFM

Shared moment from Spin Cycle – 13 November 2025 — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

An episode of Spin Cycle on 13 November 2025

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Our @DartAsiaPacific study captures evidence that newsroom leaders need more training and resources to support their teams. "Am I Failing to Protect Them?” The Impact of Abuse (of Journalists) on Newsroom Leaders in the Asia Pacific tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

“Am I Failing to Protect Them?” The Impact of Abuse (of Journalists) on Newsroom Leaders in the...

Research has increasingly focused on the impact of technology facilitated abuse on journalists and media workers. However, little is known about the views of newsroom leaders, who need to support t...

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Tracey Holmes
@TraceyLeeHolmes13 Oct 2025
🎤🚨📰 The Afghanistan Women’s Football team has been unable to depart Australia on two successive days because #FIFA has been unable to get them visas to the #UAE where they are due to start a tournament on Thursday. There is a scramble to move the tournament to #Qatar. #AWNT
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Jill Singer Oration at RMIT cancelled due to illness. We will try to reschedule at another stage.
Alexandra Wake, PhD@WakeinFright25 Aug 2025
RMIT journos - it's not too late to get a ticket to the Jill Singer oration tomorrow. A chance to catch up and remember @snooplady events.humanitix.com/jill-si…
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RMIT journos - it's not too late to get a ticket to the Jill Singer oration tomorrow. A chance to catch up and remember @snooplady events.humanitix.com/jill-si…
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I have always wondered why people at Flagstaff nicely alight and stand aside to allow others to get off but at North Melbourne they stand their ground in the train, making it hard to get off or on. Musings of a commuter. #metro #cityloop hoping for good manners on the new lines
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Well done Kylie
Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert
@KMooreGilbert13 Aug 2025
For the first time since my academic career was effectively destroyed by my wrongful arrest in Iran in 2018, I have published a peer-reviewed journal article. Still not sure whether academia is where I'm meant to be, but I'm pleased to have finally got a tentative first step back on the ladder. My article is titled 'Evaluating Australia’s consular management of cases of wrongful and arbitrary detention' and is published by the Australian Journal of Political Science @AusPSA @tandfonline It's open access, which means anyone can download it. Feedback welcome! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Evaluating Australia’s consular management of cases of wrongful and arbitrary detention

When an Australian citizen is wrongfully or arbitrarily detained abroad the response they should expect from their government at a consular, political and diplomatic level is often unclear. Efforts...

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Congratulations to Dr Lisa Krantz of the University of Montana whose thesis won the David Ethics Award at the AEJMC conference in San Francisco @AEJMC @LeonaONeill1 @PascalGuenee @tlpix @WakeinFright
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Dr Glenda Cooper of the City University St Georges, University of London, spoke about preparing journalism students to interview those caught up in trauma @AEJMC @karenfw2 @PascalGuenee @WJEC @tlpix @WakeinFright
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Great to pose with Elaine Steyn, a WJEC steering committee member, and Pascal Guenee, the incoming WJEC president, at the closing plenary of the WJEC 2025 conference in SanFrancisco @AEJMC @karenfw2 @PascalGuenee @ELAINESTEYN1 @tlpix @WakeinFright
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Diane M. Foley gave a thought-provoking talk about 'Doing Journalism in Hostile Environments' at the closing plenary of the WJEC conference in San Francisco @AEJMC @LeonaONeill1 @PascalGuenee @tlpix @WakeinFright @karenfw2 @BEAWebTweets @glendacooper
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The key feedback from our Syndicate is attached. Well done to everyone involved @AEJMC @BEAWebTweets @karenfw2 @LeonaONeill1 @PascalGuenee @tlpix @WakeinFright
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