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Joyce Cheng
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Writing & teaching | Currently UniMelb; former journalist at ABC | Posts are my views | like ≠ endorsement |📮: joycechengcontact@proton.me
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As the workforce evolves, younger generations are rejecting a frenetic approach to work that can create undue stress and cross work-life balance boundaries.
‘It’s PR, not the ER’: Gen Z is resisting the workplace emergency
In an evolving workforce, Gen Z is rejecting a frenetic, stress-inducing approach to work that crosses work-life balance boundaries and leads to burnout.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Dear friends,
As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here:
#everynightapoem
September 24, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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I am not a Hannah Arendt stan, but she nailed this one: 'Under such circumstances… the Palestinian Jews would degenerate into one of those small warrior tribes about whose possibilities and importance history has amply informed us since the days of Sparta.'
Sparta was an authoritarian state that suppressed all forms of cultural and political expression in order to brainwash its citizens into a life dedicated to war. Every year they carried out a murderous campaign against their slave population, the Helots, to keep them in place.
September 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Neryssa is great. If you want a great person on your team in journalism and media, hire her!
Just finished learning my #ABCs, and now I’m seeing what else is out there!

What’s next for me? I’m open to both short- and long- term #media and #communications roles, specialising in #digitalmedia, #currentaffairs and the #AsiaPacific. I’m also going to give freelancing a go.
August 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Protesters took to the streets over the weekend in the wake of a declaration of an "entirely man-made" famine in Gaza City, and the Coalition is gearing up for another fight over net zero.
Record crowds at Gaza protests as Israel ramps up plans for ground invasion
Protesters took to the streets over the weekend in the wake of a declaration of an "entirely man-made" famine in Gaza City, and the Coalition is gearing up for another fight over net zero.
www.crikey.com.au
August 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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In Opinion | In a survey, 60% of Gen Z adults said that they wished they could return to a time before everyone was “plugged in.” “That, of course, would involve returning to a time that largely predates their own lives,” the research psychologist Clay Routledge writes.
Opinion | Gen Z-ers Are Nostalgic for a Time Before They Were Born
Longing for the past can be good news for the future.
nyti.ms
August 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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scoop: PBS is cutting its budget by 21% to deal with federal funding cuts
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
PBS Slashes Budget by 21% After Federal Funding Cuts
www.nytimes.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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ABC management postponed a meeting with union representatives after deeming an MEAA poster a “psychosocial hazard” and a risk to workplace health and safety. Daanyal Saeed reports.
'Psychosocial hazard': ABC management stops union meeting over meme poster
A furore erupted at the ABC after a union's meme poster was deemed to be a risk to workplace health and safety.
www.crikey.com.au
August 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Dressing well was also not limited to the rich and famous. A reader sent me pics of his grandpa, born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to a working-class Chinese family. He immigrated to London and then Canada, where he worked in an auto parts store and by installing light fixtures.
August 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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This is a very common tankie take when it comes to China on democracy and human rights.

My favourite genre is ‘we shouldn’t force the whole LGBTQA+ rights thing on China because it’s a western invention’ which implies there were no queer people before white folks came along.
August 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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wha da FUK does "on track to hit 700 million weekly users" mean??? do we really publish random user projections now?? @edzitron.com

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/04/o...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT to hit 700 million weekly users, up 4x from last year
The milestone follows a $8.3 billion raise from top investors, including Dragoneer Investment Group, Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.
www.cnbc.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The federal court has found that the ABC had contravened s772(1) of the Fair Work Act by terminating Lattouf’s employment “for reasons including that she held a political opinion opposing the Israeli military campaign in Gaza”. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Federal court rules ABC unlawfully terminated Antoinette Lattouf after ‘orchestrated campaign by pro-Israel lobbyists’
Journalist was taken off air three days into five-day contract in December 2023 after sharing Gaza post on social media
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
If your cooking is inspired by Chinese food from your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and family friends, we want to hear from you!
June 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Staff who have worked hard for the ABC over multiple years or projects have a right to secure, ongoing employment that affords them the security to do their jobs well, for the public they serve.
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Play School staffer sues the ABC in the Federal Court
The case, brought by the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) has been filed in the Federal Court on behalf of Tom Scott, a digital producer on the children’s show.
meaa.io
June 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Every post is first scanned by AI systems, which are particularly sensitive to any references to the Tiananmen anniversary.

A training manual for censors working for Douyin labelled the world-famous Tank Man image a "subversive picture".

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Why a picture of 'one banana and four apples' could be censored in China
Hundreds of pages of secret documents leaked to the ABC provide a rare glimpse into how human censors and AI erase references to Beijing's violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989.
www.abc.net.au
June 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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In case you were wondering how things are going in Hong Kong this week, Customs and Excise officers (along with other unidentified plainclothes agents) conducted a four hour inspection of an incense shop run by ex-district councillor Katrina Chan. Why? Chan sold candles for $6.4
Ex-councillor's shop visited by customs on eve of Tiananmen anniversary
HK customs officers inspected ex-district councillor Katrina Chan’s incense shop for hours on the eve of the Tiananmen crackdown anniversary, accusing her of failing to comply with product safety regu...
hongkongfp.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
36 years. Each day, we carry the memory of #1989 - the silence, the courage, the cost. Never forgotten. #TiananmenMassacre
June 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Örkesh Dölet descended on to Tiananmen Square with thousands of fellow student protesters. He’s now 36 years into exile | Nuria Khasim
Örkesh Dölet descended on to Tiananmen Square with thousands of fellow student protesters. He’s now 36 years into exile | Nuria Khasim
As the anniversary of the 1989 massacre approaches, the Uyghur activist reflects on his lifelong dedication to the fight for democracy When I was little, mum used to take us to visit an elderly Uyghur couple every year. We would climb up the winding concrete stairs in a Soviet-era apartment block and be greeted with a warmth that felt like family. Over piping hot bowls of Uyghur chay, mum would talk to them for hours while my brother and I listened. I always assumed they were relatives of ours, until mum told me that they were the parents of her friend Örkesh Dölet, and they had not seen their son for over 20 years. As a child, I didn’t know who Örkesh was, but my heart broke for his parents, who clearly loved and missed their son so very dearly. Growing up in Beijing, dad used to take us to Tiananmen Square on weekends to fly colourful swallow-shaped kites. Due to censorship, I never knew that the pristine, neatly paved tiles beneath the soles of my sparkly light-up sneakers were once carpeted with the corpses of brave pro-democracy student protesters. I never saw the famous photo of “tank man”. I never knew the date “4 June 1989” had any significance for the city that I called home. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Nearly 50 Chinese yaoi writers have reportedly been detained by police, with confessions of their ‘crimes’ posted on social media. All known detainees so far are women.
海棠文学城的云间判决书下来了,4年6个月,罚没1200000翻一倍就是2400000,18年到24年,120万就是每个月2-3万的收入 ,这还是海棠头部作者的收入了,每天日六辛辛苦苦,根本没有所谓黄文收益千万级,甚至比不上N号房的暴利
June 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Exclusive | The ABC appears to have taken down an interview with Palestine advocate Nasser Mashni from its website and iview. @daanysaeed.bsky.social reports.
ABC pulls interview with Palestine advocate from website and iview
During the interview, Nasser Mashni made a pointed remark that it was time 'for Palestine to be free, from the river to the sea'.
www.crikey.com.au
May 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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The press gallery needs to get its head around the gender shift in parliament. So far it's not off to a great start. @mediumandmessage.bsky.social writes.
Australian politics has changed. Media's old blokes must shift their gaze
The press gallery needs to get its head around the gender shift in parliament. So far it's not off to a great start.
www.crikey.com.au
May 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “ No Other Land ” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, Jewish activists on the scene said.

apnews.com/article/no-o...
Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained, activists say
Activists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military.
apnews.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM