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Josh Robertson
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Investigative journalist at ABC News
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It’s me reading the first chapter of my book Universal Predator - a hair-raising true story about taking down a dangerous cult.
Order now in time for Christmas! 🎄🎁 youtu.be/mcqETL6UlA0?...
Universal Predator - Esther Rockett reads the first 2 chapters of her memoir
YouTube video by Esther Rockett
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December 8, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Activists who became a political target - including of National Leader David Littleproud- have sparked a government investigation of alleged cruelty in slaughterhouses, incl 4 in Mr Littleproud’s own seat #auspol
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Activists with secret cameras spark slaughterhouse investigation
A federal MP said these animal activists had "no place in our society".  Now four slaughterhouses in his electorate are under investigation for alleged animal cruelty.
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March 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has promoted a convicted rapist to run its federal election campaign
#auspol25

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Convicted rapist runs One Nation election campaign
Pauline Hanson's party has quietly rehired convicted sex offender Sean Black a second time — this time as campaign director.
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February 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Australia’s biggest apartment developer Meriton flouted stop work orders from government as workers “in fear” on luxury Gold Coast high-rise project www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
Meriton ignored safety orders as workers 'in fear' on luxury high-rise
A former safety officer has blown the whistle on a culture of "fear and intimidation" within Australia's biggest apartment developer.
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February 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Frank and fearless bureaucrats probably weren’t what the Trump administration was after
It’s Not Amateur Hour Anymore — The Atlantic
Trump’s team is savvy and has been planning to remake the federal government for years. January 29, 2025 The first 10 days of Donald Trump’s presidency have seen such an onslaught of executive orders ...
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January 31, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Finding out the mood on the street regarding Grace Tame’s shirt
January 30, 2025 at 6:21 AM

“America’s decline is not a problem. And no one who thinks it is one has a solution.” @samuelmoyn.bsky.social predicts Trump will have “hilarious and horrendous” effects trying in vain to “buck the tide of history”

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Trump wants to reverse America’s decline. Good luck | Samuel Moyn
Trump and his supporters would like to buck the tide of history, but they could end up pulled further into it, and have no way to stop it
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January 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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A future of dust’ – Jeff Sparrow on Gaza and why, in evil times, writers have a responsibility to take sides - johnmenadue.com/a-future-of-...
‘A future of dust’ – Jeff Sparrow on Gaza and why, in evil times, writers have a responsibility to take sides - Pearls and Irritations
Invited to discuss the political agency of ordinary people, then told our audience couldn’t hear about the world’s most significant crisis.
johnmenadue.com
December 7, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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News Corp is using an AI replication of the voice of one of their cricket commentators for videos he is too busy to do a voice over for. www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/cricke...
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December 5, 2024 at 8:29 PM
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In his biography of Elon Musk, Isaacson writes: “He was not hardwired to have empathy. Or, to put it in less technical terms, he could be an asshole.” Now, Musk has been tasked with cutting government programs that affect real people.
Fabulous conversation tonight between John Seigenthaler and author Walter Isaacson at #DialogueVanderbilt
December 6, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Family ‘slurred as abusers’ after helping expose sex predator scandal in government aged care facility

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Family 'slurred as abusers' after exposing aged care sex predator scandal
Trevor Lennox was told his wife had been sexually abused by a Queensland government aged care worker. After speaking out, Mr Lennox was accused of the same thing.
www.abc.net.au
December 3, 2024 at 9:17 PM