Tho tbh I’m pumped to be 30 like heck yeah

I USED TO THINK I’D BE DONE AT TWENTY
NOW AT ✨TWENTY NINE ✨ THE ROAD AHEAD APEARS THE SAME!

Also the first time I tried banh hoi at a restaurant like damn it was so impressive! They are very al dente and have a great texture. So to know that you can make banh hoi at home, so easily is a game changer.

I’ve only tried banh hoi in a Vietnamese or Vietnamese-ish context but I feel like they could be a good stand in for lots of dishes, or times when you just don’t want to spend ages cooking rice or noodles. I don’t think they could work in hot soup but I wonder if they could be used in a stir fry ?

You can serve banh hoi with meat and vegetables which is traditional but you can also use it in rice paper rolls, and I made a noodle salad thing with banh hoi I chopped into smaller pieces for lunch

Look these dudes seem to be wearing actual expensive fragrances which would be nice if it wasn’t so aggressive

Don’t complain about a male loneliness epidemic when you wear so much perfume that I’m forced to move seats on the bus.

To be abundantly clear, I’m not criticising local Canberra news outlets for not covering Queanbeyan-Palerang enough. It’s not their patch. Local news in Canberra is resource strapped too, so it’s good to see ANY effort by Canberra outlets covering news in nearby towns. But these towns deserve more

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Ngl, Queanbeyan has a special place in my heart they deserve fearless and dedicated local news.

Local Canberra news, Canberra Times, Region, local ABC etc will cover Queanbeyan stories here and there (and it’s usually QBN centric), and big stories in the broader LGA, but there’s no dedicated local media regularly covering the the region.

I should note, when I worked at News Corp I covered QPRC stories here and there. Frankly I’d describe Queanbeyan-Palerang as a news desert. The Queanbeyan Age (ACM) was essentially shuttered in 2020 (though the website still exists but just shares news from other ACM mastheads).

And also curious if other local councils in NSW or Australia are hiring “cadet journalists” or “journalists” in this way.

TLDR, great PR gig, not a journalism gig, QPRC wyd? /rant over.

I’m curious if QPRC is working with any universities, if these bachelor degrees are journalism degrees (or if they are broader media degrees) and if these degrees are explicitly journalism degrees, what uni is ok’ing PR work as practical journalism experience?

The other thing, this Cadetship comes with the council paying for a bachelors degree. Again, if this was for PR, awesome. The role description- which includes writing media releases- describes PR work. Nothing wrong with doing PR, just call it PR y’know.

But ultimately early career journos need jobs, so teaching those skills becomes secondary to that. Anyway, what’s going to happen when a cadet journalist, hired directly by a local council has a story about a controversy regarding that council? I guess they’ll only do fluff and puff pieces.

Keeping local governments accountable is fast becoming an endangered skill. And local governments obviously have more resources to employ people than media companies. We need to support early career journos in being brave enough to ask difficult questions of powerful people and institutions