Sian Prior
@sian-prior.bsky.social
Author (‘Shy: a memoir’, ‘Childless: a story of freedom and longing’), journo, uni lecturer, singer, reader, campervanner, earth-lover 🌏 ❤️
Fifty years ago this October the Balibo Five media workers were murdered - we still remember them. Wrote this essay twenty years ago for Meanjin. www.sianprior.com/all-articles...
Remembering Balibo — Sian Prior
Their eyes stare straight out at you from five grainy black-and-white photos on the wall. Such young faces, framed by luxuriant waves of hair in various stages of bouffant rebellion. The hair is unmis...
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August 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Fifty years ago this October the Balibo Five media workers were murdered - we still remember them. Wrote this essay twenty years ago for Meanjin. www.sianprior.com/all-articles...
Discovered Scott’s Head, NSW yesterday. AND ran into a Prior cousin!
June 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Discovered Scott’s Head, NSW yesterday. AND ran into a Prior cousin!
Been driving the campervan from Melbourne to the Gold Coast this week. Fleeing the cold, as usual. Few highlights here (more to come in a second post) 😊
June 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Been driving the campervan from Melbourne to the Gold Coast this week. Fleeing the cold, as usual. Few highlights here (more to come in a second post) 😊
Smiling pic from a library workshop I ran recently. 😊
June 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Smiling pic from a library workshop I ran recently. 😊
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This is mass murder and most Western governments are complicit
Gaza kitchens warn food running out after two-months Israeli blockade
Gaza kitchens warn food running out after two-months Israeli blockade
Many Palestinians depend on community kitchens, but one says they have only two weeks of supplies left.
www.bbc.com
May 2, 2025 at 5:03 AM
This is mass murder and most Western governments are complicit
Almost 200,000 Australians would be at risk of a nuclear accident if Peter Dutton’s proposed nuclear scheme goes ahead, according to new research. See the maps here: nuclearplume.au
NuclearPlume.au - Mapping the Fukushima radiation plume in aus
The seven sites on this map have been selected by the federal Coalition to house multiple nuclear power reactors.
nuclearplume.au
April 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Almost 200,000 Australians would be at risk of a nuclear accident if Peter Dutton’s proposed nuclear scheme goes ahead, according to new research. See the maps here: nuclearplume.au
Just three places left!
Creative Non Fiction has opened so many new doors for me over the past two decades. I love sharing this writing form with aspiring story-tellers. Why don't you join us for my next six week online short course? Begins April 28th - all welcome. www.sianprior.com/creative-non...
April 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Just three places left!
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Nine Publishing relies on freelancers to deliver quality journalism, but with a business model that relies on freelance rates going backwards in real terms, freelancers cannot continue to sustainably do their jobs.
SIGN AND SHARE THE PETITION NOW- www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...
SIGN AND SHARE THE PETITION NOW- www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...
April 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Nine Publishing relies on freelancers to deliver quality journalism, but with a business model that relies on freelance rates going backwards in real terms, freelancers cannot continue to sustainably do their jobs.
SIGN AND SHARE THE PETITION NOW- www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...
SIGN AND SHARE THE PETITION NOW- www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...
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There’s been so much moral panic about Chinese IP theft. Time to pay attention to the States. Great initiative from the @asauthors.bsky.social organising Oz writers to take action. If your work has been stolen, let the ASA know via the form below
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Australian authors and illustrators impacted by the LibGen database.
On 21 March 2025 The Atlantic published a search tool which allows authors to search for their books in LibGen, one of the datasets that has been used to train Meta's generative AI system. It is anoth...
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March 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
There’s been so much moral panic about Chinese IP theft. Time to pay attention to the States. Great initiative from the @asauthors.bsky.social organising Oz writers to take action. If your work has been stolen, let the ASA know via the form below
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Friends. There are an infinite number of AI-generated bullshit images out there in the social media landscape. Use your skeptical brains. Check. Check again. And again. When in doubt, check it out. Ask yourself - in whose interest is it that this image and its message are being promulgated online?
March 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Friends. There are an infinite number of AI-generated bullshit images out there in the social media landscape. Use your skeptical brains. Check. Check again. And again. When in doubt, check it out. Ask yourself - in whose interest is it that this image and its message are being promulgated online?
And don’t get me started on Brendan Nelson. What a cosy little cabal of war-fetishising money-grabbers
Kim Beazley. What a pathetic political disappointment he’s turned out to be. 😠 #FourCorners @abcnewsbot.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
And don’t get me started on Brendan Nelson. What a cosy little cabal of war-fetishising money-grabbers
Kim Beazley. What a pathetic political disappointment he’s turned out to be. 😠 #FourCorners @abcnewsbot.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Kim Beazley. What a pathetic political disappointment he’s turned out to be. 😠 #FourCorners @abcnewsbot.bsky.social
I wrote an essay for The Saturday Paper about reading the Coroner’s Report on our father’s death ❤️💔 www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/2025/03...
An email from the coroner
An accident on Victoria’s Surf Coast unleashes memories of the author’s father, drowned 60 years ago – and coincides with the arrival of an official account of his last moments.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
March 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I wrote an essay for The Saturday Paper about reading the Coroner’s Report on our father’s death ❤️💔 www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/2025/03...
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Morrison wouldn’t hold a hose and Dutton can’t fill a sandbag
March 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Morrison wouldn’t hold a hose and Dutton can’t fill a sandbag
NSW friends - I'm running a one day non fiction writing workshop in Sydney on May 9th - all welcome!
writingnsw.org.au/whats-on/cou...
writingnsw.org.au/whats-on/cou...
Writing Compelling True Stories - Writing NSW
This writing course, Writing Compelling True Stories with Sian Prior will be held at Writing NSW in Sydney, teaching skills for creative non-fiction.
writingnsw.org.au
March 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
NSW friends - I'm running a one day non fiction writing workshop in Sydney on May 9th - all welcome!
writingnsw.org.au/whats-on/cou...
writingnsw.org.au/whats-on/cou...
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“Australia does not have a gas shortage, we just have a small habit of allowing the Woodsides and the Santoses of the world to export it all overseas, and then we're left scraping the bottom of the barrel for domestic supply.” - Marine Conservation Society #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Regulator approvals exploratory gas wells near Victorian marine parks
A multinational petroleum giant has received approval to drill up to six exploratory gas wells in the Otway Basin, near biologically important areas for protected marine species.
www.abc.net.au
March 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
“Australia does not have a gas shortage, we just have a small habit of allowing the Woodsides and the Santoses of the world to export it all overseas, and then we're left scraping the bottom of the barrel for domestic supply.” - Marine Conservation Society #auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
If you were Zelensky would you trust POTUS to keep you safe when you visited the USA? Or would the 🎃 deliver you to Putin’s assassins?
February 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
If you were Zelensky would you trust POTUS to keep you safe when you visited the USA? Or would the 🎃 deliver you to Putin’s assassins?
Just rang to make an appt with my GP. Insisted I book a half hour appt - at least $170. If they’d let me book a quarter hour appt they still couldn’t tell me exactly how much it would cost -‘at least $100 but it could be more’. No wonder people are flooding the hospital emergency depts. 😡
February 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Just rang to make an appt with my GP. Insisted I book a half hour appt - at least $170. If they’d let me book a quarter hour appt they still couldn’t tell me exactly how much it would cost -‘at least $100 but it could be more’. No wonder people are flooding the hospital emergency depts. 😡
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Video snippet courtesy of Belfast legend David Holmes on Instagram...
February 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Video snippet courtesy of Belfast legend David Holmes on Instagram...
OMG Clive Palmer and his Trumpet of Patriots I can’t even 🤡🤡🤡🤡
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February 19, 2025 at 7:54 AM
OMG Clive Palmer and his Trumpet of Patriots I can’t even 🤡🤡🤡🤡