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Another way too long post about the season of surprises during my very quick trip back to Australia. I'm exhausted. Keeping secrets is hard work! rick-morton.ghost.io/surprise-so-...
Surprise So Nice We Did It Twice
The Morton family has never really been good at surprises.
To be surprised meant being the recipient of unscheduled bad news. To wit: a part on the car that none of us previously knew existed is brok...
rick-morton.ghost.io
January 4, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Another way too long post about the season of surprises during my very quick trip back to Australia. I'm exhausted. Keeping secrets is hard work! rick-morton.ghost.io/surprise-so-...
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what the fuck (copy and paste)
January 3, 2026 at 9:10 AM
what the fuck (copy and paste)
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Taken out by the mean streets of Montmartre, a weekend away in the French countryside becomes a spiritual and physical battle for survival. My newsletter update: rick-morton.ghost.io/no-genou-is-...
No Genou is Bad News
This horror story begins with a wandering brass band; my sirens.
I will follow a brass band anywhere. There is just something about the way a tuba cuts a shape on the horizon – so brash, so untoward ...
rick-morton.ghost.io
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Taken out by the mean streets of Montmartre, a weekend away in the French countryside becomes a spiritual and physical battle for survival. My newsletter update: rick-morton.ghost.io/no-genou-is-...
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I have been writing my latest newsletter update for a week and trying to get it finished. It is sprawling, perhaps even unreadable, but I will have it ready by tomorrow morning AEDT. If you want to subscribe, it's free! rick-morton.ghost.io
Nervous Laughter
Life, writing and other tragedies
rick-morton.ghost.io
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I have been writing my latest newsletter update for a week and trying to get it finished. It is sprawling, perhaps even unreadable, but I will have it ready by tomorrow morning AEDT. If you want to subscribe, it's free! rick-morton.ghost.io
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Well fuck
Announcing the shortlisted finalists for the Walkley Book Award, supported by Bookoccino: Joe Aston, (Simon & Schuster); Rick Morton, (HarperCollins Publishers); Clare Wright, (Text Publishing)
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Well fuck
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The dishonesty around the use of Robodebt in prosecuting the government’s Freedom of Information secrecy drive is galling in the extreme. I set out some facts that deflate the specious claims being used as cover. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
‘Absurdist leaps of logic’: Robodebt misused in FOI reforms
I am furious. Angry, certainly, about the federal government’s proposed freedom of information laws, which mock the very idea of transparency, but seething especially about the justification for them,...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
October 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The dishonesty around the use of Robodebt in prosecuting the government’s Freedom of Information secrecy drive is galling in the extreme. I set out some facts that deflate the specious claims being used as cover. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
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Re-sharing this just for the pullquote, waking up in Paris early mornings and doing five interviews in a row before coffee leads to even less of a filter than usual
September 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Re-sharing this just for the pullquote, waking up in Paris early mornings and doing five interviews in a row before coffee leads to even less of a filter than usual
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What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad. Now it's won him $80k
Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.
www.abc.net.au
September 29, 2025 at 10:25 AM
What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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It's only autism if it comes from the Tylenol region of France otherwise it's just sparkling persuadoscience
September 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It's only autism if it comes from the Tylenol region of France otherwise it's just sparkling persuadoscience
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Absolutely fighting for my life outside a primary school in Paris trying to return a ball to the kids who kicked it over the Jurassic Park sized playground fence. Also: some shortlist admin and world is fuky. My newsletter this week. Sign up, si tu aimes. rick-morton.ghost.io/a-gladiator-...
A Gladiator Finds His Arena
The ball soared over the towering fence and landed right in front of me as I walked down a pedestrian only cobblestone street in Abbesses.
It was the size of a football (soccer, if you're basic) but ...
rick-morton.ghost.io
September 15, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Absolutely fighting for my life outside a primary school in Paris trying to return a ball to the kids who kicked it over the Jurassic Park sized playground fence. Also: some shortlist admin and world is fuky. My newsletter this week. Sign up, si tu aimes. rick-morton.ghost.io/a-gladiator-...
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The Thai cover band you didn't know you needed in your life.
Crank it! 😀 🎸
Crank it! 😀 🎸
August 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The Thai cover band you didn't know you needed in your life.
Crank it! 😀 🎸
Crank it! 😀 🎸
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I have finally encountered the French bureaucracy so many warned me about. 'It was like asking for directions on a hike and then having someone throw a compass into a ravine to help.' Read and subscribe to support my translation fees to the French Govt: rick-morton.ghost.io/blesse-this-...
Blessé this Messé
I was going to have some fun with the newsletter this week until the French authorities – who, for official purposes, I love and adore – sprung the steel trap of bureaucracy on my bliss and visited up...
rick-morton.ghost.io
August 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I have finally encountered the French bureaucracy so many warned me about. 'It was like asking for directions on a hike and then having someone throw a compass into a ravine to help.' Read and subscribe to support my translation fees to the French Govt: rick-morton.ghost.io/blesse-this-...
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Rick Morton's reports of Paris gallivanting are such fun to read, plus he's an actual journalist consistently scooping the big media sites. The man's a package with a bow on it. Tres chic. rick-morton.ghost.io
Nervous Laughter
Life, writing and other tragedies
rick-morton.ghost.io
July 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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In which I meet Toula the rescue dog from Santorini living in Switzerland who had just arrived in Paris by train for a book launch. On learning to live a little again, piece by piece and kind person by kind person. My newsletter: rick-morton.ghost.io/her-name-was...
Her Name Was Toula
At the book launch in the Oberkampf district of Paris last Tuesday night I met an incredibly beautiful dog named Toula who was adopted as a rescue from the Greek Island of Santorini by a couple who li...
rick-morton.ghost.io
June 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
In which I meet Toula the rescue dog from Santorini living in Switzerland who had just arrived in Paris by train for a book launch. On learning to live a little again, piece by piece and kind person by kind person. My newsletter: rick-morton.ghost.io/her-name-was...
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Published my first big monster read on Paris and the delight of wandering through this city in summer... on a winter Monday morning Aus time because I've impeccable timing. Forgive me, we do manage to have some fun on my newsletter. You can sign up free or paid. rick-morton.ghost.io/and-so-to-pa...
And So, To Paris
There was a moment, as my flight landed at Charles De Gaulle airport in the very early hours of Tuesday morning local time, when I believed fully that I had made a mistake.
I was going to have to spe...
rick-morton.ghost.io
June 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Published my first big monster read on Paris and the delight of wandering through this city in summer... on a winter Monday morning Aus time because I've impeccable timing. Forgive me, we do manage to have some fun on my newsletter. You can sign up free or paid. rick-morton.ghost.io/and-so-to-pa...
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IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
May 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
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A new pope, a regurgitated rat and all the symbolism your money can buy at the federal election. I'm newsletterin' over at my new home on Ghost and having more fun than usual, it must be said. Subscribe if you like. rick-morton.ghost.io/platos-concl...
Plato's Conclave
The world learned a new Pope had been elected seconds after a seagull regurgitated part of a Vatican street rat for its chick, white smoke curling through the scene like the mist that conceals the org...
rick-morton.ghost.io
May 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
A new pope, a regurgitated rat and all the symbolism your money can buy at the federal election. I'm newsletterin' over at my new home on Ghost and having more fun than usual, it must be said. Subscribe if you like. rick-morton.ghost.io/platos-concl...
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Brian Cox ~ The purpose of life?
May 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Brian Cox ~ The purpose of life?
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Out of money and looking for revenue, BoM executive planned to start charging for some raw climate data until its people sounded the alarm. Meanwhile, the Australian Climate Service it essentially runs is languishing. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...
Exclusive: BoM planned to charge for climate data
The Bureau of Meteorology made plans to charge for access to critical climate data but shelved the plan following concerns from scientists.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
April 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Out of money and looking for revenue, BoM executive planned to start charging for some raw climate data until its people sounded the alarm. Meanwhile, the Australian Climate Service it essentially runs is languishing. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...
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PM Albanese will inject a further $1 billion for mental health into Labor’s re-election campaign.
New funding will be directed into Medicare mental health centres, headspace clinics & youth specialist care centres, which will offer Australians free access to psychologists or psychiatrists.
#auspol
New funding will be directed into Medicare mental health centres, headspace clinics & youth specialist care centres, which will offer Australians free access to psychologists or psychiatrists.
#auspol
Albanese raises stakes on mental health with $1b pledge
The PM’s move will give him a rebuttal to Peter Dutton’s $900 million mental health funding ahead of a leaders’ debate.
www.smh.com.au
April 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
PM Albanese will inject a further $1 billion for mental health into Labor’s re-election campaign.
New funding will be directed into Medicare mental health centres, headspace clinics & youth specialist care centres, which will offer Australians free access to psychologists or psychiatrists.
#auspol
New funding will be directed into Medicare mental health centres, headspace clinics & youth specialist care centres, which will offer Australians free access to psychologists or psychiatrists.
#auspol
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Dutton: "We no longer want to cut the public service."
April 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Dutton: "We no longer want to cut the public service."
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lol Creative Australia looking to hire an expert workplace relations consultant for its 'fair, safe and respectful' Creative Workplaces project. Person must have knowledge relating to 'discrimination, harassment and bullying'.
April 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
lol Creative Australia looking to hire an expert workplace relations consultant for its 'fair, safe and respectful' Creative Workplaces project. Person must have knowledge relating to 'discrimination, harassment and bullying'.
The effects of Trump-style Dutton/liberal party slagging off federal staff laid out in forensic detail. Vote left.
Cyclone Alfred and the real cost of Dutton’s public service cuts www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Cyclone Alfred and the real cost of Dutton’s public service cuts www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Cyclone Alfred and the real cost of Dutton’s public service cuts
The involvement of the public service in the aftermath of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred underscores the reality of the Coalition’s promise to cut 36,000 people from government departments.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
March 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
The effects of Trump-style Dutton/liberal party slagging off federal staff laid out in forensic detail. Vote left.
Cyclone Alfred and the real cost of Dutton’s public service cuts www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Cyclone Alfred and the real cost of Dutton’s public service cuts www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au