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Former ABC Russia corro. Author, OAM & 5 Walkley Awards. Co-Director, Centre for Media Transition, UTS Monica.attard @uts .edu.au

Sydney, Australia
Joined June 2011
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@AttardMon
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3 years
Having attended a fair few tennis matches in my time, I just cannot imagine booing anyone. What’s wrong with people?! It’s just so wrong
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4 years
Just saying - I think Australia is lucky to have Sally McManus. Sensible, calm, smart and compassionate. @QandA
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5 years
That cut of Waleed was devastating in its truth for me: we are 'tolerant' until those we are 'tolerating' raise their heads. Always so for indigenous Australians. Used to be same for us 'wogs'. #racism #AdamGoodes
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4 years
Justice McClelland: "When the respectable burghers of Hunters Hill are sitting eating their lunch on the grass at Kellys Bush, I wonder how many realise they have to thank a certain communist for the fact they are not sitting on concrete." RIP Jack Mundey
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3 years
What a great tweet!👇👇
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3 years
how it started: how it’s going:
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5 years
Lest we forget.
@DrCraigEmerson
Craig Emerson
5 years
This was it: the day in early-2014 when the Liberal Party front bench celebrated the removal of the Gillard Labor Government’s carbon price - the only policy that has actually reduced Australia’s carbon emissions.
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11 months
How depressing is that? Australia says no to a perfectly reasonable, extraordinarily humble request for recognition. I hope Marcia Langton is wrong - and reconciliation isn’t dead.
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5 years
The toilet paper aisle at my local supermarket has bodyguards! #innerwestSydney
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4 years
This thread is gold. Trump in full on delusional mode... @sarahcpr please help!
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Aaron Rupar
4 years
Trump thinks he can make laws by executive order (he can't)
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5 years
@thymetikon That’s a massive research failure.
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6 years
RIP Liz. Brilliant journalist, wonderful woman. Thank you for passing Media Watch on to me.
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2 years
How good is that decision to close the @abcnews bureau in Moscow looking? 🤫
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9 months
Given the ABC would have/should have been aware of Antoinette's journalism on the issue and her online activism, seems very strange they're making her pay the price for having a view which she didn't express on air.
@antoinette_news
Antoinette Lattouf
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I am very disappointed by the ABC’s decision today.
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5 years
Scott Morrison's political ad is a bizarre act of self-love as firefighters battle to save Australia. And ⁦ @murpharoo ⁩ says what needs to be said. Hope the PM reads this one. ⁦ @ScottMorrisonMP
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7 years
@TurnbullMalcolm Geez Malcolm! Fitzgerald? Moonlight state? Brown paper bags? Gerrymanders? Arresting protesters? Reckon RIP Lady Flo would’ve been enuf
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4 years
RIP Paul Murphy - beautiful man, wonderful broadcaster and one of the very best interviewers Australian journalism has ever produced. A mentor and friend. So sad.
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4 years
Must admit to being staggered by the number of people here, including journalists, saying Trumps Covid diagnosis is fake. 😳
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1 year
What a great day for Australian public interest journalism Congratulations Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters, who has spent more than is reasonable for any human being in courts defending the right to speak the truth.
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3 years
Wow @annabelcrabb Ms Represented is absolutely sensational..sure hope education depts around the country are watching. Show our kids.
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4 years
As Rupert Murdoch works to dismantle the internet, why are other media outlets helping him?
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5 years
It's really something when the Editorial Board of the @nytimes comes out so strongly for (or against) a world leader. New Zealands justly gets the tick of approval: Via @_JustinStevens_
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4 years
@samanthamaiden @ljayes @3AWNeilMitchell Exactly. No one has ever put the allegations to him because they were never permitted the opportunity.
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6 years
Read this thread. Worth it
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Matthias Bergmann, Kanzlei Kind & Recht
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My granddad was an avid nazi until his death in the early 90s. He was a small town banker, volunteered in 40 and became a staff sergeant in the Wehrmacht. He was leading a so called "anti partisan" unit at the Eastern Front, participated in the capture of Kiew.
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3 years
Four hours of sleep here, so apologies - but as Ukraine bleeds, Russians grieve. I know a lot of Russians - only a handful have no Ukrainian blood. Unspeakably horrific action.
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5 years
@ScottMorrisonMP Maybe you could give the ABC a little (big) $$ boost given the role its played in keeping the fire impacted communities informed and safe.
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3 years
@Nat_Vasilyeva @leonidragozin This is the single greatest tragedy for Russia. 30 years lost in a tsunami of shame.
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6 years
What the hell is this? This must be what fear looks like.
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5 years
@sunriseon7 @kochie_online @PaulineHansonOz Good effort from Koch but seriously - just don’t play her game. It’s dangerous. If she’s to blame, so are you.
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4 years
Play over and over and over again.
@islaanne1
islaanne🌛
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Got this update from my wee granny😢 93 and still going strong ❤️
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6 years
The way it was. May those times be forever dead. So so sad.
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4 years
This is wonderful. I’m assuming Elaine was loved.
@Kate_McClymont
Kate McClymont
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I am loving this funeral notice in the @smh
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5 months
Nine reporting the 38 year old Mother of the 9 month old baby who was also stabbed has died. This is too appallingly tragic to comprehend
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6 years
@Kate_McClymont @neighbour_s @4corners @abcnews Might be nice for people to remember Guthrie is actually a human being. Might be feeling rather low and bruised.
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4 years
I think the world needs a Jonathan Swan interview with The Donald... replete with graphs on pieces of paper showing him the voting figures as well as court results.
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4 years
When cancer returns in times of pandemic Good luck for next week. Your readers will be thinking of you, I'm sure. This is super brave writing, @JacktheInsider
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10 months
Truly unbearable.
@CBSNews
CBS News
10 months
A pair of siblings in Gaza City found their brother on Monday while searching for family members among the injured at the Bureij Refugee Camp. Many came to the camp following Israeli airstrikes nearby.
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4 years
'No one stopped to think for a second, is she safe going home with this person?' Such a sad story and raises lots of questions for news media to confront about how it 'collectively' deals with this level of obvious abuse.
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5 years
#MyMum left her war torn homeland - Malta - to raise a family and create a new life. Best mum ever. Nurturing, brave, unstintingly protective and proud as punch of both her girls. She worked long and hard to make sure we got what she didn’t get.
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7 months
Had forgotten this little vignette.
@markhumphries
Mark Humphries
4 years
Malcolm Turnbull slams The Australian's Paul Kelly over News Corp's position on climate change.
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2 years
Some people aren’t showing up in my feed anymore. Need to go searching for them. What’s going on? Anyone else having this problem?
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3 years
She’s been an awesome anchor for @abc730 - solid, informed, steady and always willing to challenge. Good on you @leighsales for 12 great years and thanks.
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7 years
Did he say "have a good time everybody!"????
@ChelseaClinton
Chelsea Clinton
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People lost their lives, loved ones, homes, beloved pets. Many thousands of people face uncertain futures. Our President on #Harvey :
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6 years
An honorary doctorate for Ross Gittins: How fantastic!!!
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3 years
Popped into the Kokk/Kyg doubles match and the crowd behaviour made it unwatchable. What a disgrace. So something @TennisAustralia @AustralianOpen - easy to toss out the tossers.
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4 years
Someone just sent me this from Moscow
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5 years
So sad for @barriecassidy tonight. You were stoic on ABC 24 talking about #Hawkie
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4 years
👇👇 incredible piece of live reporting from Minneapolis
@9NewsAUS
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#BREAKING : A young black man has been stabbed at the violent riots unfolding in Minneapolis. Police reinforcements have arrived to control massive crowds, firing stun guns and tear gas at protesters. @TimArvier9 #9News
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6 years
So now to the rest of the ABC board - what did you know and what did you do or say about it??
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5 years
@kelloveslife @thymetikon Totally. Very surprising because American publishers are very nickety pickety with fact checking.
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1 year
Dear @Qantas - I’m flying with you next week. Do you think you could iron out all your problems by then? I’d love an on time flight, with great food and service on board, and for my luggage to be at the other end when I get there. Thanks.
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8 months
Pretty much all the issues around taking Antoinette Lattouf off air, Nour Haydar’s resignation and general unease at ABC raised here - the ABC’s social media policy which only works for some, is about to get a work out. Interesting.
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5 months
Hope everyone intends to be careful with what they tweet about witnesses and lawyers when court resumes at 2.15 in sydney. Or judge Lee might be tempted to shut down the live telecast.
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6 years
Ok I’m in tears @AustralianStory - Tim Fisher and his gorgeous son and his amazing wife. A touching show.
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3 years
She’s crying. All of australia crying i reckon
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1 year
RIP Bruce Haigh. Great human being. A fighter of injustice to the end I bet Bong is having a drink for you, somewhere.
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3 years
Don’t Look Up - Netflix - so worth watching
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4 years
Great to see @4corners collaborating with JJJ. Important show on online dating.
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5 years
Just btw, in Moscow and everyone I speak to asks about the bushfires, alarmed, sad, angry and sure the tragedy will trigger global change. #interesting
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4 years
If you read nothing else today, read this from @BehrouzBoochani now happily living in NZ after being detained in Australia for years. The White Australia mentality that’s refuses you die.
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4 years
She strikes again with deadly accuracy. 👇👇
@sarahcpr
Sarah Cooper
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How to more cases than anybody in the world
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5 years
That I must say was the most gut wrenching #4corners I’ve seen. Thank you @neighbour_s and all for putting that in front of our eyes so comprehensively. You can’t unsee any of that.
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7 years
@couriermail What a vile human being he was. Don't usually speak ill of the dead but this is too much.
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5 years
Is there a finer foreign correspondent I ask? Reckon no.
@StephenMcDonell
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The pause in hostilities between #HongKong ’s militant activists and the police is now well and truly over. #China
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2 years
Wordle 598 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 OMG!!!!
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5 years
36,000 fireworks worth $6m! Even with mitigating factors to allow the exemption from total fire ban, there’s something called common decency.
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5 years
Yep. My nephew is in Majors Creek near Braidwood. All roads in/out been closed for weeks, businesses shut down. Then Bilpin - the fruit bowl burnt out. Repeat 100’s of times over across the country. Wake up Canberra.
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4 years
Really not sure Arthur Sinodinos should have agreed to that interview on @InsidersABC
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7 months
Never gets old 👇👇👇
@joncoopertweets
Jon Cooper 🇺🇸
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Posting this today because it’s my birthday and this video makes me laugh. 🥳😂😁
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4 years
Great news for public interest journalism and @SteveCannane 👇👇
@TonyOrtega94
Tony Ortega
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In a thorough thrashing, the Australian federal court dismissed a case of defamation brought against journalist Steve Cannane and his book about #Scientology in Australia, 'Fair Game.' We have a statement from Steve and the full 273-page (!) ruling.
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At least the ratings will be through the roof tonight for @4corners ... but that was some grilling in Senate Estimates. #cannotwait
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Best email ever today. From Telstra. NBN roll out to my area being delayed. YAY!!!!!
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No!! News Corp to suspend printing 60 community papers. Thats devestating.
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6 years
This is a very big number - $100m for a new journalism institute! In Australia!!! Well done Judith Neilson and here's hoping the Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism & Ideas will make a difference.
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3 years
Can we please, please not use "Freedom Day". Its as awful as "You've got this". Don't @ me.
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2 years
@ACurrentAffair9 @PatsKarvelas Looking forward to this.. Grimshaw in a hard hitting interview is truly something to behold.
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@maxwalden_ @NourHaydar Sad to read this news - so hot on the heels of Antoinette’s removal. Two fewer employees of diverse background isn’t good for the main public broadcaster.
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10 months
Gotta love the NSW Government
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8 months
Sad news to wake up to. RIP John Pilger - no one can ever say you didn’t try to make the world a better place.
@johnpilger
John Pilger
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It is with great sadness the family of John Pilger announce he died yesterday 30 December 2023 in London aged 84. His journalism and documentaries were celebrated around the world, but to his family he was simply the most amazing and loved Dad, Grandad and partner. Rest In Peace.
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2 years
@SharnelleVella @7NewsMelbourne Seriously? Nothing better to investigate? #giveitabreak
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4 years
OMG! Made my day!
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8 months
Signing off for the year. HNY to all. May there be peace in Gaza, Israel, Ukraine and Russia in 2024.
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4 years
This 👇👇is exactly right. Learning how to think and adapt and create are the most useful of skills
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1 year
Wagner in Lipitsk region now. 5 hours and 44 minutes to Moscow.
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4 years
Wow. Failure upon failure.
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