Sitting next to a young guy on Canberra to Syd train who is celebrating his first day out of jail after 2 years inside. He’s got no phone, no money but lots of excitement about taking his first swim in the ocean in a couple of years
while Australians love to remind Americans that our gun control measures are way ahead of theirs, we should also tell them that we were way ahead of them when it came to locking up children in detention
those that work in supermarkets are often young and underpaid. but they are the ones absorbing the community's fear, panic, anxiety and occasionally rage.
we gotta treat these people well. they're dealing w a lot right now
and the other thing this international woman is doing -- tonight watching the finest reporter of her generation
@Milliganreports
on
@4corners
tonight telling the truth to power. Bravo Lou.
Everyone, i have some excellent news! My laptop found safe & sound in Bendigo y/day !! A guy found it on the ground! Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.
OH--Funny exchange just now in cafe . Backpacker working on her laptop turned to guy at next table and asked if he had an "outlet" and he thought about it for a minute and said "kickboxing". And she looked really confused and said "for my laptop"😹
The world is divided into 2: those that charge their phones overnight and those that launch into each new day w a kind of fearful optimism on 2 percent battery
feeling v BLESSED !!!!!!!
My laptop is still missing but my novel in progress (35,000 words so far) has been FOUND IN THE CLOUD!!!!
the CLOUD IS THE BEST
Thanks again to
@russellcrowe
& all the twitter crew who sent me their best wishes and prayers.
It definitely helped
Just spoke to a Sydney removalist who has been flat chat all morning moving eastern suburbs people’s things into storage as they hastily move to their parents places in the Northern beaches and pursued affected LGAs
Omg this is the most extraordinary footage — our prime minister run out of town by a righteously angry woman w a GOAT, to the background sledge of “okay boomer”
Was in a bookshop just now and a guy picked up my book and put it back down . I said to him “it’s good ! You should buy it!” He said “did you read it?” I said “I wrote it!” He then just nodded, looked vaguely frightened and moved away from the pile 😵💫😂
After Celeste Barber’s epic $12.5m and rising fundraising effort so far to raise $$ for incinerated Australia, I’m far less inclined to diss Instagrammers
Maybe these fires will be Australia’s Sandy Hook/Parkland moment. We urge the government to “Do Something!” and if they don’t create a meaningful climate policy after this epic, destructive summer - they probably never will.
some exciting news....(BRAGGING, NOT HUMBLE) Reasons Not to Worry has only been in the world a matter of days - and it has sold out its first print run and in the non-fiction Top 10. Thanks for reading it and supporting !!!!! I;m STOIC-K-ED
Anna wintour in AO speech slamming tennis legend Margaret court for her views on same sex marriage & says she's alarmed Australian govt dog whistling on LGBT kids in schools
"Prayer is my response". Scott Morrison says he's praying for Alek Sigley, a Perth man missing in North Korea, as authorities struggle to ascertain new information into his disappearance
#auspol
just filed my last column for three months. (crying hard). I'm taking a break so i can close the 765,000 tabs i have open. but see you all on the other side.
i was in my normal work clothes today - going to work - when a woman in a hospital gown and pajamas asked me to help her carry something to her car. She said she appraached me because i looked friendly and was "also wearing pajamas" 😭
I am not on tv today as I found out when I arrived at the channel 10 studios w good hair & makeup and demanded cab charges and the producer is like - who are you? - and it turns out I’m a week early 😞⚰️😒
Have worked with Lou Milligan since we studied law together at Monash in the 1990s. Her work habits and her work have been CONSISTENTLY BRILLIANT for the almost 30 yrs i;ve known her
The
@australian
editorial gets down very low today: "Many senior people at The Australian know well the work, the habits and the hubris of Sally Neighbour and Louise Milligan."
not watching the Cup - but - as is my guilty pleasure -- will probably surf some websites around 6pm to look at pictures of really drunk racegoers getting stuck in wheelie bins or falling over or drunkenly smashing a pie
Found a terrible diary from when I was 22. Burning it. Why is youth so glamourised when mine consisted of selling pies at the MCG, smoking Winnie blues, playing Daytona, writing terrible poetry about the No.8 tram, being a groupie to bands that had one song on Triple J ?
Listening to
@DanielAndrewsMP
press conference with a teen in the car that we are opening up! She’s crying. I’m tooting. Folks are flashing lights and hollering. The
#Rosebud
school carpark pickup is going off. Opening joy!
#victorialockdown
Saw this speech in a newsroom...
Later that night in the airport , groups of women at the baggage carousel talking of it, thrilled at its brilliance
Julia Gillard's misogyny speech voted 'most unforgettable' moment in Australian TV history
excited to return to Guardian Australia in the next week or so after extended leave. working on a fabulous new column about not being able to get the microwave door open, and my food being trapped inside.
A lot of people suggest I do my daily iso walk while listening to Leonard Cohen!! This is like suggesting that someone take a handful of sleeping pills w their whiskey after they’ve had some heroin
Jacob Chansley, AKA Jake Angeli, Arizona man makes first court appearance in for charges related to storming the U.S. Capitol. His mom says he hasn’t eaten since Friday because the detention facility won’t feed him all organic food.
@abc15
lol - someone just reviewed my house on airbnb "i have a greater appreciation now for how miner's lived during the Gold Rush."
I was more going for country boho vibe - not 19thC pit worker accomodation.... 😂
each day in lockdown doing a long walk and listening to the major works of a famous musician that i never really got into but is canon... today Prince. Tomorrow Fiona apple. Wednesday Dylan. Any other suggestions?
one thing I'm wondering...... will the pandemic encourage more people to move to regional areas if they can work from home? Last couple of months have shown that if you have good internet, and can work from anywhere - you can avoid being hostage to a big Sydney mortgage/rent
Oh lol !!! Sitting next to high profile news limited journo at Brisbane airport (she doesn't know me) who is talking really loudly to her newsroom about a hot story & trying to break into someone's Facebook account
Update on my missing, and much missed laptop — Melb airport just called and they haven’t found it yet - but they said things turn up a few days later and that they are reviewing CCTV. Thank you
@russellcrowe
and
@Melair
🤞🏻
After 5 years as a super commuter - today i signed a lease in Syd . I look forward to locking down in this beautiful city and using the time inside to contemplate life . I love you all 🙏🙏🙏
My diary today is a reflective piece about being on Newstart
I was poor while all of my friends were rich – the hardest part was the lack of freedom | Brigid Delaney
Don’t understand what pandemic doing to attention spans. For some reason I can consume 12658 pieces of analysis and news about the virus but it’s taken 6 weeks to read 100 pages of a short novel
Laptop update / Melb airport lost property not answering phones yet - but
@russellcrowe
is offering a reward and
@dannolan
is helping me retrieve missing files 🙏
with the run on supermarkets - can I recommend fasting? For my book Wellmania - I didn't eat anything for 2 weeks - just Chinese herbs. I was very weak & I couldn't;t get out of bed for a week, had strange dreams, lost 15kg. week 2 I felt invincible. do not take my health advice
My other
#authorforfireys
offer: I will mentor you in an Uber pool (Syd/Melb)- dropping you off at 3 locations of your/my choice for snacks / drinks / chat & then I will write a Diary about you for The Guardian
Ping
@mrbenjaminlaw
actually my favourite bus to work story..... i was late for work but also had to put out a stinking bag of garbage. The bus pulled up outside my house - I panicked and jumped on - but carrying an oozing, large bag of garbage that i then took w me all the way into the city
the messages i'm getting in response to my piece are making me cry 😰
no one gets out alive
&
no one gets through this life without a big measure of grief
Looking after 4 kids (aged 3-14) for the next couple of nights while their parents have a romantic getaway. Trying to work out my persona : strict , authoritarian type who insists on early bedtimes or good time pal who lets them stay up all night ?
i'm a non-british person watching Louis Theroux's Savile doco (the one after savile was publically disgraced) but still don't understand how such a weird, frightening-looking, bleak man (savile, not theroux) became a popular childrens' entertainer in the first place
the meghan/harry story is essentially a corrective to all the princess fairy tales little girls are told. in reality - it is the commoner who saves the prince & takes him away from his castle to the safety of a faraway farm.
on Friday I wrote a piece in the guardian about CareerSeekers, a group who helps asylum seekers get white collar jobs . Over weekend 50 more companies have asked to be involved . It's good to c Not everyone is a heartless bastard!
My clever friend wrote this book and it’s been turned into a Netflix series, currently the 4th most popular Netflix show in the UK! Well done
@BrigidWD
⭐️
feelings right now... its a tight rope keeping yourself informed about our degraded parliamentary culture - but also a challenge to not end each day feeling like you've been rolled in sewage
#auspol
Lol ... this mega hot guy just approached me in a Byron cafe with a folded napkin. Could it be his number?? No, I had beetroot juice all over my mouth and he was discreetly telling me to wipe my
face ❤️❤️😭
Hi
@BehrouzBoochani
— great to see your book out the front at Rome airport -bringing the message of Australia’s evil immigration detention system to the world