Miriam Cosic
@miriamcosic
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Journalist. Political philosophy, globalisation, human rights, war. Surveillance/privacy. Press freedom. Climate. Unions. Art. Music. Botany. Retweet = FYI
On Gadigal land
Joined August 2014
Every so often I re-read this from 2019 to remind myself what I've read and what I know. It still makes terrifyingly pertinent points . Exhortations to the Resistance: Miriam Cosic on democracies in decline.#politics.
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So the Assistant Minister for Women, Amanda Stoker, promoted her views on restricting abortion to a pro-life rally yesterday. The Assistant Minister for Women … .@abcnews.
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People who don't approve of Scott Morrison should stop using his nickname, Scomo, on social media and in real life. He pushed that nickname as part of his true-blue ordinary-guy PR persona. Keep it formal. Keep it distant. Keep it disapproving. #auspol.
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FFS, everyone from John Howard to Adam Bandt has said "so what" about Albanese's inability to come up with those figures on the spot. And ABC News Radio is still leading with it. @abcnews #auspol #ausecon #elections.
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It's staggering how little @abcnews gives us from Indonesia. 284.6 million people right on our doorstep and silence. Until today, when we hear they've joined BRICS and Russia and China are involved. That must be important .
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God, Australia has 20% of the world’s poker machines, half of those in NSW alone ….@RadioNational.
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Also why ABC news refers to Allegra Spender's mother, the late Carla Zampatti, in background but not to her father, John Spender, MP under Peacock & Howard, or her grandfather, Sir Percy Spender, minister under Menzies & Fadden & President of the Int'l Court of Justice. #auspol.
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God I hate the use of the commercial US phrase "Black Friday" here in Australia, where it commemorates one of the worst bushfires in our history . 🔥. But such is the price of our rapturous embrace of American cultural imperialism, I suppose.
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I still don't understand how an elected Member of Parliament can sue for defamation in a liberal democracy when a member of the public says something about them they don't like . #auspol.
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If anyone deserved a double-headed Walkley win, The Saturday Paper’s Rick Morton did. One for Specialist and Beat Reporting. The other in the inaugural category, Explanatory Journalism. Inaugural? He practically invented the form.@SatPaper @SquigglyRick .#journalism #Walkleys
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Craig Foster is an extraordinary man. I don't think I've heard anyone explain the moral imperative for supporting the Palestinians so well, even while respecting those who disagree with him. Craig Foster quits Republican movement over Israel-Gaza split .
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And now what’s going on? We have one ABC journalist (Joe O’Brien) interviewing another (Stan Grant) who is neither an academic expert nor there on the ground ….
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Why would a man who ran his company into collapse, leaving 800 workers unpaid amid debts of ~$300 million, be allowed anywhere near the govt of this country, let alone be preferenced ahead of legitimate parties?.@abcnews #auspol #Liberals #ClivePalmer .
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Why tf is Fact Check ending now? Just as misinformation is reaching its brazen highest point so far? .#ABC #journalism. Fact Check signs off today after 11 years at the ABC. Here's our guide to being your own fact checker
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Dear @abcnews and current affairs,. Could you please not make "jab" your official word for injection, vaccination, innoculation? It's one thing to use it for a bit of variety, another to talk as though you're a talking Herald-Sun headline. best,.Miriam. Journalist, former editor.
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Just in case Kamala Harris is elected the next leader of the Free World, could our @abcnews radio announcers please learn to pronounce her name correctly?.
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Hey Bevan, you know NSW rail workers were at work this morning and ready to roll, right?.#nswpol #railstrike.
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When did we become a stupid country run by third-rate intellects who don't recognise a citizen's right to make a minor historical point in a private tweet? .@yassmin_a run out of the country for a pov on history.@mcintinhos sacked on PM's intervention for a pov on history.etc.
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Graduated BA, LLB, given the Sir Ronald Wilson Prize for Academic Achievement for combining distinguished academic performance with character, leadership, all-round contribution to the life of the university. And elected president of the student union. Not well-liked?.#auspol.
Political editor @aclennell has revealed he knew Greens leader Adam Bandt from their "uni days," saying Mr Bandt was not well liked on university campus for his left-leaning views. #Credlin.
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It's bad enough our language is rapidly turning American, but we're invoking the American Constitution in headlines about Australian court cases now?.#culturalimperialism
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A flamenco class in China. This little girl will be running the world one day .
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Wait. Roman Quaedvlieg is an unreliable witness because he was sacked for getting his girlfriend a job. But Barnaby Joyce, who got his several, is the new PM's envoy from God? @RNBreakfast #auspol.
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Remember when ABC radio was so well funded and so well staffed with serious journos that AM, The World Today and PM were not only longer but could be relied upon to intersect and signpost the day with breaking news? So many stories have been on repeat since 7.10 a.m. today.
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Sydney hospitals are under pressure with more than 1,000 health workers in isolation after exposure. “Non-essential”procedures are being shut down: breast screening will stop on Friday. @abcnews #NSW #COVID #healthcare.
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Govt's fucked, banking system's fucked, we're facing catastrophic drought/ fire season with no global warming plan, we're illegally keeping '000s of people in off-shore detention, our superpower ally is run by President who is barking mad. And Peter Dutton is looming. #auspol.
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What I don't get about the PVO debacle (and I've defended him in the past) is how neither a journalist/professor, who should be interested in serious discourse, nor the Inquirer editor on the Oz, saw the importance of him recusing himself from comment here. #auspol #journalism.
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Wait, Australia's former deputy chief medical officer insults his professional association, the AMA, just as decent people are trying to counteract ubiquitous medical misinformation in the midst of a pandemic?
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Seriously? The Sydney campus of New York University - which has a revenue of AUD16.5 billion - has just been given a JobKeeper subsidy while no Australia university has qualified . #auspol #ausecon #JobKeeper #universities.
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JFC, listening to Trump tell Milwaukee about his escape from death and the "grace of Almighty God". The holy voice. The crowd's response, "Fight, fight fight" in unison. And now, we're talking money. Please, America, don't inflict this upon the world for the next four years.
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Thread. And how can a man whose company was fined $10m for “willful & repeated violations" of US law be #PEOTUS a year later? #USPolitics
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Seriously? Radio National has Barnaby Joyce's remarks about Rudd being unable to remain ambassador to the US in its 8.00 a.m. news headlines?.
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Why tf am I listening to a long slab of Tony Abbot’s speech in London slamming the Andrews govt and giving his opinion on how to handle the pandemic, @ABCNewsRadio? Who cares what he thinks any more?.
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NSW judge and war crimes investigator, Paul Brereton, will become the founding boss of Australia’s new National Anti-Corruption Commission in the middle of the year. AG Mark Dreyfus recommended (him) to the role after a merit-based selection process.
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I've taken to listening to @DanielAndrewsMP daily presser, not just as a journalist, but for the morale boost of hearing a politician speaking with sincerity and showing leadership. And that goes for @JennyMikakos' briefings that follow.#vicpol #coronivirus #justwearabloodymask.
Dan Andrews' presser has been banished to the ABC's YouTube channel, since the PM will be talking about very little at the same time. Can't these people coordinate their press conferences? So much for all being in it together.#vicpol #coronvairus.
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Ireland’s gone from the lowest Covid-19 cases in Europe to crisis point in just six weeks. Record thousands overnight and ICUs reaching capacity. Bad decision to throw open bars and restaurants, against medical advice, in December . 😞 .@abcnews #Ireland #coronavirus.
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“To me, this shows you how serious she is. The commissioner is nailing down every last element of this inquiry.”. Exclusive: Robo-debt findings delayed to allow NACC referrals .- by @SquigglyRick.#auspol #RoboDebt .via @SatPaper.
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Seriously? The Crown report vindicated a seven-year-old 4 Corners report about the company's connections with crime syndicates? And where were the regulators and the AFP in the meantime?.@abcnews #CrownCasino.
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What a lovely pic: Danish police officer & Syrian girl. #refugees
http://t.co/4ouq0dLTKW.
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Just had a call on my mobile, no caller ID, and an American voice told me my identity may have been stolen and there is an arrest warrant out in my name. "Stay on the phone to speak to a federal agent." I didn't. But life in 2020 really is bizarre, no? @nswpolice.
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Everyone is scrambling to get their nationals out, but apparently the French military has been going to the homes of the people they're evacuating and taking them to Kabul airport under armed guard . @abcnews #Afghanistan #evacuation.
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God give me strength. What is my profession coming to? Including the ones who described this incorrectly and beat it up. #auspol #journalism.
I’m finally watching the full video, and lord give me strength. This isn’t a gotcha or shocking moment, Dreyfus simply isn’t taking shit from Sky Jurno Olivia Caisey. Why apologise for following the law!? It is an absurd question. But what else do you expect from gutter Sky
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Scott Morrison’s energy deal with NSW, announced this morning, is a huge win for fossil fuel company Santos, a major political donor with extensive ties to the Coalition.by @BernardKeane.#auspol #nswpol #fossilfuels #politicaldonors.
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Armchair media critics condemning Katharine Murphy for the headline on her last piece. Writers don't write headlines: sub-editors do and section editors okay them. As a freelance, I don't see headlines on my pieces until they're published. And I often don't like them. #journalism.
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And Israel's?.
Russia's missile attacks on several Ukrainian cities, including a Kyiv children's hospital are abhorrent. We condemn the targeting of civilian infrastructure, including hospitals. Australia continues to support the people of Ukraine in the face of Russia's illegal, immoral war.
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God I’m tired of the very idea of a “pub test” for assessing government, governance and ethics. #auspol.
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It's a "great betrayal" of the country and a "sad day" for Australia that there won't be bi-partisan support for an "important national enterprise". 'A Judas betrayal': Noel Pearson criticises Liberal opposition to Voice.- i'view @PatsKarvelas .#Voice.
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Thing Peter Dutton doesn't understand, I'm sure, coming from where he does, is that union members aren't told what to do by "union bosses". They vote. I've been on strike with colleagues, against MEAA advice, several times. #unions.
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Why is the PM canvassing the hypothetical of opening up Australia to overseas travel some time in the future when he hasn't yet dealt with the far more urgent need to bring distressed Australians stranded overseas back home now?.#auspol.
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.@alexellinghausen: .Nationals leader Michael McCormack approaches the backbench for a discussion with Barnaby Joyce during QT.#auspol
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Golly, @TurnbullMalcolm is turning into the Donald Trump of #auspol, the way he's rewriting history. Though I don't think he can claim dementia. 1. @KKeneally didn't appoint Obeid to her cabinet.2. She hastened his retirement.3. She testified against him at ICAC.
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The brilliant Kate McClymont was honoured with the Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism last night, recognising her decades-long commitment truth, rigour, integrity and fairness. Well-earned 👏👏👏.#journalism
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How DARE Scott Morrison attend Pellegrini's today - a symbol of our multiculturalism & the colour & life immigrants have brought to this country - & have a go at Muslim fellow-citizens while he was there. Shame!.@abcnews #auspol #Melbourne #hometown #Pellegrini #SistoMalaspina
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Kant, 1795: It has developed to the point where a violation of rights in one part of the world is felt everywhere.
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Morrison in 2019: “We would be mugs [to not accept the Belt and Road Initiative with China]; mugs!”. Morrison in 2021: Tears up two BRI agreements between Victoria and China. via @EddyJokovich .#auspol #China.
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In case you think from Richard Flanagan's nauseating book, Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry, that this is only an Australian problem, here's the Canadian critique:.#fishfarming #disease #ethics
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Re Simon Birmingham on @RNBreakfast earlier, saying the PM ringing Assange could endanger the US alliance. The Liberals don't deviate from US directives. Remember the fate of David Hicks in Guantanamo:.
@BarnsGreg @theage A reminder that we were the only country in the world, under Howard et al, who didn't work to bring their national home from Guantanamo. From something I wrote:
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FFS, a journo at Morrison's presser - and a woman - asking about "inappropriate work behaviour" rather than about a crime which requires mandatory reporting to the police and can carry a prison sentence of up to 25 years . #journalism #rape #crime.
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FFS! I'm so SICK of twitter dissing the MSM. If you all PAID for your journalism, instead of expecting it ree - can you imagine just walking out of a newsagent with a newspaper in the old days? - you wouldn't be getting your news from depopulated newsrooms, #journalism #media 1/.
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Why do we call them "Black Friday Sales" in Australia now, given it's US slang?. Here, Black Friday refers to the dreadful 13 January 1939 bushfires and has stood as a metaphor for the horrendous challenges of our country ever since. It's not commercial jargon .
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Interesting that @RadioNational's 8.00 a.m. news bulletin on the new labour call-out law led with business saying it will be a problem for viability, then a disapproving quote from Opposition MP Jane Hume on its effect on the economy. And that was it. @abcnews.
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The best in the world?
Tasmanian salmon is the best in the world. And the workers that produce it here in Tassal are world class too.
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If this anti-intellectual government stays in much longer, we'll have no art, no music, no philosophers, no historians, no anthropologists, no linguists, no anyone contributing to culture. We'll just be a nation of hicks digging fossil fuels out of the ground.#auspol #Budget2020.
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Well, fuck me dead. To use a phrase I haven’t heard since the pubs around Melbourne Uni when I was an undergrad. *One week ago diagnosed. Awful. *For 3.5 days barely moved, no food. *3.5 days ago antiviral taken.*2.5 days ago excruciating pain gone.*2 days slept.*Right now:
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Just saw the sickening tweet by Mark Latham that I'm sorry I read, and won't repost, but @hughriminton has subtweeted it if you can bear to look. How does someone like him end up in our Parliament? Or anywhere in public life in Australia?. I loathe where society is heading . .
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Meanwhile, @ScottMorrisonMP is surprisingly cocky. Shouting about a fair go for those who have a go, dissing the poor & the needy, & how bad the Labor Party is (what?), & politicising the #InvictusGames .I knew he wouldn't learn from this vote. #auspol #WentworthByElection.
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'This is what Peter Dutton gets from making Jacinta Nampijinpa Price the Coalition’s Indigenous spokeswoman: a weaponised conservative woman who can say things out loud that white conservatives haven’t dared to say since the early 1960s'.- by @tonyowright.
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Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud’s response to a question posed on November 29 about Arab countries’ readiness to accept Palestinians as refugees amid Israel’s war on the besieged Gaza enclave — has gained attention on social media. @trtworld
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Why isn't our Prime Minister heading to the UN Climate Summit in New York, instead of providing free marketing to a billionaire donor's business and helping the US President at a stump rally in Ohio?.#auspol #climatechange #sciencedenial
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Listening to the Prime Minister’s New Year message. Apart from anything else, why is he shouting?.
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Well, I overnighted at St V’s after breaking my wrist in the most ridiculous way. Excruciating. Morphine no help. Awaiting surgery. Talk about being over 2020. 😬.
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Ridiculous, isn't it? The Vatican won't allow people to abseil down the Dome of St Peter's Basilica either. Nor will those Muslims allow kids to skateboard on the Ka'ba. Killjoys, the lot of them . #religiousnuts.
Climbing Uluru is on the bucket list of many Australians (including me) but the NT Government plans to ban it this October. Join the @auconservatives' fight to keep it open by signing our petition today.
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As Barnaby Joyce warned his colleagues against getting caught when drunk in public after the Jenkins report, it has emerged Scott Morrison removed references to respect from the ministerial code of conduct.by @KarenMMiddleton .#auspol
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Australian artist Archie Moore has won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale! How thrilling - for him and for the country . 👏👏👏.#VeniceBiennale #Australia #ArchieMoore
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Britian has already issued a travel warning. Now the Netherlands. Do you think the possibility even crossed the mind of #ScottyfromMarketing, ex (though not very successful) tourism chief?.#auspol #bushfires #tourism.
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Koala, Volkswagen Australia, Big W, Yourtown Prize Homes, Anytime Fitness, Amart, Mercedes Benz, Snooze, Bunnings, Bing Lee, RSL Art Union, Total Tools have all said they will withdraw advertising from Alan Jones's show on 2GB.via @TheNewDailyAu .#AlanJones #advertising #ethics.
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No idea who made this. A friend sent it along without accreditation. But I love it!
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Just reading an ad for an editor's job. WTAF does this mean?. "Managing ideation, production, delivery and optimisation of branded content to quality standards, KPIs and deadlines". 2020 really is a step too far . 🙄.
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Worst part of PVO's silly remark about @JoshBBornstein, for a fellow journalist, is that it's simply wrong. As a quote and as a paraphrase. Another black mark against his skill and ethics, after the Porter defence without disclosure. And I've defended him in the past. #journalism.
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Hate to diss my Melb colleagues but I'm not sure what's worse, the banality of some questions or the obvious hostility of others. What do they want? The Vic Govt to shrug and let people go around spreading this doozy of a mutation of the virus?.#vicpol #coronavirus #lockdown.
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I wonder how we went from 24 to 50 on the global ranking of women's equality since 2014? 🤔.@RNBreakfast . (The inaugural WEF Global Gender Gap Report in 2006 ranked us 15 out of 115 countries.). #auspol #women #equality.
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