Naaman Zhou
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Copy editor at @newyorker . Previously a reporter at @GuardianAus
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I wrote something for
@NewYorker
about my grandmother, language, and the Austrian TV show “Inspector Rex”
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I will break these in half and cook them in a cream-based sauce that I will call a “carbonara”, unless Italy agrees to release the 250,000 doses of AstraZeneca back to Australia
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this is the best moment from the Djokovic interview transcript
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scientists discover a FOURTH line on the rosetta stone that says "lmaoo this blew up 😂😂" and has soundcloud links to other ancient royal decrees
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One of the most amazing things that has ever happened to me. I was walking down a street in NYC and bumped into the GOAT
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minor Chris Lilley character
I could live all my life and never come up with anything as funny as Raygun, the 36-year-old Australian Olympic breakdancer
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Only in Australia could we manage to blame new coronavirus cases on Asians, then young people, then Indigenous people, then Muslims, when the real answer was travellers from the US, security guards, bad luck and 5G anti-vax conspiracy theorists
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The NSW health minister saying he wants to thank "Kyle and Jackie-O, particularly Kyle" is one of the most depressing phrases I've heard in my 27 years of life
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Dave Sharma has become the first MP for Wentworth, since it was established at federation, to lose an election for the seat twice.
#AusVotes2022
#auspol
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[McDonalds Penn Station]
Me: [chanting] egg, egg-
Manager: [pounding clipboard] EGG, EGG
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Some news: After 4.5 yrs as a reporter at the incredible
@GuardianAus
, I’m moving next month to a new role as a copy editor at the New Yorker. I’m very sad to be leaving what I consider the best colleagues & best newsroom in the country. A tweet can’t express my thanks for it all
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Tu Le should have been elected the MP for Fowler tonight. Hope Labor, and all of Australian politics, can learn from this
#auspol
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Bob Hawke let my parents stay here after Tiananmen Square, when they were students. Something many Chinese-Australians will be talking to their children and families about tonight. Vale.
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you have to love the BBC putting two films in the headline but using the picture slot to just have Olivia Colman twice
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You wouldn’t steal a car.
You wouldn’t steal a handbag.
You wouldn’t pirate the memoir of a former Liberal prime minister and forward it to 59 politicians and journalists.
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New Covid restrictions for NSW:
- Purchases of barbecues will be limited to five
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To all my American followers – one of Australia's biggest sporting teams, the Sydney Swans, is actually named after Jonathan Swan
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@thomas_violence
Idiot. What about Toileto, the toilet-cleaning billionaire, who cleaned a billion toilets?
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teens are flooding the streets, demanding and receiving mammograms, getting high off the rush
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Someone please tell me this email is from a parody account, written by one of you as a prank
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stunning to see the New York Times presidential endorsement
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Remember a few years ago when house prices rose, and everybody blamed foreign (i.e: Chinese) buyers?
Now we've had a year of closed borders & near-zero migration....and they've risen even higher, to new heights, including 8.5% growth in a single quarter. Funny that
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nah why would I do that to myself. you can keep the vaccines
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Everything about this shot from last night’s Masterchef makes it look like they are about to execute a contestant for being a double agent during the Cold War.
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Nobody was ever saying that teenagers don't do dumb things. The question is why was this cohort of boys' dumb thing spitting on homeless people and assaulting women, while other schools put dishwashing liquid in the fountain
The Herald's view: The teenage brain is a work-in-progress. Remember that when blaming the Shore students
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I'm very sad to say that my friend
@_slangers
passed away this weekend. Sam was only 23 and one of Australia's brightest young journalists. A genius writer, designer, polymath, & endlessly kind. Talented is too short a word, and calling it a loss doesn't even begin to explain
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23 years in between. Thanks to my mum – a student with a child, a single mother, an inspiration ❤️
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Novak Djokovic’s legal team sent the immigration minister a blurry screenshot of an online poll run by the Age and the SMH that asked “Should Djokovic stay?” — where they themselves voted "Yes"
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lots of valid criticism of the amazon spurs documentary but this is incredible
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Dr Kerry Chant to whoever they gave the 109 figure to yesterday
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To clear up some confusion today – I have the missing 3.1m doses of AstraZeneca. It's my fault. They're just in my house
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Just a reminder that Nick Kyrgios is half-Malaysian and half-Greek, which means if he wins he will be the first Asian-Australian tennis player to win a Grand Slam final
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If you need me over the 6-12 months, just know that mentally, I’m here
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when you realise the USWNT have conceded eight goals this year, four off set pieces, corners to be exact
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Millimetres. But Americans don’t know what those are
This is how close the USWNT were to extending penalties. 😳
Is there even a measuring unit to determine that? 📏
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Told my mum Berejiklian might resign, and she said she never forgave her for using discounts to encourage the uptake of Opal cards and then removing the discounts
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Adani has changed its name to a Latin word that means “crooked”, “deformed”, “mercenary or assassin”, after mistakenly thinking that it meant “brave”
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So why do we celebrate it then?
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Pru Goward was the minister for social housing in the Berejiklian government when they decided to sell the Sirius Building
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surely the worst bird is this individual bird, the knife bird
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Exclusive: We can confirm there are now at least 440 coronavirus cases from the Ruby Princess across Australia.
For the first time, cases outside of NSW outnumber those inside the state.
In SA, Ruby Princess cases are 25% of the state total
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Incredibly honoured by this. Thank you to everyone who read these stories. And thanks to
@mikewsc1
, who edited the main feature, and the entire
@GuardianAus
team, who were constantly supportive of these stories and this beat.
@lenoretaylor
@davidmunk
@patrickkeneally
@Jo_Tovey
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The winner for All Media Public Service Journalism supported by
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is “Australia’s delivery rider deaths
@naamanzhou
,
@GuardianAus
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This is such frustrating sportswriting—a confected conflict between two caricatures. Barty isn’t “beige” or “tradition”, she’s incredibly wily and unorthodox. She’s world No. 1 at 5'5", with her best shot a backhand slice. And both players have nothing but respect for the other
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This is honestly like if you told an AI, “What if Aunty Donna qualified Australia for the World Cup”
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"What's an essential job? A job that someone has"
HE STRAIGHT-UP SAID IT AGAIN
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@camtyeson
@jrhennessy
you can both miss me with this anti-Diocles b***shit. do u fake chariot fans ever get tired 😂
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What you see moments before you get torn to pieces by a crocodile in north queensland
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Thinking about 2016/7 when there was much finger-wagging over Chinese people buying up milk powder (after a scandal in China where 50,000+ babies were poisoned)
Cut to 2020 and seemingly all Australians now own 5 weeks' worth of toilet paper over a non-existent quarantine
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UPDATE: I went back (at a non-peak time) for the egg.
Staff said the graphic is NOT unique to Penn Station. It was made by "whoever does the screens".
The manager then very graciously showed me the egg. Please do not swamp these good people for the egg.
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If I was a PR operative my first piece of advice would be to never rort anything that rhymes with rort
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Why is Morrison so defensive and snappy in what should just be a basic public health messaging exercise?
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Ash Barty says: "I know that, I am spent, physically, I don't have anything more to give...I have given everything I can to this beautiful sport...and I'm really happy with that. For me, that is my success"
Absolutely devastated by this, but, you have to back her decision.
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Nabi, wearing a NZ Warriors shirt with a pakol, a traditional Afghan hat, took to the witnesses’ table pausing for long looks directly at the gunman.
The world had been created “with colour”, he said. “A peasant like you will never change the human race”
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There is no Santa at Myer Bondi Junction, according to the website
So a 4 yr old is walking through Myer Bondi Junctn. Thrilled to see Santa. Then realises Santa, complete with beard, is a woman. Distressed, he cries “that’s not Santa”! Why are we traumatising little kids with this gender nonsense? Child abuse? You betcha
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Jess Hill speaking in Sydney now. She talks about DARVO - “Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender."
“It took just three days for this tactic to be deployed about Kate...They reverse it so it looks like the alleged perpetrator is the victim”
#March4Justice
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Pre-drinks at The Hague
Moments with Mr. Kissinger, former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and John Howard, Ms. Condoleezza Rice and Mr. Robert Gates.
Excellent discussions with these global thought leaders.
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4 Corners? Yeah I'm watching 4 Corners. The 4 corners of the Sweden goal that Sam Kerr is going to score in
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Absolute queen
Most people won’t have heard of her, but 48-year-old Jian Fang Lay made it through to the 3rd round in the table tennis today. BUT more impressively this is her 6th
#olympics
, equalling the most ever by an Australian female 🙌🏼
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The Hunger Games were famously a manufactured sideshow to distract people from overall inequality and scarcity
NSW Health Minister
@BradHazzard
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#COVID19nsw
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Been working on this for a while and so excited to publish it today. I profiled Sam Kerr for the
@NewYorker
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A large protest is marching from Sydney’s Hyde Park to NSW Parliament, to protest Indigenous deaths in custody, and the death of George Floyd
@GuardianAus
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Huge missed opportunity from the Federal Court to say “Please like and subscribe” at the end of that livestream
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It appears that the mice have reached a level of military organisation and tactical nous akin to Hannibal at Cannae. I will be deserting the human side immediately and throwing my lot in with the mice
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Put this in the Louvre of shit photos. everything about it is terrible
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"This is Officer Beck. Ah, – yeah, she's gonna introduce herself" is so good, you can hear it on the page
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This Time Out piece that named Enmore Road one of the 33 coolest streets in the world, has sadly used a photo of King Street
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Good line from sharp young staffer: “This virus is good.... NOT!”
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[before engaging in any sexual interaction] Does anyone have an android charger?
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In November, Lihong Wei came to Sydney for the first time in her life. For three weeks, she ate only instant noodles, because the food in Australia was too expensive. Her husband used to deliver it.
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A Sydney University law professor, who is researching protest law, has been thrown to ground and arrested by police while he was observing a protest today
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My grandma loves watching football –but doesn’t understand the English commentary, so she writes down all the team names, and gets me to tell her who they are when I come over
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Reminder that Jodi McKay predicted this in March
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I spoke to my mum about the day Bob Hawke let the students stay. She was 25 – the same age as I am now. "We saw humanity."
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@jrhennessy
the idea that a 13 year old who likes Magic The Gathering would realise by 15 that it was uncool is instantly unbelievable
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