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Melissa Fyfe

@melfyfe

Senior writer, Good Weekend Magazine. She/Her.

Melbourne Katılım Mart 2009
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I chat here with Anna Marsden, managing director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, about the controversial 2018 funding from the Turnbull government and where it’s all gone, as the reef recovers from its fifth bleaching event since 2016. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/goo…
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‘Are we playing God?’ Researchers fast-track evolution in fight to save the reef In this story I look at all the science behind trying to help the reef - or parts of it - through a warming world. theage.com.au/national/are-w…
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As a kid we often drove past Dame Nellie’s house behind the huge hedge at Coldstream. It was a thrill to go beyond the hedge for this story about the amazing house Melba left behind and efforts to finally catalogue everything in it. @GoodWeekendMag smh.com.au/national/one-o…
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My amazing colleagues explaining the kinds of things they do when not on strike trying to save journalism. To add mine: yesterday I would have been in court to see the sentencing of Sakina Muhammad Jan for a Good Weekend feature on forced marriage.
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Tony Armstrong, Paul Kelly, Dave Hughes and Jane Harper are among the dozens of high-profile Australians standing with journalists from the newsrooms of The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review, Brisbane Times and WAToday, demanding quality jobs for quality journalism. We need your support, please share our message and sign the petition. meaa.org/dont-torch-jou… #donttorchjournalism #MEAAmedia
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Fighting for a better deal for journalism #meaa @theage @smh
Solidarity@soli_aus

500 @withMEAA members at Nine Papers walked out on strike for five days this morning. They’re fighting for an above-inflation pay rise and more. The Melbourne strikers were greeted by ACTU and Trades Hall supporters. ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

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Annabel Crabb@annabelcrabb·
abc.net.au/news/2024-06-1… ANALYSIS: My new column for @abcnews "The Australian media industry tells a long and continuing story ... of mediocre men whose shamelessness extends their professional life expectancies well beyond a real meritocracy would permit."
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Justice Lee mentioned several issues we wrote about in this GW piece: a) alcohol's role in consent and memory b) trauma's role in how victims present, and c) "appropriate" responses to an assault given things like the freeze response. smh.com.au/national/he-te…
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@KenMcAlpine @JacintaAllanMP Hi Ken, I don’t think you need to listen to the Opposition or ‘accepted wisdom’ you just need to look at our financial situation and draw conclusions from that. We have done big projects but now we just need to pause before committing huge amounts of money that we don’t have.
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Ken McAlpine@KenMcAlpine·
@melfyfe @JacintaAllanMP Hi Mel, yes that is what the Opposition is saying and perhaps they should be satisfied that such a line seems to have become accepted wisdom. Big projects often have bigger risks but in a growing city we need to cater for its infrastructure needs. Not everything is either/or.
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Agree with this. Victoria simply can’t afford the Suburban Rail Loop. Other, more worthy, priorities will suffer. @JacintaAllanMP this is one of your projects, yes, but don’t let it be your legacy. Your legacy lies somewhere else, not in this folly.
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If Premier Jacinta Allan really wants to have 800,000 homes built in Victoria over the next 10 years, she should dump the money-sink Suburban Rail Loop. By @BrendanCoates and @joeybmoloney from @GrattanInst via @theheraldsun grattan.edu.au/news/2-big-una… #auspol #springst #housing

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@MessengerAndrew Melbourne has poor public transport in the outer suburban areas and this needs to be addressed. But this is not where the SRL is.
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@MessengerAndrew I think we have rightly done an enormous amount in last 10 years and just need to pause to pay down debt so it doesn’t overwhelm other parts of govt service delivery.
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