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Stephanie Convery

@gingerandhoney.bsky.social
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Writer. Reporter at Guardian Australia. Stories and tips: stephanie.convery@theguardian.com or stephanieconvery@protonmail.com; DM for Signal

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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from me today: Nazi artefacts still being sold online years after trade outlawed across Australia www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Nazi artefacts still being sold online years after trade outlawed across Australia
One seller says second world war memorabilia containing banned Nazi symbols is legal under exemptions to the laws
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Last week, the Fair Work Ombudsman had no comment on Supp, a gig-work app for the hospitality industry that classifies baristas, bartenders etc as independent contractors. Today, that appears to have changed: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Alarm bells raised over hospitality gig-work app that sees staff hired as contractors not employees, missing out on super etc www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Hospitality recruitment app Supp calls gig-workers contractors. Some users say it leads to casual work without entitlements
Exclusive: Workers’ rights experts raise ‘alarm bells’ over app requiring ABNs for jobs they say lack worker autonomy
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Bratislava @nondescriptive.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
You don't need to have super-niche interests for this to be a potential issue. I always thought of rare books as something for real literature nerds but now I'm wondering if autobiographies of the first women marathon runners are being destroyed here. Joan Benoit Samuelson's is out of print...
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Something I didn’t really needle in on here but is worth noting: They say they aren’t shredding rare books, but how do they know? A rare book isn’t always listed as such. Eg. a chapbook from a significant poet that didn’t get noticed when it was catalogued because the vendor didn’t know its history.
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Never not taking up an opportunity to write about rare books www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"It's an extraordinarily intimate relationship": I spoke to two of Victoria's small team of voluntary assisted dying care navigators, whose job it is to help terminally ill people chart a course towards choice @gogentleaus.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Voluntary assisted dying care navigators help Victoria’s end-of-life patients chart a course for choice
‘We have the privilege of seeing a lot of love,’ Kristen Kappel says – with death ‘the most beautiful, satisfying, precious part of our role’
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MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
MEAA stands with Nine Publishing members affected by today’s announcement that 30 editorial roles will be cut across The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times and WAToday. Read more: meaa.io/4frrhXV
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Eighteen months ago, the owners corporation of the small apartment building in which I live jettisoned strata managers entirely and took on management of the building ourselves. Here’s a story about how and why. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Cc @strataownersaus.bsky.social
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Unit owners are wresting back control of their stratas: ‘If I don’t do it, the building will fall into the street’
Amid high costs and low confidence in the industry, some owner-occupiers are taking on Australia’s commercialised strata system
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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 25/06/2026
"The Guardian is aware that at least nine of the musicians who played in the Sydney concerts are now helping the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) with a workplace inquiry about the events surrounding the performance."
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The pianist from the audience at La La Land in Concert was a global feelgood story – but all was not what it seemed
Two orchestra members from the Sydney performance allege tensions behind the scenes were the cause of pianist failing to appear after intermission
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
There's a link to the full statement on the MEAA website now: www.meaa.org/Public/Conte...
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Statement condemning Pauline Hanson’s treatment of journalist Sarah Martin
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MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
MEAA condemns the continuing treatment of journalist Sarah Martin by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson. Journalists must be able to do their job without fear of intimidation, exclusion, or personal attack. This is a moment for us to stand together and hold the line on press freedom. meaa.io/3SbzRlK
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The National Media Sector of @withmeaa.bsky.social put this statement together yesterday in the wake of Sarah being attacked by Hanson at the press club. We need to call out attacks on press freedom when we see them. It's journalists standing together against this stuff that is going to stop it.
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I mean what the hell are we even doing here
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Sarah Martin is an incredible journalist and Hanson personally attacking her for very standard questions shows just how down the Trump normalisation we are. And it will come to all journalists who do their job.
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Pauline Hanson's attack on Sarah Martin at the press club just now was abhorrent, but what was absolutely shameful was the journalists in the room applauding it. Where is your workplace solidarity? What the hell do you think this kind of behaviour leads to?
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I learned an academic who wrote about students not cutting corners in learning (by using AI) had used AI to write her opinion piece. Confirmed with the uni last night. Went to Nine about it this morning. Never responded but pulled the article and pubbed their own www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Sydney academic used AI to write SMH opinion piece urging students to avoid using tech to ‘cut corners’
Sydney Morning Herald removes piece by Cath Ellis, despite Western Sydney University saying her use of AI was ‘appropriate’
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Giving minimum wage earners (about 100,000 people) a 6% wage increase to match inflation, and the 3m or so workers who have awards tied to it a 4.75% is not going to cause a wage price spiral. It means they can buy what they are already buying. Like bread AND milk and maybe some biscuits and fuel
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I have been working on this for a little while now. It’s a story that stunned me when I heard it and showed the contours of a problem that is deep and structural. Please read 🩷 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is quite a story by @gingerandhoney.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
We asked a passing bird to tell us. We asked the face we see in the mirror. We cut each page into many pieces, looked for pieces containing the word ‘truth’ and fed them to a goat. The next day the goat said, ‘Probably. Or maybe not.’ We smiled and told each other: ‘Time will tell.’
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Forgive me for sharing this again, but the Kyle Hudson inquest was incredibly affecting – and revealing – about the depth of harm gambling can cause to a young man with no adverse circumstances, the info betting companies have, and crucially, what they do with it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Flagged for winning, inducements when losing: how betting firms watched a Melbourne man gamble $895,000 before his death at 22
Kyle Hudson joined a betting app on his 18th birthday, and lost his final, $1,300 bet on the morning of his 2021 death. A coroner wants to know if anything can be done to stop it from happening again
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 15/05/2026
Flagged for winning, inducements when losing: how betting firms watched a Melbourne man gamble $895,000 before his death at 22
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Flagged for winning, inducements when losing: how betting firms watched a Melbourne man gamble $895,000 before his death at 22
Kyle Hudson joined a betting app on his 18th birthday, and lost his final, $1,300 bet on the morning of his 2021 death. A coroner wants to know if anything can be done to stop it from happening again * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The WNBA match between the Dallas Wings and New York Liberty in July 2021 was a nail-biter. The lead bounced back and forth between the teams more than a dozen times. Liberty kept the Wings at bay in the third quarter but Dallas took the lead with just under five minutes left in the fourth. Thirty seconds later, the score was tied. Kyle Hudson, 22, was on the other side of the world from that Brooklyn basketball court, but he was heavily invested. Continue reading...
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
22yo Kyle Hudson’s brother, Ryan, told the coroner this week that his family had no idea of the depth of Kyle’s gambling. He was the last person any of them thought was at risk of suicide. But the betting companies did know about his gambling. What did they do? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Flagged for winning, inducements when losing: how betting firms watched a Melbourne man gamble $895,000 before his death at 22
Kyle Hudson joined a betting app on his 18th birthday, and lost his final, $1,300 bet on the morning of his 2021 death. A coroner wants to know if anything can be done to stop it from happening again
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Today in "you're never too old to learn that thing": women aged 39 to 75 told me about how they felt getting back on a bicycle for the first time in decades – and some for the first time ever. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Learn-to-cycle courses are booming in Australia as adults saddle up for the ‘golden age’ of biking
Whether they are rusty riders or complete beginners, more people are keen to navigate life on two wheels
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Ah, but do we not all, in some way, remain Barry Jones in the process?
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Gawenda has responded to this in the comments section. So has Jeff in turn. Hoo boy.
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
If you'll permit me, a thread: On the weekend, former Age editor Michael Gawenda had a crack at @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social via The Australian. Jeff's supposed crime was organising and publishing an anti-genocide letter in 2023 while editor of Overland and senior lecturer in journalism at UniMelb.
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
They seem to have removed this embed now, which is good, but yikes
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I realise this is a story about racism, but I don't think the ABC ought to be embedding social media posts by an actual neo-Nazi publication without telling readers what that publication is. This is not just any "announcement" news. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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Racism erupts after Melbourne announces Little India plans
Social media posts about the announcement of a Little India precinct in Melbourne are flooded with racist comments, leaving some Indians with mixed feelings about the plan.
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I went hunting for Australia's oldest playable musical instrument. Here's what I found.
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The yidaki, a 16th-century double bass and a South American flute: finding Australia’s oldest playable musical instrument
The first musical instrument to arrive with European colonisers in Australia was a piano made in 1780 – but there are older ones still being played
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
And not a book in sight.
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Plans for gaudy Trump presidential library in Miami spark ridicule
Video posted on social media depicts a rendering of the proposed 50-storey gargantuan structure decked in gold
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George @hannahtempler.com · 06/03/2026
move slow and repair things
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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Good piece by @index.lamestream.com.au.ap.brid.gy about the strike at the ABC. www.lamestream.com.au/express-your... Stuff like this is almost breathtaking, if unsurprising:
Marks’ style of leadership is another flashpoint.

Earlier this month, he was due to address staff at a town hall meeting to make his latest and what he said was his final offer in negotiations. But before the meeting, Marks unveiled the offer in an exclusive with the Financial Review.

When he showed up to the town hall, Marks was asked why he’d chosen to go to the commercial media with his pay offer, instead of to his own staff. Marks replied that he didn’t have to explain himself.
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Fiona Parker @fionaparker1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
#ABC #QualityNewsQualityJobs #Bendigo
A group of people standing outside the ABC Central Victoria station in Bendigo, with a CPSU banner.
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Matt Bevan @mattbevan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The If You're Listening team is striking today, calling for fair pay and conditions, particularly for casual and fixed term staff. I'm lucky enough to have an ongoing role - many of my colleagues don't. As a result, this week's Thursday episode will be released on Friday.
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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I'm begging people to click through and look at this man with his cat if nothing else
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I've known Wallace Kirsop since I was a child. He and my father were keen book collectors, bibliophiles. They'd met in the 1950s. A nice profile of a lovely man, with some astute observations on our public libraries @humanitiesau.bsky.social
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The Melbourne expert who has spent a lifetime uncovering ‘the archaeology of the printed book’
Prof Wallace Kirsop, 92, is one of Australia’s foremost experts in rare books – not just their contents but their makers, buyers and readers, and the stories they tell beyond the page
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Sometimes the origin of a story is just a passing comment, like a casual mention of the 92yo rare books expert who often just drops by the State Library with an extremely valuable book in his pocket to donate. I was very taken by this, so I found the guy. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The Melbourne expert who has spent a lifetime uncovering ‘the archaeology of the printed book’
Prof Wallace Kirsop, 92, is one of Australia’s foremost experts in rare books – not just their contents but their makers, buyers and readers, and the stories they tell beyond the page
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The really insane thing about arts funding cuts like the ones currently devastating Victoria is how small the savings are. Jacinta Allen is presiding over generational damage to the arts scene, for a saving of around 1 day of transport infrastructure spending
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
One longtime Victorian arts leader tells the Guardian: “I think the wider cultural shock is [Melbourne] is going to go from the cultural capital to the least funded city in Australia.” New from me today:
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Cutting the creative state: funding changes threaten the cultural future of Melbourne, arts workers warn
Creative Victoria funding has dropped by more than $20m since 2022 and organisations including Writers Victoria now face closure
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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I spoke to @gingerandhoney.bsky.social this week about the cuts to Victoria’s arts funding ecosystem. The cuts, the uncertainty and lack of transparency have left a cloud over what was Australia’s creative heart. The Melbourne Advantage is over. We’ll see if other cities pick up the pieces.
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Cutting the creative state: funding changes threaten the cultural future of Melbourne, arts workers warn
Creative Victoria funding has dropped by more than $20m since 2022 and organisations including Writers Victoria now face closure
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A look at sombre times in Melbourne’s arts scene via @gingerandhoney.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Cutting the creative state: funding changes threaten the cultural future of Melbourne, arts workers warn
Creative Victoria funding has dropped by more than $20m since 2022 and organisations including Writers Victoria now face closure
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kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org · 16/02/2026
Such a pleasure to have a major news outlet doing these sorts of stories about the much ignored west of Victoria.
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Continuing my little run of stories about overlooked places in far north-western Victoria: this story was a joy to write but Stu Walmsley’s pics really make it sing www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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In the tiny outback town of Underbool, the community pool is a ‘vital’ part of life – and they almost lost it
Locals in the Victorian Mallee town, where summer temperatures regularly top 45C, fought for 10 years to save the only swimming spot for 50km
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"QUT will become the new custodian of Meanjin, Australia's most eminent literary journal, bringing the publication back to Brisbane 80 years after it relocated to Melbourne." So um, what the fuck was all that about then, UniMelb? www.qut.edu.au/news?id=203300
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Meanjin returns home: QUT to become custodian of Australia's iconic literary journal
QUT will become the new custodian of Meanjin, Australia's most eminent literary journal, bringing the publication back to Brisbane 80 years after it relocated to Melbourne.
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Stephanie Convery @gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
If you’re even asking the question at this point, you’re on the wrong side, jfc
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Excessive or reasonable? Police actions at Sydney's protest analysed
What is reasonable? It's a question being asked by some after footage of clashes in Sydney's CBD, during a rally against Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Vale to an amazing man and legendary, brilliant cartoonist. The cartooning community is in mourning today.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Where it all went wrong: the case against John Howard is available for pre-order and you should get it just because it is going to make Alexander Downer very mad 😇 (You can also ask for it at your library 💖) You can pre-order it at any of your faves www.readings.com.au/product/9781...
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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Wrote a piece for @crikey.com.au on how the media stopped discussing climate change www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/02/c...
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It's a record 48.9°C summer. The media doesn't care, and there's a few reasons why
It's getting hotter, but politicians — and crucially, the press that pushed them — don't seem to care. It's all the result of the slow but steady collapse of global stability.
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