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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 11/07/2025

Anyway back to the Segal report on antisemitism. The foreword mentions hate-filled chants outside the Sydney Opera House - wasn't this disproven? After initial investigations by Antoinette Lattouf and Cam Wilson at @crikey.com.au? And then the ABC unfairly dismissed Lattouf later that same month?

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 11/07/2025

The thing that stands out to me most in the widely discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism is that it's considered antisemitic to apply "double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behaviour not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation". And "democratic" means ...?

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 11/07/2025

This misleading headline claims "Jewish groups back antisemitism report, while critics warn of curbs on free speech". Yet the critics quoted here are Jewish too. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 28/05/2025

I can't believe I karened Shanghainese into the Medicare portal by complaining about it for years and years 😂

My tweet from 2022 complaining about Wu not being available as a language on Medicare

My tweet from 2024 complaining about the lack of data about Wu speakers in Australia

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 28/05/2025

omg but I just discovered Shanghainese exists in the Medicare portal! did I manifest this by complaining incessantly? (and making a submission to the 2023 Review of the Australian Standard Classification of Languages - yeah maybe that)

Screenshot of Medicare form showing Shanghainese as a language option

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 20/05/2025

never thought I'd hear politicians talk so explicitly about re-entry. also I'm not sure he should be labouring this metaphor coz I don't think there's public consensus that getting back together with your ex is a wise move

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 20/05/2025

Labor has 93 seats at current count and the Coalition 43 - but broken up, the various blues look pretty paltry

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 05/05/2025

Greens overtook the Liberals for the first time in my electorate this year (Footscray and metro west). It's still safely Labor this time but cool to see the 2PP flip, and a +6.48 swing to the Greens and +1.95 to the Socialists.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 03/05/2025

Look at this beautiful biscuit

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 03/05/2025

But then I went over to the high school and they had everything I wanted! Sausages with cheese and onion, chocolate crackles, honey joys, Anzacs and soft drink. So good

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 01/05/2025

Another example of the AEC not taking election disinformation in Chinese seriously www.afr.com/politics/fed...

Fin Review article about Liberal candidate Scott Yung's mother telling a WeChat group that the green lower house ballot was for voting for her son while the white Senate ballot was for voting for a party, neglecting to mention that the party that wins the most seats in the lower house forms govt

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 28/04/2025

Good Weekend revealed last week that Advance ran 7 social media channels to campaign against the Voice. From 2018 to 2024, Advance collected more than $30 million, mostly from mining barons and the like. The leadership is pretty much all "retired" Liberals. www.smh.com.au/national/cop...

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 28/04/2025

In what language does "expand" mean "we're not increasing funding but you can apply for it in smaller increments"? www.liberal.org.au/policy/our-p...

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 16/04/2025

Seems like she was schtupping Madonna, Angelina Jolie and Ione Skye all in roughly the same time (mid 90s). Madonna would fly her to Paris for just a night; Skye says her safeword was 'London' ✈️

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 16/04/2025

Trying to girlboss her way out of being called a nepo baby. Yes we say the same thing about men. If your surname is on a 2500-seat theatre, sit down www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 16/04/2025

What Jenny Shimizu has done for the reputation of Asian dykes deserves a medal

Ione Skye talking about how Jenny's strap made her "needy and devoted. I wanted to be her dog"

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 03/04/2025

ABC still got this photo but all the photos that Dutton's campaign released only show paper fish in the background 🐟🐠🐡

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 02/04/2025

Last year staff, freelancers and even some 4-legged comrades stood together at the strike. We're not backing down now until Nine management commit to fair rates for freelancers. Sign the petition here: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...

Emma Hartley, me and a dog at the strike.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 02/04/2025

Freelance rates at The Age & SMH have dropped 59% in the last 20 years. Last year a gorgeous joint strike of staff + freelancers pushed management to negotiate with freelancers but since then they've stonewalled us. Sign our petition: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr... @withmeaa.bsky.social

Freelancers and staff on strike outside The Age's offices in Naarm/Melbourne, July 2024.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 02/04/2025

FAIR RATES FOR FREELANCERS AT NINE 🧵 I first wrote for The Age in 2019. I was paid about 50c per word - half the rate that the paper was paying freelancers back in the early 2000s.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 02/04/2025

Freelance journos shoulder growing personal and political risks while our pay has been declining for decades - sign the petition today demanding that Nine resume negotiations for minimum rates and a collective freelance agreement! @withmeaa.bsky.social www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...

Freelancers at Nine are being paid 59% less in real terms than 20 years ago.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 31/03/2025

I'm at the Melbourne rally now and MEAA is the only labour union with flags here as far as I can see. So necessary given the harm of media disinfo - as one sign here says, "a lot of journos have our blood on their hands"

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 28/03/2025

aw I got blocked by a big account (@trans) just for challenging their weird racist fantasy! I guess Bsky is all grown up ☺️

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 20/03/2025

So exciting to award the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction to this wonderful memoir of working-class lesbian artist mother teacher life. The fish, the parties, the shit in the boot, all of it. Hope now more of you read this cuz I've been itching to talk about it for months!

Writer Susan Hampton (centre) with nonfiction judges Jinghua Qian and Ben Brooker.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 19/03/2025

a judgemental supper (impossible to take a group photo with literary types, everyone's too busy yapping to look at the camera!)

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 19/03/2025

It's the VPLAs! Where's the cheese though?

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 12/03/2025

The Newcastle Herald also ran the anti-trans ad but later apologised and removed it from its digital edition. Nine has yet to respond publicly to a formal complaint from its staff.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 07/03/2025

Ugh I missed the CDS machine opening hours, also the machine has opening hours?

"This machine is currently closed" screen

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 07/03/2025

it's no one else's job to remind you that other countries exist. yes, you should consider that your context is not universal before you engage on "a global platform"

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 06/03/2025

Buckle up Bsky, I have a really boring story that I simply must share

Two bottles of full cream milk and a milk frother on a kitchen bench

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 06/03/2025

I don't dislike Wicked but that's not why I paint my nails green. I have green nails to match my furniture and snacks and sheets and surroundings

grass green toenails on grass, palm trees

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 08/02/2025

Huge turnout to protect trans youth in Melbourne today! It's just one of 20 rallies across the country this weekend for the National Day of Action calling for the Qld govt to reinstate access to gender-affirming health care for people under 18.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 03/02/2025

the ABC reckons it didn't do a racism because it's not proven that there is "a Lebanese Arab or Middle Eastern race". fucking incredible. this is the kind of arse-backward mental contortion Austracism excels at www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Mr Fagir said the ABC's lawyers have indicated that they will argue she was not discriminated against on the basis of her race because the applicant had not proved that there was such a thing as "a Lebanese Arab or Middle Eastern race".

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 28/01/2025

oh oops I missed the 年糕 which is the main thing. also the dish on the left is one my mum remembered her dad making and I don't think I've ever had it before, I'm not sure if it's Toisanese but she said it's called 双冬（冬菇 + 冬笋）

a lot of Shanghainese dishes on a plastic tablecloth

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 28/01/2025

happy new year everyone 🐍🏮🐍🧧🐍❤️🐍🏮🐍

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 20/01/2025

yet CNN and The Age immediately euphemise it as an "odd-looking salute" that is "not something you would typically see at American political rallies". The Age doesn't bother to explain the Nazi symbology and avoids even using the words "Nazi" or "fascist"

Screenshot of The Age headline: Musk gives 'odd-looking salute' to Trump party

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 15/01/2025

astonishingly, Ellery told the ABC this reporting discourages women from taking risks: "It's interesting, why female journalists are focusing on these female entrepreneurs failing." girl, I just don't think stealing from the migrant women who actually make your clothes is a "risk" you get to take

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 15/01/2025

now and then I wonder what fashion designer Kym Ellery is doing after declaring insolvency owing her suppliers $2.6 million (exposed in Bri Lee's 2023 investigation). garment makers remain unpaid but Kym is living in what @financialtimes.com calls the "most talked-about apartment in Paris"

Ellery with her family in front of a midcentury Marzio Cecchi sofa (valued anywhere from $30,000 to $500,000 from a quick scan of auction sites)

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 13/01/2025

I haven't figured out what I'm doing with my socials and I'm not quite ready to go cold turkey so I guess Bsky is going to get my Cheaper Buy Miles reviews now. This $1 can of Warheads lemon soda was decently sour but somehow less exciting than I'd imagined. Just like a sour Solo.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 09/01/2025

my freezer always has pies, 3-5 types of ice cream, peas, green beans, corn, edamame, prawns, squid or fish, mince, raspberries, blueberries, and ice. used to always have frozen lasagna too. when people talk about putting bread in the freezer I'm like... I think we have different lives

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 19/12/2024

I found out today that the Big Merino in Goulburn got moved a few years ago and now my new year's resolution is to enter 2025 with the smug self-assuredness of a 97-tonne concrete ram riding a tiny "oversize" truck

Worrying photo of a truck carrying a ram about 3 times its size. The ram looks majestic.

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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 17/12/2024

spotted on Amazon today: when businesses think they can skimp on hiring a human translator/copywriter/proofreader

Images of a spray bottle showing it can be used for olive oil, soy sauce, jealousy or cooking wine.

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