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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 02/10/2026
Shake it up
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 02/10/2026
Earthquake! Kinda fun
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 22/09/2026
Sanmati Verma in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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By fixating on immigration numbers, are our leaders missing the bigger picture for working Australians?
It can be tempting to blame grievance politics or the rise of One Nation for the tenor of current debate, but these are symptoms of a deeper malaise
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 18/09/2026
Noura Mansour from Democracy in Colour in Pearls & Irritations today johnmenadue.com/post/2026/09...
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Australia needs migration with dignity, not scapegoating and political panic
The government’s new migration measures tighten rules for students, visa overstayers and protection claims. A fair migration system should address genuine policy challenges without turning vulnerable ...
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 02/09/2026
"The ICJ has made it clear – keeping to 1.5C is not a choice, it is a legal obligation. Your corporate profits cannot be allowed to extinguish our future." - Vishal Prasad, from Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’
But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 25/08/2026
Hosting this housing webinar tomorrow: hear how they won rent control in Scotland and passed a referendum in Germany for privatised corporate rentals to be returned to public ownership events.humanitix.com/foundations-...
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Webinar | Foundations for housing justice: lessons from around the world
In the face of the global housing crisis, renters are building people power to win a future where everyone has a home.
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 19/08/2026
Report here: @withmeaa.bsky.social www.meaa.org/Public/Your_...
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Media Freelancers | MEAA
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 19/08/2026
One said: "I was earning better rates as a freelancer when I started freelancing in 1994 than I am being paid now.”
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 19/08/2026
MEAA's Media Freelancers Report 2026 finds: - 67% of freelancers earned less than $40,000 from the industry in the last 12 months - 81% of freelancers did work without payment of super in the last year - The proportion who derive their primary income from the media industry has fallen drastically
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Next DC data centre in west Footscray’s colloidal expansion is now impinging on not only neighbourhoods but also one of the few areas of natural wildlife in west Footscray, Stony Creek. Please sign amd share the petition objecting to its expansion.
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Sign the Petition
Object the expansion of NextDC Data Centre in West Footscray
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 23/07/2026
tianlezhang.substack.com/p/what-does-...
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What does the Chinese Internet think about Sally Rooney's novels?
I.
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 18/07/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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Footage shows Australian man handcuffed by ICE agents in Las Vegas airport
The 57-year-old was later arrested for overstaying his Visa and is currently detained at an ICE processing centre in California.
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 14/07/2026
Australia doesn't deserve us 💔
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 14/07/2026
Australia doesn't deserve you 💕
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 03/07/2026
First 100 days of Ukraine war: 262 child deaths, 4223 mentions on CNN, 1775 on MSNBC. First 100 days in Gaza: 10,000+ child deaths, 3632 mentions on CNN, 1522 on MSNBC. findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/news/153137-...
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Friday essay: How to Sell a Genocide exposes the double standards of reporting on Gaza : Find an Expert : The University of Melbourne
Authors: Jeff Sparrow
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 03/07/2026
I usually do "Prof" for flights but I managed to get "The" on my super which is actually my preferred title over Mx anyway - but only available by accident
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 03/07/2026
It's been 13 years since the federal govt published guidelines recommending that where forms ask for gender, individuals should have the option to select M, F or X. Yet I still have to select Mr, Ms, Mrs, Miss or Dr for my super account and most flight bookings
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 03/07/2026
Melbourne - 3CR is celebrating 50 years tomorrow! Come! It's free (but if you have $ please donate to keep everyone's fave radio station on air!) www.3cr.org.au/news/invitat...
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Invitation to our 50th birthday
Our big birthday event approaches! We're celebrating 50 years on Saturday 4 July 11am-4pm at the Collingwood Town Hall. It’s free and you can RSVP here. There’ll be stalls, music, food, activities, a ...
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 30/06/2026
arrrgggh I changed my name legally 6 months ago yet in mygov half my accounts are still in my dead English name and I have been stuck in a loop for months trying to change them FML
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 29/06/2026
hopefully this Moira Deeming debacle helps people see that anti-trans campaigners define gender much as they apparently define "headlock" - in a convoluted, nonsensical conspiracy at odds with what most people simply and compassionately understand
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 23/06/2026
Stop the closure of Footscray's Foley House supported accommodation for older men! c.org/VGtYnHpjwD
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Sign the Petition
Stop the closure of Foley House supported accommodation!
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 28/05/2026
God damn this aggravating country that unfortunately is where nearly everyone I love lives
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 28/05/2026
Hello, if your instinct is to organise an all-white panel about the rise of the far right, have you considered ... not? Please just go sit down and eat your toast
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women Australia @nionwomenaus.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Not in our Name! 💗🗣️ We are women from every corner of society, united in support of the trans community. We refuse to allow our experiences to be weaponised against other women and marginalized people. We refuse to stay silent. READ AND SIGN our open letter👇 #NotInOurNameAus #NOINAus
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Not in our Name Women Australia
We are women from every corner of society - mothers, daughters, friends, sisters, grandmothers, partners, colleagues, caregivers and leaders - united in rejecting the discrimination and exclusion of t...
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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 26/05/2026
Angus Taylor's attempts to draw a clear dividing line between "deserving" citizens and "undeserving" non-citizens will fail because no such line can be drawn. Thank you @byjackrevell.bsky.social for including this vital perspective and context. READ: www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
For Jinghua Qian, no amount of economic benefit migrants provide will ever be sufficient for politicians determined to divide the population by race.

The 39-year-old told SBS News they didn't much think about the loss of Chinese citizenship when they arrived in Australia as a child in 1996.

"I am Australian, that's just reality, it's not an aspiration," they said.

"At the same time, I know that in the eyes of Angus Taylor and his ilk, I'll always be a migrant no matter how long I've been here. I'll only ever be conditionally Australian.

"Because this is not really about citizenship — it's about race. There's nothing I can give up — not my nationality, not my language or culture — that will make me an Australian without caveat, without an asterisk."

They note that the renouncing of citizenship in exchange for security in Australia is not simply about identity but has many practical implications too.

"When my granddad died, I couldn't just book the first affordable flight to go to his funeral, I had to go to the visa office with a copy of his death certificate," they said.
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 29/04/2026
"Murdering innocent civilians, including small children and infants, was absolutely central to establishing the Great Australian Dream – home ownership on stolen land." www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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‘A white man’s fantasy’: if we want to rebuild social cohesion, we need to acknowledge where it all started to unravel
Australia has a serious problem with social cohesion, but it’s no good pretending it’s recent. Koori civilisation has been torn asunder ever since the convict ships dropped anchor
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 17/04/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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100 bombs in 10 minutes: Mapping Lebanon's 'Black Wednesday'
The Israel Defense Forces labelled it Operation Eternal Darkness. Inside Lebanon, it's now called Black Wednesday. ABC NEWS Verify has geolocated the explosions across 10 minutes of chaos.
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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Following the decision from the Board of the Adelaide Festival, The Australia Institute is withdrawing its support from this year’s literary festival. Here is our statement, and a personal one from me.
Statement from the Australia Institute withdrawing from Adelaide festival. Personal statement withdrawing from the Festival.
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi. A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
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Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I will be withdrawing from two panels I was to chair at Adelaide Writers Week 2026. I stand in solidarity with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, and other Palestinian Australian writers. I urge all writers to do the same. Watch out for statements from SA mob. www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...
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Adelaide Festival Board Statement
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Well, I was going to be on a panel at the Adelaide Writers' Festival but I'm not any more.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I stand with Randa and everyone standing against hate, genocide, oppression and terror. In all its forms.
Statement from the Australia Institute announcing its withdrawal of support and sponsored events from the Adelaide Writers’ Festival Statement from Amy Remeikis withdrawing from Adelaide Writers’ Festival
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Bianca Nogrady @biancanogrady.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
What Australian outlets edited out of the opening of Kerry O'Brien's Walkley Awards speech on press freedom: (The full speech is here: www.walkleys.com/dont-kid-you...)
A screenshot of a section of Kerry O'Brien's speech. 
This section is outlined in red, with the note 'Missing from The Age/SMH version: "First things first. It would be remiss of me not to refer specifically to the appalling and outrageous casualty list of Palestinian journalists and other media workers in Israel’s war on Gaza since the brutal attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens two years ago.
“Having excluded independent global media access inside Gaza, leaving us all to rely on local journalists to bear witness to the devastating effect of Israel’s bombardment on the civilian population of Gaza and the famine that has accompanied it, Israel has failed dismally to explain with any credibility why so many journalists have been killed.
“Importantly, what we should acknowledge tonight is the impact those Palestinian journalists have had in return for their sacrifice.
“They have confronted the world with powerful evidence that has gradually taken on the look and feel of genocide in real time—in our living rooms as well as the corridors of the UN and its agencies.
“It is significantly due to the courage and stubborn determination of those journalists that no reasonable citizen of the world has been able to look away. They and their surviving colleagues have provided an irresistible clarity of truth that has profoundly influenced global public opinion, to the point where even some close allies have been compelled to condemn the nature of Israel’s ongoing war, and declare their recognition of the State of Palestine."
This section is outlined in blue with the note 'Missing from the Guardian version': “They and their surviving colleagues have provided an irresistible clarity of truth that has profoundly influenced global public opinion, to the point where even some close allies have been compelled to condemn the nature of Israel’s ongoing war, and declare their recognition of the State of Palestine."
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 10/11/2025
women who are offended to be called people, gosh
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 23/09/2025
Voices Under Fire: Stories from Gaza Join me at this event on 6 November to bear witness to the lives of Gazans experiencing genocide.  For one night, we'll come together as a community to read the poetry and first-hand accounts of Palestinians who have had to flee their homeland, those who have…
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Voices Under Fire: Stories from Gaza
Join me at this event on 6 November to bear witness to the lives of Gazans experiencing genocide.  For one night, we'll come together as a community to read the poetry and first-hand accounts of Palestinians who have had to flee their homeland, those who have been martyred, and those who are still surviving the daily nightmare. All ticket sales will go to families currently in Gaza to help them buy food, medicine and other necessities.
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 29/08/2025
Fourth item in @meadea.bsky.social 's Weekly Beast column today which kinda shows how much China has fallen from the headlines! www.theguardian.com/media/commen...
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Family of Erin Patterson’s victims say mushroom trial media frenzy fed off their suffering | The Weekly Beast
Heather and Ian Wilkinson’s daughter says it is ‘revolting to experience our family’s tragedy being turned into entertainment’. Plus: Andrew Greene’s second chance
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 29/08/2025
Oh I missed this yesterday - ABC will finally have a China correspondent again, 5 years after Bill Birtles was forced out. Allyson Horn is the new Beijing corro. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Economic Media Centre - Australia. @economicmc.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Also we've got an online panel this Thursday on what the media landscape will look like leading up to the SA state election next year. Speakers are Pas Forgione (APNSA), Rebecca Tooher (@sacoss.bsky.social) and journo @waltermarsh.bsky.social Thu 28 Aug, 12-1pm SA time via Zoom, DM for the link
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Economic Media Centre - Australia. @economicmc.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Calling change-makers in Adelaide: We're running free media spokesperson training in Sept/Oct! Interested? Apply before Tue 26 Aug: www.tfaforms.com/4896630
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ECONOMIC MEDIA CENTRE TRAININGEXPRESSION OF INTEREST
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 20/08/2025
Adelaide folks, we're running free media spokesperson training in Sept/Oct! Interested? Apply before Tue 26 Aug: www.tfaforms.com/4896630
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 14/08/2025
Exclusive | Speakers are boycotting the Bendigo Writers Festival after receiving a code of conduct from event organisers that required “compliance” with a controversial definition of antisemitism.
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Writers boycott Bendigo Writers Festival for demanding 'compliance' with controversial antisemitism rule
Several notable speakers have already bowed out, with more set to follow, Crikey understands.
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 14/08/2025
I know many in the media and culture industries have been anxious watching the silencing and intimidation of workers who've spoken out for Palestine. I hope this video reassures you that you're supported by your comrades across the industry. Fight every way you can, hold strong together.
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 14/08/2025
In the time it took to edit this video, Israel killed 6 more Palestinian journalists from the Al Jazeera team. These are targeted attacks to stop the truth getting out, to kill all witnesses. The music here is 'Witness', composed by Connor D’Netto and performed by Jayson Gillham.
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 14/08/2025
Israel has killed 180 Palestinian journalists since Oct 2023. There are 120 of us in this video remembering our slain Palestinian colleagues - it's staggering to see so many faces and realise more than this number have been killed. #StopKillingJournalists #SanctionIsraelNow meaa.io/45A4vZ5
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Stop Killing Journalists
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Scott Mitchell @scottmitchell.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Over 100 journalists from every outlet you can think of are in this video. Journalists care about the truth and about our brave colleagues in Gaza. It's the bosses who have let us all down. Join your union.
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 14/08/2025
In the time it took to edit this video, Israel killed 6 more Palestinian journalists from the Al Jazeera team. Most of these are targeted killings to stop the truth getting out.
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 14/08/2025
Israel has killed 180 Palestinian journalists since Oct 2023. There are 120 of us in this video remembering our slain Palestinian colleagues - it's staggering to see so many faces and realise that more than this number of media workers have been killed. #StopKillingJournalists #SanctionIsraelNow
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Michael Slezak @mikeyslezak.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
One of the many devastating things about making this video was that we had to update it about three times during the making to account for further killings of journalists, including (you'll see at the end) a special mention of the 6 Al Jazeera journalists targeted by Israel. Please watch to the end.
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Jinghua Qian @jinghuaqian.com · 11/08/2025
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‘Complicity’ is an insufficient word: the violence of western media
The story of Palestinian author Mona Zahed and the violence of western media.
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