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Kate Emery

@kateemery.bsky.social
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Journo and author of The Not So Chosen One, My Family And Other Suspects/The Dysfunctional Family’s Guide to Murder and A Murder Is Going Down (out November).

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
hang this in the louvre (there's room now)
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 20/10/2025
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/10/2025
The commander-in-chief is not ok. read @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay
Trump put on a disturbing show for America’s generals and admirals.
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Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🌟 Not sure what to read next? This list of 70 exciting new young adult books being published in October 2025 might be a great place to start! 🌟 popgoesthereader.com/hot-off-the-... #BookSky #YALit #KidLit
Ten book covers of young adult books being published in October 2025. Books featured include The Leaving Room, The Dysfunctional Family's Guide To Murder, Mint To Be, The Siren and The Star, No Charm Done, The Devouring Light, The Library of Lost Girls, A Curious Kind of Magic, And The River Drags Her Down and Zodiac Legacy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2025
Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
“Twenty years ago Russian president Vladimir Putin had a popular TV puppet show cancelled because it made fun of him…” You can read the rest of my column for The Sunday Times here: thewest.com.au/news/social/...
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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NIMBYs win in South Perth tree battle very disappointing
It’s disappointing to see council prioritise the desires of a handful of wealthy residents concerned about their future bank balance over the city’s urban tree canopy.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 01/07/2025
Scientists once thought Antarctica might hold onto its sea ice as the world warmed. No longer.
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‘Completely unexpected’: Antarctic sea ice may be in terminal decline due to rising Southern Ocean salinity
Scientists once thought Antarctica might hold onto its sea ice as the world warmed. No longer.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 17/06/2025
"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
“Hope Greta and her friends can swim!” That’s US politician Lindsey Graham fantasising about Israel sinking a ship carrying climate activist Greta Thunberg and attempting to breach Gaza’s aid blockade. thewest.com.au/news/social/...
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Who’s afraid of Greta Thunberg? Why does she anger people?
‘Hope Greta and her friends can swim!’ That’s senior US politician Senator Lindsey Graham fantasising about Israel sinking a ship carrying climate activist Greta Thunberg.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This is brilliant from Tegan Bennett Daylight. There's at least 1 of these men at every event/book signing. It took me till my 50s to snap. The lurker waited to the end & said rudely, 'You've improved'. I said: 'I don't care what you think'. He was flabbergasted. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Flipping the bird at an old man wasn’t exactly in my playbook. It felt like a rupture | Tegan Bennett Daylight
Author Tegan Bennett Daylight had spent a life listening to men’s stories and opinions about her. In a quiet library one day, she had enough
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Barber: A would be king has ordered U.S. troops to occupy Los Angeles and parade down the streets of Washington DC. We are here to say that is not who we are
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest
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CNN @cnn.com · 13/06/2025
JUST IN: Federal judge blocks Trump executive order that requires proof of US citizenship to vote and limits mail-in ballots
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Federal judge blocks Trump executive order that requires proof of US citizenship to vote and limits mail-in ballots | CNN Politics
A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday blocked part of President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to revamp how elections are run in the United States.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/06/2025
Newsom: "He's been a stone cold liar about what he said we talked about. He never discussed the National Guard. Period. Full stop. I would love to share with you what he actually talked about. It would send shivers up your spine."
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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Frankly being a wheelchair user around these kinds of cars is absolutely terrifying because judging by the amount of near misses I’ve had with land rovers they clearly can’t see me. I fundamentally do not understand why we allow cars to get more and more dangerous for non-drivers!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/06/2025
Terrible Gallup poll today. Lots of bad anti-trans sentiment, but this one really blew my mind and should be VERY eye opening to our LGB folks: America is about to cross back over into being gay or lesbian is something that is caused externally (and therefore "fixable" with conversion therapy)
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
There are some debates best put to rest for good. thewest.com.au/opinion/kate...
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Why working from home is here to stay
KATE EMERY: Employers that insist on being able to see the whites of their employees eyes five days a week without justification might soon get a view of their other end instead.
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The passive voice is getting a real workout in headlines today, huh?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Breaking:   WASHINGTON (AP) - Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
LAPD firing impact munitions at Los Angelenos while DHS arrests their neighbors.
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
HAPPENING NOW: Protesters are not backing down in their clash with ICE agents over raid operations in the Los Angeles area 📍Paramount, CA
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
A really interesting bit on the latest Media Watch about how (incorrect) claims about a trans child athlete got blown way out of proportion: www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...
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Ep 17 - Jumping the gun - Media Watch
A front page story about a transgender child at a sports carnival filled with errors.
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Dads. They get a hard time sometimes. thewest.com.au/opinion/good...
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Why dads should choose to be like Bluey’s Bandit father
Dads. They get a hard time sometimes.
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The number of Australian men who admit to intimate partner violence, from emotional abuse to physical attacks, has risen to one in three, the biggest study of its kind has revealed. thewest.com.au/news/wa/stud...
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1 in 3 Aussie men now admit to intimate partner violence
The number of Australian men who admit to intimate partner violence, from emotional abuse to physical attacks, has risen to one in three, the biggest study of its kind has revealed.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/06/2025
The 12-person crew, which includes climate activist Greta Thunberg, expects to take seven days to reach Gaza.
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Aid ship aiming to break Israel’s siege of Gaza sets sail from Italy
The 12-person crew, which includes climate activist Greta Thunberg, expects to take seven days to reach Gaza.
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TuckFrump @asstastik.com · 28/05/2025
Gaza influencer, 11, among dozens of children killed by recent Israeli strikes | First Thing #TheGuardian #NoFakeNews www.theguardian.com/...
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Gaza influencer, 11, among dozens of children killed by recent Israeli strikes | First Thing
Yaqeen Hammad is one of dozens of minors killed by Israeli attacks. Plus, US faces another summer of extreme heat
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/05/2025
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war in Gaza is genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire. “The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or human rights organizations,” reads the letter, which was also signed by William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Kate Mosse, Irvine Welsh and Elif Shafak. Continue reading...
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Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The medical evidence review, published by the Department of Be Careful What You Wish For.... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Utah study on trans youth care extremely inconvenient for politicians who ordered it
The state's ban on gender-affirming pediatric care "cannot be justified" by science, a two-year review concluded.
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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
It’s astonishing how misunderstood this is: AI is currently theft. That’s it. It’s that simple. And until it pays, it remains theft.
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Simon Brew @simonbrew.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.
A headline from The Times, with Nick Clegg saying that requiring permission from copyright holders to train AI on their word would 'kill' the AI industry. Boo fecking hoo.
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I guess someone WAS better in the bedroom? thewest.com.au/business/ret...
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WA’s Bedshed hit with $40k fine over ‘false claims’
WA bedding and mattress retailer Bedshed has been slapped with a fine for allegedly claiming its products have been approved by the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
In today’s West Australian I’m talking about smartphones and kids. Did I film this cringey to camera but in my phone on the walk home from school drop-off? This is multi-tasking, baby! #36months #buythepaper
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John Flint @flinty01.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
My story: thewest.com.au/news/health/...
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Rogue dentist’s patients in pain and heavily out of pocket
The dentist at the centre of a scandal involving 132 dumped and desperate patients had been ordered to undertake education by the industry regulator in 2021 following complaints about his work.
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Very very shocked and chuffed to have my cosy crime book MY FAMILY AND OTHER SUSPECTS take out the ABIA award for best YA book for 13+ this week. It’s an utter joy to find people getting such a kick out of a very WA murder mystery.
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Freshly re-elected Curtin Teal independent Kate Chaney has called the Liberal Party’s decision to choose Scott Morrison to lead it over Julie Bishop a “sliding doors” moment that alienated many women voters. thewest.com.au/politics/fed...
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Re-elected Kate Chaney reflects on “sliding doors moment”
Freshly re-elected Curtin Teal independent Kate Chaney has called the Liberal Party’s decision to choose Scott Morrison to lead it over Julie Bishop a “sliding doors” moment that alienated many women ...
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Finally someone prepared to answer tough political questions ahead of Kate Chaney’s (celebratory) press conference in Scarborough today. #fedpols
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Teal independent Kate Chaney said the Liberal Party needs to realise it has moved “too far to the right”, as she waited to learn if she has successfully fought off the Liberal Party’s attempt to reclaim the key western suburbs seat of Curtin. thewest.com.au/politics/fed...
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
“I can only vow that the first softball coach who demands to see inside either of daughters’ knickers before they can join the team will be acquainted with a new and exciting use for that bat.” My column in The West Australian about bathroom bans and slippery slopes. thewest.com.au/opinion/kate...
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Kate Emery: Bathroom bans are bad for all women
Do we really want a future where a person needs to pull down their pants before they’re allowed to use the ladies?
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
If it sounds like I recorded this in a wind tunnel it’s because I’m in sunny Quindanning for the annual picnic races.
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Generation Z has found their Rocky Horror Picture Show and it is a film with mixed reviews based on a 14-year-old computer game. thewest.com.au/news/social/...
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Is the Minecraft movie Gen-Zs Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Generation Z has found their Rocky Horror Picture Show and it is a poorly reviewed film based on a 14-year-old computer game about cubes.
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Perth Breakfast & Brunch goes to Perth City Farm in East Perth for a relaxing brunch. youtube.com/shorts/QRSMB... #perthbreakfast #perthbrunch #perthfood #perthfoodies #perth #perthcoffee #perthcafes #perthisok
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Perth Breakfast & Brunch goes to Perth City Farm in East Perth for a relaxing brunch
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Forever Madmartigan in my heart. #ValKilmer
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The head of one of Perth’s most prestigious private boys schools has been criticised for suggesting a hit TV show about the dangers of the online “manosphere” may be “boy bashing”. thewest.com.au/news/educati...
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Hale headmaster links TV show to ‘boy bashing’
The headmaster of one of Perth’s most prestigious private boys schools used his latest school newsletter to question what message Netflix’s show Adolescence might send boys.
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
At the turn of the century you couldn’t watch a movie without sitting through a now-notorious public service announcement about film piracy. (My West Australian column) thewest.com.au/opinion/kate...
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US billionaires are stealing Aussie books
At the turn of the century you couldn’t watch a movie without sitting through a now-notorious public service announcement about film piracy.
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NPR @npr.org · 29/03/2025
A top vaccine advisor at the FDA was forced to resign on Friday. In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks, wrote "truth and transparency are not desired," by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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The top FDA vaccine official is forced out, cites RFK Jr.'s 'misinformation and lies'
A top vaccine advisor at the FDA was forced to resign on Friday. In his resignation letter, Dr. Peter Marks wrote "truth and transparency are not desired," by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Kate Emery @kateemery.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Surprise news out of the WA election. Controversial candidate Thomas Brough (who linked paeodophilia to the LGBTQI community) does NOT take the seat. thewest.com.au/news/albany-...
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Nats claim six seats as Scott Leary wins Albany
Scott Leary — a former Liberal Party candidate — has won the seat of Albany for the Nationals, getting the edge over the Liberal Party’s controversial nominee Thomas Brough.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Tenet (2020)
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