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Melissa Marsden

@melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social
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Freelance Journalist www.framingthenarrative.com PhD Candidate in Media Flinders University Political Junkie 👩‍🦯🏳️‍🌈

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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thanks to @independentaus.bsky.social for publishing my analysis piece for IDPwD #IDPwD #disability #media
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Better than nothing but for many Australians just not enough #auspol
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
A little late but it was great to write this piece on Jo Tarnawsky for @womensagenda.bsky.social #auspol
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Fantastic final observation from @markgkenny.bsky.social on #insiders #auspol
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
It was great to write this article on Paralympic para-equestrian Stella Barton for @powerdmedia.bsky.social #disability #paralympics #equestrian
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
My exclusive interview with South Australian Minister for Disability Nat Cook www.abilitynews.org/p/first-deta... #disability #ndis #auspol
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First detail from DRMC Meeting
Although South Australia is signing on to changes, Queensland now appears to be holding out for more GST reform
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Thanks to @independentaus.bsky.social for publishing my media analysis on the conclusion of The Project and QandA #independent #media #auspol #theprojecttv #insiders
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My latest article published in my role as Special Correspondent at AbilityNEWS on women’s disability sport #disability #sport #womenssport #WWBL www.abilitynews.org/p/wheelchair...
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Wheelchair basketball's scoring
With three new teams setting a record for the sport
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The Nationals are splitting from the coalition. What a time to be alive #auspol
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Bringing you your morning disability news with my latest article with abilityNEWS on Disability Sports Australia Strategic Plan www.abilitynews.org/p/game-on-bu... #sport #disability #participation #inclusion #strategicplan #disabilitysports #DisabilitySportsAustralia
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Game on: building disability sports
New partnership aims to get people with disability back in the game
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Larissa Waters is the new Greens Leader. Sarah Hanson-Young is sidelined again #auspol #greensspill
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
If Tim Wilson runs for the Liberal leadership and wins it will surely be historic #auspol #libspill
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I will admit I underestimated Ed Husic. His interview is brilliantly scathing #insiders #auspol
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Thanks to @womensagenda.bsky.social for publishing this piece on Ali France’s victory in Dickson on Saturday #election #auspol #disability womensagenda.com.au/latest/ali-f...
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Ali France makes history. What does it mean for disability representation?
Ali France becomes the first person with a disability elected to the House of Representatives in Australia. So what happens now?
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Thank you to my m editor @michellepini.bsky.social @independentaus.bsky.social for publishing this analysis of media disability media representation #disability #media #representation
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Very grateful to have @womensagenda.bsky.social publish my article on coercive control. This piece took three years to complete #auspol #women #genderviolence #coercivecontrol #domesticviolence
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
A reminder to followers to please subscribe to please my business page Framing the Narrative (link in bio). Thank you
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Thank you @independentaus.bsky.social for publishing this opinion piece on comments made by David Littleproud on Indigenous Australians #auspol
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Independent Member for Kooyong Monique Ryan is happy with candidates paying for content on social media without acknowledging that it’s paid #insiders #auspol
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
A great insult to young people made by Independent Member for Kooyong Monique Ryan to suggest they’re not watching insiders #insiders #auspol
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Thank you to Ability News for publishing this piece #auspol #disability #qanda www.abilitynews.org/p/the-power-...
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The power of a single human story
Tell your story well and you can make a difference
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Very happy that the South Australian government has made conversation therapy illegal #saparli #pride
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Thank you to Missing Perspectives for publishing my article on disability in the federal budget missingperspectives.com/posts/federa... #disability #budget #politics #media
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"Disability support services are not optional": Disability advocates respond to federal budget | Missing Perspectives
In Tuesday’s Federal Budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced that the government will set aside $424 million for Australians with a disability. However,
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Another budget lacking substance for people with disabilities. #auspol #disability
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Thank you to @womensagenda.bsky.social for publishing this article on Monday night’s Q&A program #auspol #media #disability #NDIS #qanda #abc
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I’d love to hear from Penny Wong on the Tasman sea missile event. #insiders #auspol
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
If Labor wanted to “strengthen Medicare and ease cost of living” they should put dental on Medicare. #auspol #insiders
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Having Dutton talk about intervention on supermarket prices is remarkable given the Libs free-market ideology #auspol #insiders
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Happy to know that Mark Butler called out the Coalition on supporting Pauline Hanson’s transphobic discourse #auspol
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Thank you to @independentaus.bsky.social for publishing my analysis of The Courier Mail’s representation of ALP Candidate for Dickson Ali France #auspol #disability #media
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Dutton’s election campaign has begun. Paraphrasing Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ with ‘Get Australia Back on Track’🙄 #auspol #usapol
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Michelle Redfern @michelleredfern.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Thank the goddess for Laura Tingle. After watching spud I now need to go scrub myself with a wire brush. #Insiders
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Thank you Laura Tingle for calling out the LNP for saying they’ll announce spending cuts AFTER the election. Sneaky and dishonest #insiders #auspol
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Peter Dutton says power bills have gone up by $1,000, they’ve definitely gone up but this needs #abc #factcheck #insiders #auspol
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
We have evolved so little, still clinging to a false narrative of Australia. I am privileged to have grown up on Peramangk land and to live on Kaurna country. To Aboriginal First Nations, thank you for sharing your culture and I’m sorry not enough people respect it. #NotaDaytoCelebrate #InvasionDay
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thank you to @independentaus.bsky.social @michellepini.bsky.social for publishing my analysis of media framing of disability in the LA fires #fires #disability #california
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Thank you to @ausindimedia.bsky.social for publishing this opinion piece on comments journalist Amy Remekis made on disability www.framingthenarrative.com/2025/01/14/a... [LINK TO MY WEBSITE] #disability #media #accessability
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
A fascinating and informative read from @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social #auspol #gaza #media
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Well I think BlueSky is waking up after the Christmas break! #bluesky #auspol
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Thank you to @independentaus.bsky.social for publishing this piece on changes to the NDIS #auspol #disability #ndis
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Excellent article by Managing Editor of @independentaus.bsky.social @michellepini.bsky.social #auspol #ausmedia #abc
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Thank you @independentaus.bsky.social for publishing my opinion piece on the social media ban #auspol #socialmediaban #bullying #children #online
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Independent Australia @independentaus.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The political reluctance to pardon Julian Assange for his so-called crimes shows a failure to uphold the truth and is a blight against democracy. Pardoning Assange a test for free speech and Australia's backbone ~ Vince Hooper independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
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Pardoning Assange a test for free speech and Australia's backbone
The political reluctance to pardon Julian Assange for his so-called crimes shows a failure to uphold the truth and is a blight against democracy.
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Thank you to Missing Perspectives for publishing this article on inclusive Christmas toys for children with disabilities missingperspectives.com/posts/christ... #christmas #inclusion #disability #media
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Christmas toys for children with disabilities: Mainstreaming or marginalising? | Missing Perspectives
"As a person who is legally blind myself, I would have loved a blind Barbie when I was a child. But what would make me even happier is if the children around me had received one and, consequently, bee...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Dutton said he boycotted the apology to the stolen generation because it was just symbolic… so now he wants to get rid of the major symbols of Indigenous Australians
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Thank you @independentaus.bsky.social for publishing this story on the recent Melbourne synagogue fire #auspol
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Without #insiders this morning who I am I going to yell at on the television before entering into an academic discussion about media/political bias and exclusionary discourse? #insiders #auspol #academia
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Excellent analysis by @independentaus.bsky.social Managing Editor @michellepini.bsky.social #auspol
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
While we’re on the topic of IDPwD and my published articles I would just like to apologise if anyone has gone to my website and been unable to read it without text-to-speech. Website technical issues.
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Melissa Marsden @melissamarsdenphd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Thank you to Missing Perspectives for publishing this article on the formidable @hannahdiviney.bsky.social National Press Club address! Soon to be available on my business page #NPC #disability #IDPwD missingperspectives.com/posts/hannah...
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“Disabled people deserve a place in every room”: Hannah Diviney addresses the National Press Club of Australia | Missing Perspectives
Actor and advocate Hannah Diviney told the National Press Club to “get out of my way” in a powerful speech in honour of the International Day of People with
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