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Nour Haydar

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Host and Senior Producer @australia.theguardian.com Full Story Podcast | Former Federal Political Reporter | Opinions Mine

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
And ICYMI, this more recent interview with @nourhaydar.bsky.social, recorded yesterday. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Randa Abdel-Fattah speaks to Nour Haydar about the Adelaide festival – podcast
A week after the Adelaide festival disinvited Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from its writers’ week, organisers have issued a complete and unreserved apology to the Palestinian Australian writer. She speaks to...
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Nauru president floats returning NZYQ refugees to home countries, in interview Australia tried to suppress www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Nauru president floats returning NZYQ refugees to home countries, in interview Australia tried to suppress
In an interview kept secret since February, David Adeang wrongly stated the people Australia has begun deporting to his country are not refugees
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The Guardian 🤖 - Northern Territory (unofficial) @theguardian-nt.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Protests on an outback road in the Northern Territory have refocused attention on Pine Gap, the secretive US satellite base near Alice Springs. The protesters have tried to block workers from accessing the facility, which they claim is aiding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Nour Haydar speaks with seni…
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The rising resistance to Pine Gap - podcast
Protests on an outback road in the Northern Territory have refocused attention on Pine Gap, the secretive US satellite base near Alice Springs. The protesters have tried to block workers from accessing the facility, which they claim is aiding Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Nour Haydar speaks with seni…
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Looking forward to hosting the 2025 Sydney Peace Prize Lecture next month. Jurist and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will be in Sydney to accept the award this year. 👇🏽
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The ABC’s new “public comment guidelines” created in response to Lattouf’s legal case have been released: www.abc.net.au/about/plans-... Staff have also been sent an additional note which warns that “even disclosing a comment to one person may be sufficient to breach the standards”.
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Very important and powerful interview by @nourhaydar.bsky.social today on Israel's killing of journalists in Gaza www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Al Jazeera’s managing editor on Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza – podcast
Al Jazeera’s managing editor, Mohamed Moawad, tells Nour Haydar why al-Sharif refused to leave Gaza, even though ‘he knew this day would come’
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Art Spell @artspell.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Today’s Editor’s Pick is 'Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Venice Biennale representative after independent review into dumping' by @nourhaydar.bsky.social and @burke-guardian.bsky.social for @theguardian.com.
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Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Venice Biennale representative after independent review into dumping
Artist says Creative Australia’s decision renews his confidence in integrity of body’s selection process
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
THREAD 💭 Yesterday, after 24 hours of silence, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stood in the Blue Room and publicly backed US President Donald Trump’s bombing of Iranian uranium enrichment facilities. He said Iran mustn’t be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon and “we support action to prevent that”
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Former minister now backbencher Ed Husic says the Albanese govt “can and should be doing more” on Gaza. Says: - Israeli ambassador should be called in & more aid demanded - financial aid should be ramped up - prepare targeted sanctions on Israeli leaders www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Australia has a proud history of standing up against human catastrophe. Gaza should be no exception | Ed Husic
We can and should be doing more to help the two million Palestinians struggling to survive
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
It is frustrating to hear UN commissioner, Chris Sidoti, say it may take until the end of the year to release their determination of genocide in Gaza however I really appreciated this in depth conversation from @nourhaydar.bsky.social on today’s Full Story.
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News Podcast · Updated Daily · Guardian Australia's daily news podcast. Every weekday, join Guardian journalists for a deeper understanding of the news in Australia and beyond. You can support The Gua...
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 24/04/2025
How will Gaza influence votes this election? | Fiona Katauskas
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How will Gaza influence votes this election? | Fiona Katauskas
Some candidates don’t want to mention the war * See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“Assuming home values from here climb in line with the Reserve Bank’s inflation rate target of 2.5%, and wages grow by 3.5% a year, it will take 70 years… to push the house price-to-income ratio back down to 6.5.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australians could be waiting more than 70 years for affordable housing if prices follow path pushed by major parties
Labor and the Coalition have launched policies to tackle the crisis, but they shied away from the idea of falling house prices
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Put aside 30 mins today to listen to this. It’s my interview with British-Australian doctor Mohammed Mustafa who recently returned from Gaza where he had volunteered at Al Ahli hospital. You’ll want to listen to this one in quiet and private. open.spotify.com/episode/6hKH...
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Bearing witness in Gaza: an Australian doctor returns
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/04/2025
State department staff told to report colleagues for ‘anti-Christian bias’
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State department staff told to report colleagues for ‘anti-Christian bias’
Department seeks instances of bias, with emphasis on Christianity, that may have occurred under Biden
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A Department of Homeland Security media representative told the Guardian Australia that the department “cannot answer questions on something we cannot verify the veracity of”. “Just like I cannot confirm the existence of big foot.”
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Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial
Man who says he had previously left and re-entered the country multiple times alleges border officials called him ‘retarded’ and boasted ‘Trump is back in town’
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Miles P Herbert @milespherbert.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The climate has been conspicuously absent from the conversations dominating our politics. @nourhaydar.bsky.social , @adammorton.bsky.social , and @patrickkeneally.bsky.social jumped on the microphones this week and tried to change that:
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Newsroom edition: the climate crisis has disappeared from the election agenda - podcast
Nour Haydar talks with deputy editor Patrick Keneally and climate and environment editor Adam Morton about the consequences of climate action fading from the election campaign
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Grassroots Labor members are ramping up internal pressure on the government over its positions on the Middle East and Aukus, urging Anthony Albanese to make two major foreign policy shifts if he wins a second term. @danjb.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Gaza and Aukus nuclear sub deal divide Labor and grassroots groups
Exclusive: Labor Friends of Palestine and Labor Against War ramp up internal pressure on Albanese government over major foreign policy positions
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/04/2025
‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of Gaza paramedics
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‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of Gaza paramedics
Relatives who waited agonising week before bodies were found speak of passion that drove Red Crescent workers • Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again Gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a civilian now that Israeli forces have resumed their military campaign with even more ferocity, but for the first responders who rush towards the wreckage of bombed buildings, the risks are multiplied many times over. The 15 paramedics and rescue workers whose bodies were found last weekend in a bulldozed pit outside Rafah knew they were putting their lives in peril to try to save others, but they could not have been prepared for what awaited them in the early hours of 23 March. Continue reading...
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Such a heartbreaking interview this one... "We are storytellers..." (All Oz storytellers should weep at the course of events in the Sabsabi affair...and that it was simply allowed to stand...)
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 02/04/2025
Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say
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Palestinian paramedics shot by Israeli forces had hands tied, eyewitnesses say
Senior doctor who saw bodies says men appeared to have been ‘executed’, adding to evidence of potential war crime Some of the bodies of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, killed by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave nine days ago in Gaza, were found with their hands or legs tied and had gunshot wounds to the head and chest, according to two eyewitnesses. The witness accounts add to an accumulating body of evidence pointing to a potentially serious war crime on 23 March, when Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance crews and civil defence rescue workers were sent to the scene of an airstrike in the early hours of the morning in the al-Hashashin district of Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city. Continue reading...
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Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“It’s actually dismantling my career, but also more broadly, anyone else’s career who may possibly engage with critically towards a political position or a political opinion.” Big respect to Khaled Sabsabi on the integrity and ethics of his work: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Khaled Sabsabi says Creative Australia decision was ‘kneejerk’ reaction that is ‘dismantling’ his career
Exclusive: Lebanese-Australian artist says ‘nobody should have to go through this torture’ in first interview since being dumped from Venice Biennale exhibition
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Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Big respect to @nourhaydar.bsky.social on this important, sensitive, thorough interview. Be sure to listen to the recording to hear Khaled’s own voice on what it means to be an Australian artist in today’s Australia.
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NEW: Artist Khaled Sabsabi has blamed Creative Australia for the “dismantling” of his career and said the board’s decision to revoke his appointment as Australia’s Venice Biennale representative has given the green light for others to smear his reputation. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Khaled Sabsabi says Creative Australia decision was ‘kneejerk’ reaction that is ‘dismantling’ his career
Exclusive: Lebanese-Australian artist says ‘nobody should have to go through this torture’ in first interview since being dumped from Venice Biennale exhibition
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
In his first interview since being dumped as Australia’s representative for the Venice Biennale, I sat down with artist Khaled Sabsabi to discuss the damage done by Creative Australia, and the furore over two historical works. Listen here 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1L0w...
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Exclusive: Khaled Sabsabi speaks on the damage of being dumped from the Venice Biennale
Full Story · Episode
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Labor capitulated to Coalition demands and agreed to mandatory minimum jail sentences in large part because of this “fake terrorism plot”. Now we have laws that Labor’s own national platform says won’t reduce crime, undermine the judiciary, and lead to discriminatory outcomes
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Seized, settled, let: how Airbnb and Booking help Israelis make money from stolen Palestinian land www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Seized, settled, let: how Airbnb and Booking.com help Israelis make money from stolen Palestinian land
As Israel deploys tanks in the West Bank for the first time in 20 years, we reveal how two of the world’s biggest travel companies are helping settlers commercialise stolen land
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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly Via: @nourhaydar.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia
Exclusive: Pacific Indigenous art collective claims NGA cited ‘high level’ security risk in direction to remove Palestinian flag from tapestry
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly.
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‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia
Exclusive: Pacific Indigenous art collective claims NGA cited ‘high level’ security risk in direction to remove Palestinian flag from tapestry
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MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Media release: Artistic and creative organisations across Australia must reaffirm their commitment to freedom of expression following a series of interventions over the past 12 months which have resulted in artists being silenced or sidelined. meaa.io/3CYDkg5
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Arts Minister Tony Burke made some remarks earlier this week about Creative Australia’s decision to ditch Lebanese Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi as the pick for the 61st Venice Biennale. They didn’t get much coverage but I can’t get them out of my head. So here you go.
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
NEW: Members of an Independent panel involved in the selection of Khaled Sabsabi have broken their silence. They say they’re deeply concerned about the decision to rescind his appointment, and have called for transparency from Creative Australia’s Board. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Panel that recommended Sabsabi for Venice Biennale ‘deeply concerned’ by Creative Australia pulling artist
Exclusive: Backlash comes as 3,000 artists, curators, writers and academics sign petition calling for reinstatement
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Creative Australia has announced a review into the selection process that took place for the 2026 Venice Biennale. For clarity, this is not a review of what has transpired over the last week - but rather a review into how Khaled Sabsabi was selected.
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
“To be selected as the artist and curator team to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale is considered the ultimate exhibition for an artistic team. To have your selection rescinded… is without precedent.” theconversation.com/a-shameful-c...
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‘A shameful call by Creative Australia’: the arts community reacts to Khaled Sabsabi being dropped from the Venice Biennale
Creative Australia has said artist Khaled Sabsabi will no longer represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. The artistic community has condemned this decision.
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Jane Howard @janeannehoward.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Nour, @nourhaydar.bsky.social, has been leading the coverage today. Amazing work. Also listen to her podcast from last week when everything was hopeful www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘Art should not be censored’: Khaled Sabsabi responds to cancellation of Venice Biennale project
The Lebanese Australian artist, and curator Michael Dagostino say they are ‘extremely hurt’ by Creative Australia’s decision
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Yesterday Federal Arts Minister Tony Burke publicly said he was “shocked” by some Khaled Sabsabi’s work. Hours later he was dumped. In a statement to Guardian Australia this evening Minister Burke said he “did not” direct the decision taken by Creative Australia.
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Scott Mitchell @scottmitchell.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This story is massive and atm there’s one piece out there that nails it. What’s happening today is going to have ramifications for Australian art and speech for a long time. Read @nourhaydar.bsky.social’s reporting on it. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘Art should not be censored’: Khaled Sabsabi responds to cancellation of Venice Biennale project
The Lebanese Australian artist, and curator Michael Dagostino say they are ‘extremely hurt’ by Creative Australia’s decision
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
#BREAKING All five artistic teams shortlisted for the 61st Venice Biennale have released a joint statement in support of winning duo Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino who were dumped by Creative Australia following media and political pressure. The group calls for them to be reinstated.
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Just a week after announcing award-winning Lebanese Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi as Australia’s pick for the 2026 Venice Biennale, Creative Australia has capitulated to media and political pressure and dumped him.
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Labor MP Ed Husic has questioned why ABC lawyers raised (then withdrew) a legal argument requiring Antoinette Lattouf to prove the existence of the Lebanese/Arab/Middle Eastern race. “I think it's reasonable to expect better,” he says on ABC Afternoon Briefing. “Why raise it in the first place?”
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Former ABC chair Ita Buttrose audibly laughs in federal court when asked if it was her practice to wish ABC employees would come down with respiratory illnesses. “That was just a face saving idea… it’s an easy way to save face” Buttrose says.
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This exchange encapsulates so much of what is wrong with the media: Former ABC Chair Ita Buttrose describes Antoinette Lattouf as “an activist”. “What was the view that Ms Lattouf had Ms Buttrose?” Lattouf’s lawyer asks. “I think she was critical of Israel” Buttrose says.
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino have been chosen as the artist team to represent Australia at the 61st Venice Biennale. Listen to our extended interview with Khaled Sabsabi on Full Story tomorrow 🎧
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Khaled Sabsabi never imagined he would be selected to represent Australia at the world’s oldest and most prestigious contemporary art exhibition – let alone in the current political climate. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Khaled Sabsabi to represent Australia at Venice Biennale: ‘I felt this wouldn’t happen because of who I am’
The western Sydney artist, who fled Lebanon’s civil war as a child, has been selected to represent Australia at the world’s oldest and most prestigious exhibition
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Calum Jaspan @caljaspan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
NEW: ABC staff furious over broadcaster’s legal position on ‘race’ www.smh.com.au/business/com...
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ABC staff furious over broadcaster’s legal position on ‘race’
Around 250 employees at the public broadcaster have passed a resolution demanding explicit acceptance from ABC management that it will not require proof it is possible to be racist to a Lebanese, Arab...
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MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The ABC must commission an independent inquiry into the broadcaster’s independence from outside interference and apologise for allowing external pressure to influence the dismissal of Antoinette Lattouf and attempts to have other journalists sacked. buff.ly/4hCtsaM #MEAAmedia
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Let me get this straight. The President of the US - Australia’s closest ally - has vowed to “take over” Gaza and is in effect backing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and Australia’s PM has offered no comment or condemnation other than this.
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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Being sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians, and sharing the injustices committed by Israel are not at odds with being a journalist or good journalism. Our industry often awards/elevates journalists who speak unashamedly on human rights & social justice issues
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