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Suzanne Smith

@suzipeep.bsky.social
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Six-time Walkley Award winning journalist, writer and author of ‘The Altar Boys,’ - a powerful expose of clerical abuse cover-up. amzn.asia/d/2Lv0MuJ Fellow of the State Library of NSW. Maker of podcasts, long-form TV docos and digital stories.

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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Dear SMH, What happened to your motto; ‘Independent Always.’ The Wilcox cartoon regarding the clamour for a Royal Commission should not have caused an apology. Cartoonists play an important role in our democracy to spark debate and highlight issues that need broader considerations. CathyWilcox
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
When this blows over I might have to share some of the emails I’ve received over the days which really make me wonder why I am the one accused of hatred. There is deep unresolved trauma being spewed by some of these people and we cannot consent to living according to their warped reality.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Sign the open letter to Mark Zuckerberg demanding that Meta pays creative workers for the use of their content on Facebook and Instagram: www.meaa.org/stop-metas-a...
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Stop Meta’s AI theft - MEAA
Australians are worried about the rise of Artificial Intelligence, and they have every right to be. AI has turbocharged the proliferation of scams, deepfakes, disinformation and harmful content, while...
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Catholic Church tried to revive outlawed legal loophole in abuse case
An ABC investigation can reveal the Catholic Church tried to revive a highly controversial legal loophole that stopped it from being sued by victims of sexual abuse for millions of dollars in damages,...
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Corpsy @corpsepilot.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Our story tonight on the drive to stamp out cultish behaviour in Toowoomba Christian churches following the death of an eight year old girl. 630 pm ABC TV #Compass www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Child's death drives churches to call out cult-like behaviour
A campaign to educate people about the dangers of coercive control and cults begins in southern Queensland following the death of an eight-year-old girl.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Compass tomorrow night on @ABCaustralia 630 pm Our investigation into #TheSaints cult and the Christian churches tackling cultish behaviour in their communities. file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/11/01/8F697FE6-F702-40D3-B02A-439D39512DF3/ABC_Compass_ep2_wk10_30_MASTER.MOV
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-a...
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‘They’re so fired up’: The flagship ABC show taking on a deadly cult
The death of an eight-year-old girl was the trigger for this interrogation of a sect known as the Saints.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
My next investigation for Compass this Sunday on @abciview @abcaustralia The cult of the Saints. The aftermath of the tragic death of an eight year old girl by members of The Saints cult in Toowoomba. Plus it’s spurred Christians to expose coercive control. www.abc.net.au/religion/wat...
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Coming up: The Cult of the Saints - ABC Religion & Ethics
Coming up 6:30pm Sunday 10th August on ABC TV and anytime on ABC iview.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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Australian law is clear: criticism of Israel does not breach the Racial Discrimination Act
The Federal Court recently found it is not inherently antisemitic to criticise the state of Israel or the Israel Defense Forces.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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UNESCO approves World Heritage bid for rock art amid emissions concerns
The UNESCO has approved World Heritage status for the 50,000-year-old rock art of Murujuga, in Western Australia in Paris.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
open.spotify.com/album/3WUyr8... But this and the money goes to Radio Free Europe !!! Thanks REM ( they were defunded by Trump )
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Radio Free Europe 2025
R.E.M. · Single · 2025 · 5 songs
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
www.watoday.com.au/politics/wes...
watoday.com.au
Former WA Labor minister launches blistering attack on Woodside boss
In parliament on Wednesday night, Dave Kelly segued comments about climate change spending into an attack on Woodside boss Meg O’Neill.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Vale Audrey Nash.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Very sad news with the passing of Audrey Nash. One of the most courageous women I have ever met. She never faltered in her fight to get justice for the survivors of clerical sexual abuse in the Newcastle #Catholic diocese - including for her own son, Andrew. Her story is in my book #TheAltarBoys.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Redirecting...
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I played a very small role in tonight’s Compass on ABC TV about former Newcastle Anglican Bishop, Greg Thompson in Adelaide. His bravery and that of survivor, Steven Smith should not be forgotten. Anne Manne’s #CrimesoftheCross is worth a read on this dark history. Catch it on @abciview #Anglican
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The brave former Anglican Bishop of Newcastle - Greg Thompson - is on Compass now. Catch up on ABC Iview. Also featuring Steven Smith - who has campaigned for justice for survivors. Why does the Anglican Church treat him as outsider ? He stood up against clerical abuse cover up. #Anglican #Abuse
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Aussies …Make sure you check your electricity / energy bill for the $300 Federal Govt rebate ! My company had not passed it on !!!! “…..households are eligible for up to $300 of energy bill relief, and eligible small businesses may receive up to $325. @acccgovau #electricity
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
America is *so* stupid.
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 13/03/2025
A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...
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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Damn straight!
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Very scary to hear Elon Musk call people’s US social security funds, ‘entitlements.’ In the U.S people have to pay into the scheme over years with THEIR OWN MONEY. It’s their money. Get your greedy hands off it. You are taking it to justify your tax cut.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Bravo. In the SMH today.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Update : including sexual, psychological and physical Abuse.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Ruhle: The left-leaning podcast MeidasTouch has just done the unthinkable—dethroned Joe Rogan to become the country’s most popular podcast…
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Contact Maurice Blackburn lawyers if you know anything about sexual abuse at St Aloysius’ Jesuit College at Kirribilli, Sydney from 1975 to 1987. #Clericalabuse #Catholic #Jesuits
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Flashback ; A very special day in my career. The day we launched #TheAltarBoys at the Newcastle Town Hall with these very special people who helped me write this book. The incredible courage of these families, standing next to me, got me through.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...
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All The Federal Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders
We put them all in one place.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
www.smh.com.au/world/middle...
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Trump dresses ethnic cleansing as real estate opportunity
Here’s the dire place we find ourselves three weeks into the second Trump administration.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Has @bsky.app version of Instagram up and running yet ?
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
@milliganreports.bsky.social in The Monthly on #CardinalGeorgePell www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2025/f...
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The true legacy of the rapist George Pell
As the Catholic Church finds a new legal defence against child sexual abuse charges, disgust with the late cardinal George Pell’s glorification has now led some of his own victims to come forward and ...
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
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George Pell raped, groped two boys in Ballarat, compensation scheme decides
Two men were compensated after the National Redress Scheme accepted they were abused as boys by the late Cardinal George Pell in Ballarat in the 1970s.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
#Yabun #ChangeTheDate
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Karen Jane Barlow @kjbar.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
“They’re excited by Trump. They will try and use mechanisms from his playbook here. And they do it already, right?” a Liberal MP tells the Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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‘They’re excited by Trump’: Dutton’s inclusion strategy
Insiders say the opposition is already taking cues from the new US administration’s hard line on gender and diversity policies.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is what #courage looks like ! Bishop of Washington and Interim Dean #MariannEdgarBudde.
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Australia Day has been held on many different dates in our history. Move the current date out of respect for Indigenous people. #changethedate
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Catching up on all of #WilliamTrevor’s books and short stories. Such simple and beautiful prose. #Irishwriters
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
A wonderful lunch with these amazing women - talented, courageous, funny ! Especially @sarahvmac.bsky.social
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/righ...
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Right-wing studies’ time has come
"Factual accuracy is a necessary but insufficient goal of professional journalism. Journalists need to compile facts into a vision of reality that is more compelling than that offered by right-wing me...
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
@sarahvmac.bsky.social says goodbye to #ABCRadioSydney - Go well and Onwards!!! #Radio #Broadcasting
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/sa...
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
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ABC radio bosses have ‘trampled’ on listeners’ trust with Sydney presenter changes, staff say in angry letter
Exclusive: Letter to ABC board claims decision to remove well-liked presenters shows lack of ‘understanding’ of public broadcasting
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 06/12/2024
The science is clear. The Government needs to stop salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour if it's going to save the Maugean Skate. It's really not complicated. #auspol @amyremeikis.bsky.social @glennconnley.bsky.social
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Anne Fitzgerald @otherschmother.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Is there a way we can follow the produce from his holdings to market and make his output unsellable. The fine is petty cash probably. Bastard. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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NSW farmer fined record $1m for wiping out critical koala habitat for private airstrip larger than Sydney airport
Ronald Greentree and his company Auen Grain cleared 1,262 hectares of land home to 30 threatened species, NSW government says
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Suzanne Smith @suzipeep.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Beautiful #Australia #SouthCoast
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