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ABC SCHTUM ON STRUM 
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ABC SCHTUM ON STRUM 

Vera FignerMay 3, 2025May 4, 2025
Back in 2022, when Paul Barry had a go at his fellow-journos at the ABC for not reporting on the closure of the UK’s Tavistock youth gender clinic, one Julia...
Josh Szeps on the Newsroom Capture at the ABC
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Josh Szeps on the Newsroom Capture at the ABC

Emma PeelFebruary 27, 2025February 27, 2025
We've spoken about Josh Szeps before. Back in 2022, his broadcast on Radio National was one of several fractures that Women's Cooee saw developing at the ABC. Since then Josh...
Somebody – apart from us – has finally said it
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Somebody – apart from us – has finally said it

Vera FignerDecember 17, 2024December 17, 2024
(Not in words though …) Over the last couple of weeks there’s been a new rush of experts telling the ABC what it ought to do to get its audience...
They’re a downer
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They’re a downer

Vera FignerNovember 9, 2024December 17, 2024
‘They’ as a singular pronoun for an identified person? Aunty, it’s not going to happen; and trying to make it happen just makes your journos look incompetent – and exasperates...
The Vocabulary of Misogyny 
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The Vocabulary of Misogyny 

Vera FignerOctober 27, 2024December 17, 2024
The NSW Parliament crumbled to the trans lobby on 17 October and passed Alex Greenwich’s ghastly ‘Equality’ bill.  Jeremy Fernandez, trans-lobby moonlighter, heralded the imminence of this triumph for misogyny...
AND THE WINNER IS … 
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AND THE WINNER IS … 

Melissus28September 16, 2024September 16, 2024
’Twas a hotly contested competition, as Vera’s and Emma’s goggleboxing demonstrates, but in the end it’s sports journo Samantha Lewis (‘she/they’) who takes gold for Worst ABC Piece on the...
Paris Goggleboxing: News at 7
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Paris Goggleboxing: News at 7

Melissus28September 4, 2024September 4, 2024
Vera Figner and Emma Peel react to the ABC TV coverage of the boxing scandal at the Paris Olympics.  Wednesday 7th August ABC TV News NSW 7 pm Jeremy Fernandez,...
Paris Goggleboxing: ABC Offsiders
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Paris Goggleboxing: ABC Offsiders

Melissus28August 27, 2024September 4, 2024
Vera Figner and Emma Peel react to the ABC TV coverage of the boxing scandal at the Paris Olympics.  Offsiders - Sunday 4th August Kelli Underwood, presenter, to guest reporter...
If Vera were the ABC Ombudsman
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If Vera were the ABC Ombudsman

Melissus28June 3, 2024June 4, 2024
If Vera Figner were the ABC Ombudsman, the outcome would’ve been very different for a complaint about an online article ABC News published on 16 April.  Said article is kind-of...
Leaky bathroom more newsworthy than gender trouble
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Leaky bathroom more newsworthy than gender trouble

Vera FignerApril 21, 2024April 22, 2024
Good on you, Women Speak Tasmania! This is what we like to see: alert ABC News listeners/viewers/readers who recognise censorship and poor judgment when they see it.  Last month, an...

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