ABC SCHTUM ON STRUM
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
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
(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
‘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
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 …
’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
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
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
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
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...