On leaving the Sydney Festival board, why I've stayed on until this week, and why this needn't be an us-versus-them story. (1/4) 🧵
(2/4)
Dec 13, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
@CUhlmann The concerns aren't hysterical; they're about facts and accuracy.
Like our mastheads' reporting on suicide and family violence, there are also duty of care and community harm concerns.
Moreover legal & medical realities have been ignored and misrepresented throughout the piece.
@CUhlmann Multiple assertions are baseless, including “it seems the current approach is to assume that all patients are genuinely transgender” and "There does not seem to be any real consideration the child may be experiencing a number of other psychological factors ..."
When in reality:
Jun 24, 2020 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
So proud of my partner and his team who made ABC Life from scratch, from the same funding initiative that gave us ABC Kids Listen, Unravel and more.
Here are 10 things ABC Life executed effortlessly across their work, with which the rest of Australian media bafflingly struggles.
1. Given roughly 1/3 Australians aren’t white, don’t assume your audience is.
“Researchers found use of the word “transgender” soared by 1635 per cent in [extremist] groups, perfectly capturing the period during which The Australian ran its anti-Safe Schools campaign.”
Don’t ignore this stuff. A1 work from Rick—former Oz journo. 👇
