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Melissa Fyfe

@melfyfe

Senior writer, Good Weekend Magazine. She/Her.

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Tim was brilliant with numbers on election night. A lovely, thoughtful person with a twinkle in his eye. Always encouraging.

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A piece I wrote about an unsung champion of Australian tennis. The world according to ‘Crumpy’ theage.com.au/national/turni…

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Greta Gerwig made a film that was critically acclaimed, culturally impactful, hilarious, unique, visually exceptional, perfectly cast and acted, left people laughing, crying and thinking AND made a billion dollars at the box office. But no Best Director nom?! #Barbie #Oscars2024

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Agree with this. Victoria simply can’t afford the Suburban Rail Loop. Other, more worthy, priorities will suffer. Jacinta Allan this is one of your projects, yes, but don’t let it be your legacy. Your legacy lies somewhere else, not in this folly.

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Justice Lee mentioned several issues we wrote about in this GW piece: a) alcohol's role in consent and memory b) trauma's role in how victims present, and c) "appropriate" responses to an assault given things like the freeze response. smh.com.au/national/he-te…

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New report by me and Jacqui Tassone presents findings from my review of AFP/ACT Policing response to sexual offences. The review found that not only are sexual offences rarely charged, sexual offences are rarely investigated. More here: researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/file/3faae18e-…

New report by me and <a href="/jacqui_tassone/">Jacqui Tassone</a> presents findings from my review of AFP/ACT Policing response to sexual offences. 

The review found that not only are sexual offences rarely charged, sexual offences are rarely investigated. 

More here: researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/file/3faae18e-…
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abc.net.au/news/2024-06-1… ANALYSIS: My new column for ABC News "The Australian media industry tells a long and continuing story ... of mediocre men whose shamelessness extends their professional life expectancies well beyond a real meritocracy would permit."

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Tony Armstrong, Paul Kelly, Dave Hughes and Jane Harper are among the dozens of high-profile Australians standing with journalists from the newsrooms of The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review, Brisbane Times and WAToday, demanding quality jobs for quality

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My amazing colleagues explaining the kinds of things they do when not on strike trying to save journalism. To add mine: yesterday I would have been in court to see the sentencing of Sakina Muhammad Jan for a Good Weekend feature on forced marriage.

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As a kid we often drove past Dame Nellie’s house behind the huge hedge at Coldstream. It was a thrill to go beyond the hedge for this story about the amazing house Melba left behind and efforts to finally catalogue everything in it. GoodWeekendMag smh.com.au/national/one-o…

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‘Are we playing God?’ Researchers fast-track evolution in fight to save the reef In this story I look at all the science behind trying to help the reef - or parts of it - through a warming world. theage.com.au/national/are-w…

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I chat here with Anna Marsden, managing director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, about the controversial 2018 funding from the Turnbull government and where it’s all gone, as the reef recovers from its fifth bleaching event since 2016. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/goo…