This coverage happened less than 24 hours after independent MP Helen Haines was brutally attacked. At the time, all that was known was Haines' condition being critical, and the alleged suspect’s name. New episode of We Used To Be Journos out now wherever you get your podcasts.

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These stories were published within 24 hours of the attack on Helen Haines, when information was limited and there were no charges. Most of them kept to the facts — except one.

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For thirty years Pauline Hanson has defined racism as a belief in your own race's superiority, so that only a confession could satisfy it. Australian law and international law define it differently, and some of her own statements fail even her test.

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💯 “The attack on Helen Haines has been presented as a singular tragedy, a shocking departure from the ordinary, rather than as a manifestation of a problem that Australian women have been describing for generations.” Thanks for naming what I’ve been thinking this week @ronnisalt.bsky.social #auspol

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I once dismissed P-Pop as a K-Pop imitation. Then BINI's Karera found me during board exam review, and ALAMAT kept me listening. From Iloilo to Edmonton, here's my listening guide for fellow skeptics and curious listeners.

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