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By Trina McLellan Downsizing has done few favours for Australia’s newsrooms. In fact, it has been a wicked joke that became a self-fulfilling prophecy. While it might satisfy bean-counters and […]
By Trina McLellan Downsizing has done few favours for Australia’s newsrooms. In fact, it has been a wicked joke that became a self-fulfilling prophecy. While it might satisfy bean-counters and […]
Why you should be careful about what you post about others by Trina McLellan | Reporting4Work | March 25, 2019 WHEN someone publishes derogatory or false statements about another living […]
TO: Mr Omar Metwally Mohamed Tawfic Metwally, Egypt’s Ambassador to Australia FROM: Trina McLellan Journalist and educator, Queensland Australia RE: The wholly unfounded conviction of Australian journalist Peter Greste and […]
A SHORT VIDEO TO WATCH AFTER several months of exceptionally dry weather, our district – like many others across Queensland – is again on a heightened bushfire watch. Living adjacent […]
It’s described as an extreme sport, one that combines aspects of wakeboarding, windsurfing, surfing, paragliding and gymnastics and there are at least eight different styles for its proponents to tackle […]
How lucky are we to live near Moreton Bay on south-east Queensland’s beautiful coastline? For those not familiar with our region, the bay itself is immediately east of the state’s […]
One of the real delights when visiting Melbourne’s CBD is to spend time at the colourful, cheap and centrally located Queen Victoria Market. While up here in South-East Queensland we […]
It is just a 90-minute drive from Hobart, or about 70 minutes from the city’s airport, but Port Arthur is a world apart from anything you’ll experience elsewhere in Tasmania […]
It might seem a big call, but we’ve both agreed it was the best $100 we’d ever spent on anything in our 50+ years, hands-down, and the perfect way to […]
(This opinion piece, originally written in 2003, has proved eerily prescient as the debate on media reforms rages here and abroad a decade later. It was written after the first […]
MELBOURNE, April 4, 2013: Between them these five men can boast more than 200 years as iconic Australian news image-makers and photography is well and truly embedded in their lineage. […]
SLATED to run at least three years, with an interim report due in mid-2014 after initial public hearings, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse presents Australian […]
Easter Monday this year was spent very differently, thanks to the good folk of Maldon in central Victoria. At 10.30am sharp, the town’s sizeable annual Easter Parade got under way […]
TWO very close friends are off on an extended European holiday later this year and last week asked, via email, whether there was any truth in a rather alarming article […]
It’s been quite a while since I last posted here, but full-time work at a busy consultancy has kept me otherwise engaged. However, this weekend I presented to a wonderful […]
by Trina McLellan _____________________________________________ TRIGGER WARNING: Specific news and current affairs coverage of multiple-death crimes, including Australia’s 1996 massacre in Tasmania and Norway’s 2011 killing rampage in and around the […]
racism: (1) the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to […]
Many older Australians say they are deeply unhappy about issues and changes that impact their lives or the lives of their loved ones but about which they have had little […]
What is it like to wear a hijab, the veil covering so widely worn by devout Muslim women? I’ve asked a friend this question on more than one occasion, along […]
Rabia Siddique’s story is unique, stunning, sad, brave and compelling simultaneously. In her 2013 book, Equal Justice, Siddique chronicles her “journey as a woman, a soldier and a Muslim”, roles […]
You know when summer has set in where we live in south-east Queensland. In the aftermath of protracted Christmas celebrations, the crickets are now nearly deafening in the surrounding bushland, […]