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When the news all seems tumultuous and grim, love this insight from War and Peace - more relevant than ever.
Mark Scott
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Mark Scott
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Vice-Chancellor & President, University of Sydney. Formerly NSW Education, ABC, Fairfax. Views expressed here are my own. Retweets/likes are not endorsements.
- It feels like she taking political communication to a whole new level. Simple, practical, grounded, authentic - just fabulous connection with real people living real lives.Meanwhile, in NZ: Our Prime Minister just popped her toddler to bed and has pitched up on the couch in a sweater to do a #covid19 Q&A, as the country enters its first night of lockdown.
00:00 - How many royal commissions have been triggered by the work of Four Corners over more than five decades? Just remarkable, sustained investigative reporting of the highest quality. Journalism with consequence.
- Not just a remarkable service for Australians at home - the ABC’s international TV service is bringing outstanding bushfire coverage for Australian travellers and expats. Only the ABC can do this - a treasured asset.
- Such a straight-talker, Dr Chant. You know she is working around- the-clock with her team and is so concerned at the current risk and the challenges ahead. Great professionalism and integrity.
- Those outraged by Tom Gleeson just aren’t old enough to remember Gold Logie winner Norman Gunston. He ran a marvellous campaign. #Logies
- A remarkably divided nation when you look at the national two party count - just 30,000 difference in 7.3m counted.
- Ten years since we lost the intrepid storytellers: Paul Lockyer, John Bean and Gary Ticehurst - on assignment for the ABC at Lake Eyre. Much admired, greatly missed. Love to family, friends and colleagues.
- Test cricket is one of those secrets only understood by a billion of us. The rest don't know what they're missing. #AUSvsIND
- Interesting how you can feel astonished and not surprised at the same time.
- If true, @CricketAus knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. wwos.nine.com.au/2018/06/14/08/…
- 64 Parliamentary sitting days last year.Today I am calling for teachers to stop working from home unless paid to do it. What's your view? smh.com.au/politics/feder…
- Having studied these over the years - the ABC's growth and sustained online engagement is remarkable. Not just the audience - but how long they stay and how frequently they return. An indispensable part of Australian life.ABC NEWS was Australia’s No 1 digital news site in August with an audience of 13 million Australians, the most sessions and the most time spent. Source: Nielsen DCR @abcnews
- Two things that have exhausted the nation this week: 1. Canberra 2. Book Week costume creation. Thanks to all the mums, dads, teachers and kids who have made thousands of book week celebrations look so wonderful.
