Stephanie Convery
@gingerandhoney.bsky.social
Writer. Reporter at Guardian Australia. Stories and tips: stephanie.convery@theguardian.com or stephanieconvery@protonmail.com; DM for Signal
You don't need to have super-niche interests for this to be a potential issue. I always thought of rare books as something for real literature nerds but now I'm wondering if autobiographies of the first women marathon runners are being destroyed here. Joan Benoit Samuelson's is out of print...
Stephanie Convery@gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 4d agoNever not taking up an opportunity to write about rare books www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Something I didn’t really needle in on here but is worth noting: They say they aren’t shredding rare books, but how do they know? A rare book isn’t always listed as such. Eg. a chapbook from a significant poet that didn’t get noticed when it was catalogued because the vendor didn’t know its history.
Stephanie Convery@gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 4d agoNever not taking up an opportunity to write about rare books www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Never not taking up an opportunity to write about rare books www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
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"It's an extraordinarily intimate relationship": I spoke to two of Victoria's small team of voluntary assisted dying care navigators, whose job it is to help terminally ill people chart a course towards choice @gogentleaus.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Voluntary assisted dying care navigators help Victoria’s end-of-life patients chart a course for choice
‘We have the privilege of seeing a lot of love,’ Kristen Kappel says – with death ‘the most beautiful, satisfying, precious part of our role’
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MEAA stands with Nine Publishing members affected by today’s announcement that 30 editorial roles will be cut across The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times and WAToday. Read more: meaa.io/4frrhXV
Eighteen months ago, the owners corporation of the small apartment building in which I live jettisoned strata managers entirely and took on management of the building ourselves. Here’s a story about how and why. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Cc @strataownersaus.bsky.social
Unit owners are wresting back control of their stratas: ‘If I don’t do it, the building will fall into the street’
Amid high costs and low confidence in the industry, some owner-occupiers are taking on Australia’s commercialised strata system
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"The Guardian is aware that at least nine of the musicians who played in the Sydney concerts are now helping the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) with a workplace inquiry about the events surrounding the performance."
The pianist from the audience at La La Land in Concert was a global feelgood story – but all was not what it seemed
Two orchestra members from the Sydney performance allege tensions behind the scenes were the cause of pianist failing to appear after intermission
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There's a link to the full statement on the MEAA website now: www.meaa.org/Public/Conte...
Statement condemning Pauline Hanson’s treatment of journalist Sarah Martin
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Stephanie Convery@gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe National Media Sector of @withmeaa.bsky.social put this statement together yesterday in the wake of Sarah being attacked by Hanson at the press club. We need to call out attacks on press freedom when we see them. It's journalists standing together against this stuff that is going to stop it.
MEAA condemns the continuing treatment of journalist Sarah Martin by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson. Journalists must be able to do their job without fear of intimidation, exclusion, or personal attack. This is a moment for us to stand together and hold the line on press freedom. meaa.io/3SbzRlK
The National Media Sector of @withmeaa.bsky.social put this statement together yesterday in the wake of Sarah being attacked by Hanson at the press club. We need to call out attacks on press freedom when we see them. It's journalists standing together against this stuff that is going to stop it.
Sarah Martin is an incredible journalist and Hanson personally attacking her for very standard questions shows just how down the Trump normalisation we are. And it will come to all journalists who do their job.
Pauline Hanson's attack on Sarah Martin at the press club just now was abhorrent, but what was absolutely shameful was the journalists in the room applauding it. Where is your workplace solidarity? What the hell do you think this kind of behaviour leads to?
I learned an academic who wrote about students not cutting corners in learning (by using AI) had used AI to write her opinion piece. Confirmed with the uni last night. Went to Nine about it this morning. Never responded but pulled the article and pubbed their own www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sydney academic used AI to write SMH opinion piece urging students to avoid using tech to ‘cut corners’
Sydney Morning Herald removes piece by Cath Ellis, despite Western Sydney University saying her use of AI was ‘appropriate’
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Giving minimum wage earners (about 100,000 people) a 6% wage increase to match inflation, and the 3m or so workers who have awards tied to it a 4.75% is not going to cause a wage price spiral. It means they can buy what they are already buying. Like bread AND milk and maybe some biscuits and fuel
I have been working on this for a little while now. It’s a story that stunned me when I heard it and showed the contours of a problem that is deep and structural. Please read 🩷 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
We asked a passing bird to tell us. We asked the face we see in the mirror. We cut each page into many pieces, looked for pieces containing the word ‘truth’ and fed them to a goat. The next day the goat said, ‘Probably. Or maybe not.’ We smiled and told each other: ‘Time will tell.’
Sam Byers@sambyers.bsky.social · 3mo agoGenuine question: what exactly are we all doing.
Forgive me for sharing this again, but the Kyle Hudson inquest was incredibly affecting – and revealing – about the depth of harm gambling can cause to a young man with no adverse circumstances, the info betting companies have, and crucially, what they do with it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Flagged for winning, inducements when losing: how betting firms watched a Melbourne man gamble $895,000 before his death at 22
Kyle Hudson joined a betting app on his 18th birthday, and lost his final, $1,300 bet on the morning of his 2021 death. A coroner wants to know if anything can be done to stop it from happening again
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Flagged for winning, inducements when losing: how betting firms watched a Melbourne man gamble $895,000 before his death at 22
Flagged for winning, inducements when losing: how betting firms watched a Melbourne man gamble $895,000 before his death at 22
Kyle Hudson joined a betting app on his 18th birthday, and lost his final, $1,300 bet on the morning of his 2021 death. A coroner wants to know if anything can be done to stop it from happening again * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The WNBA match between the Dallas Wings and New York Liberty in July 2021 was a nail-biter. The lead bounced back and forth between the teams more than a dozen times. Liberty kept the Wings at bay in the third quarter but Dallas took the lead with just under five minutes left in the fourth. Thirty seconds later, the score was tied. Kyle Hudson, 22, was on the other side of the world from that Brooklyn basketball court, but he was heavily invested. Continue reading...
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22yo Kyle Hudson’s brother, Ryan, told the coroner this week that his family had no idea of the depth of Kyle’s gambling. He was the last person any of them thought was at risk of suicide. But the betting companies did know about his gambling. What did they do? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Flagged for winning, inducements when losing: how betting firms watched a Melbourne man gamble $895,000 before his death at 22
Kyle Hudson joined a betting app on his 18th birthday, and lost his final, $1,300 bet on the morning of his 2021 death. A coroner wants to know if anything can be done to stop it from happening again
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Today in "you're never too old to learn that thing": women aged 39 to 75 told me about how they felt getting back on a bicycle for the first time in decades – and some for the first time ever. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Learn-to-cycle courses are booming in Australia as adults saddle up for the ‘golden age’ of biking
Whether they are rusty riders or complete beginners, more people are keen to navigate life on two wheels
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Ah, but do we not all, in some way, remain Barry Jones in the process?
Jeff Sparrow@jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · 3mo agoThese comments just get more and more astonishing. Hard to believe that this guy once edited a major newspaper and fancies himself an expert on ethics.
If you'll permit me, a thread: On the weekend, former Age editor Michael Gawenda had a crack at @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social via The Australian. Jeff's supposed crime was organising and publishing an anti-genocide letter in 2023 while editor of Overland and senior lecturer in journalism at UniMelb.
They seem to have removed this embed now, which is good, but yikes
Stephanie Convery@gingerandhoney.bsky.social · 4mo agoI realise this is a story about racism, but I don't think the ABC ought to be embedding social media posts by an actual neo-Nazi publication without telling readers what that publication is. This is not just any "announcement" news. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
I realise this is a story about racism, but I don't think the ABC ought to be embedding social media posts by an actual neo-Nazi publication without telling readers what that publication is. This is not just any "announcement" news. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
Racism erupts after Melbourne announces Little India plans
Social media posts about the announcement of a Little India precinct in Melbourne are flooded with racist comments, leaving some Indians with mixed feelings about the plan.
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I went hunting for Australia's oldest playable musical instrument. Here's what I found.
The yidaki, a 16th-century double bass and a South American flute: finding Australia’s oldest playable musical instrument
The first musical instrument to arrive with European colonisers in Australia was a piano made in 1780 – but there are older ones still being played
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