Darcy Fitzgerald

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@ukpapers Shame as I had the “second” front page of The Tiser today! Oh well. Thanks for all you do.

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Front page of The Advertiser today. Stay tuned for part two and three in our investigation of the challenges boys face today.

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▫ Taking the Mickey

▫A taxpayer-funded “professional development” fund for public health doctors has reimbursed costs for $23,000 watches and accommodation at Disneyland
▫@Eliz_henson
▫https://t.co/HreoEEoCqp

@theTiser #frontpagestoday #Australia 🇦🇺

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Trawled through close to 9000 institutions targeted in the Canvas hack to identify all the Australian education providers compromised. Full list: 177 Aussie schools named in major global data breach
https://t.co/FHDlbxVTdr

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As a former teacher I know talent and passion are much more important than qualifications when it comes to teaching. ‘Waste of talent’: 20,000 teachers frozen out of a job they love
https://t.co/8hMx7NZc0E

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Today was a first. Just observed a big Land Cruiser pull up to Darwin Bunnings and order a drive thru snag

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Great collaboration with my colleagues Susie O’Brien and Mary Papadakis to turn this story around in less than a day and profile an extremely distressing issue in Australian schools.

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▫ Period Police

▫Female students at Islamic schools have been asked to disclose their periods to staff who track menstrual cycles and send girls to supervised “period rooms” during prayer time
▫@susieob @Drcyftz & Mary Papadakis

@theheraldsun #frontpagestoday #Australia 🇦🇺

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Should schools bankrupt families who can’t pay their fees? Maybe as a last resort, but Financial Counselling Australia are concerned is being used over the top. ‘Ruined’: Schools forcing families into bankruptcy revealed
https://t.co/QrdhGW0FRG

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Interesting chat with ex-commando Gordon Dedman. He’s doing the type of things I wish I did when I was at school. Ex-commando blasts Australia’s ‘pathetically soft’ kids
https://t.co/YsaYs5hVSy

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▫ Hospital Horror

▫SA Health’s largest network faces explosive claims of systematic bullying and workplace failures that allegedly have driven staff to suicide attempts
▫@Bradcrouch

@theTiser #frontpagestoday #Australia 🇦🇺

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🇦🇺 Damning Secret Report

▫Plots to spy on persons accused of inappropriate behaviour, private vehicles paid for by school budgets and a suspect $85k salary increase request are formal complaints in confidential report
▫@Drcyftz @gera_kazakov

#frontpagestoday #Australia @TheNTNews

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This isn’t spy fiction – foreign espionage in unis is a real threat
Very revealing chat with a very interesting man, Brendan Walker-Munro https://t.co/veQ3ytqxC0

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🇦🇺 Hell On Earth

▫Shocking footage of young children fighting for entertainment is a cry for help from a remote Aboriginal community plagued by violence and unrest

#frontpagestoday #Australia @TheNTNews

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By no means a nice story to write, but one that has to be told.

Hell on earth: Shocking footage of kids fighting as community cries out for help

https://t.co/8Aht1ujmVG

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Check out this story I wrote appearing on the front of the NT News today

‘Not an idle threat’: One in 5 NT childcare centres could shut under new laws

https://t.co/hpS7lxOKIH

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🇦🇺 Childcare Crackdown

▫One in five Territory childcare centres not ‘up to scratch’ could be shut down under new laws passed by federal parliament

#frontpagestoday #Australia @TheNTNews

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Three NT yarns on Wednesday's front page

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🇦🇺 'We Don't Feel Safe'

▫Katherine crime is out of control following the release of new crime data and a spate of violent assaults, with business owners speaking out about the toll it takes

#frontpagestoday #Australia @TheNTNews

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Article I wrote on revelations NT students are doing 'land-based' swimming lessons as part of the ambitious program to teach all Territory kids how to swim. 👇

‘Land-based’ swimming lessons provided to NT primary school students

https://t.co/ZYf3bBPJuT

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Sunrise in Woodroffe, #palmerston. Another #BreakingNews‌ and #crime story in the #northernterritory for the NT News

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🇦🇺 Bang For Your Buck

▫Territorians are being cheated of the cheapest supermarket choice, but if you want fresh produce then go local, shoppers say
▫@Drcyftz

#frontpagestoday #Australia @TheNTNews

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🇦🇺 Fear For Students

▫Parents of students with autism are crying out for help, including the mother of a student who was driven to suicidal ideation at the tender age of five
▫@Drcyftz

#frontpagestoday #Australia @TheNTNews 🇦🇺

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‘Isolated, unwanted’: Parents concerned NT schools failing autistic students

Parents of students with autism are crying out for help, including the mother of a child who was driven to suicidal ideation at the tender age of five.

https://t.co/iCsBneJN4Y