Melissa Roberts

Co-editor Through Her Eyes, Australia's women correspondents Hiroshima to Ukraine, Hardie Grant Books. Out sept 6. Buy:

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Women have changed the way momentous events are reported. In Through Her Eyes Australia's Women Correspondents from Hiroshima to Ukraine, out Sept 6, they share stories of life as a correspondent; the risks, the suffering they witness and the joy. Co-edited with Trevor Watson

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So @commbank wants you to take your complaint offline to make it look like they are helping. The offline answer: I'm sorry Melissa, our colleagues over the phone have tried to assist you with this directly and were unable to provide the outcome that you desired. It's just PR.

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@CommBank So I tried to call back @commbank, but guess what? You can call me but I can't call you. Big surprise. If you don't sort this out we can't settle on my son's first home.

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In @CommBank trying to transfer some money. turned away for the third time. online advice go to a branch. First branch: the teller needs to go to lunch, go to another branch. Second branch: wait one hour while they serve everyone else.

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@CommBank So three phone calls, (two hours on hold) two branch visits (one hour queueing) the bank says "sorry there's nothing we can do." So sorry, but I guess you can't settle on the property till the funds clear. So now we wait. Thanks @CommBank

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@CommBank Well @CommBank it is still not fixed. I'm urgently waiting on you to release my money for a property settlement. On hold again. No one is prepared to assist with this on the phone or in the branch. And oh yeah I did DM.

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https://t.co/m20zbwwWyt
Can't wait to see The First Inventors - brilliant doco that @WatsonTrevorJ worked on with Ben Davies, showing the power and brilliance of the first Australians. on NITV, SBS and Network 10.

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Stan Grant is a great Australian.

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Talking about Through Her Eyes and women foreign correspondents with Kylie Morris at Words at Wagstaffe. Brilliant day with smart people at a very cool tiny writers festival in a glorious waterfront town. #wordsonthewaves
@hardiegrantbooks
@C4KylieM

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@Monocotyledon It's excellent. Would also recommend the charming Acapulco.

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@JaneCaro May I offer a tip? If there are too many possible solutions, choose a word that 'wastes' a go. don't use any of the letters you already know, but use up five others. Then you will know both what letters are in the word and importantly what is not.

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When I was 21 I was a political reporter in the Press Gallery. I knew how despicable Nazis were - I read books, watched films and tv. I went to a fancy dress party around that time - as a cat. It's that easy. #auspol

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@AuschwitzMuseum @MarieColemanAO Never forget. Let Liesbeth remind us of the importance of living in peace. Refuse to allow a return to this violence.

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@JaneCaro 'haven't you got a sense of humour?'

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from @HardieGrant

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50 years after Whitlam recognised the PRC, relations may again thaw as Penny Wong visits China. Paul Raffaele, a first correspondent, writes of an often forbidding place. Read fascinating first hand stories of the rise of a superpower in The Beijing Bureau.
In stores and online.

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https://t.co/ucKhnq1k8q
#China #correspondents #journalism #book #bookstoread #currentaffairs #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks #biography #history

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@chinarhyming @AitkenAlexander @StMartinsPress looking forward to this.

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Reading Harold Evan’s ‘Good Times, Bad Times’ inspired me. It laid out what it meant to be a journalist. So pleased to be asked to contribute to a book that does the same. Stories from Australian women across the decades. Great holiday reading. Tks @MelissRob and @WatsonTrevorJ

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@CoachHess40 @4thandlongmedia somebody really loves you! As kids we would eat spoonfuls of Milo straight from the can. Also yellow Twisties fingers is kind of the point.

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#ukraine #correspondents #women #journalism #book #bookstoread #currentaffairs #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks

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Barbara Miller (ABC0 captured some of 'the first first-hand accounts of the sheer brutality of the Russian invasion' of #Ukraine. Read her compelling story of refugees fleeing the shelling in Through Her Eyes Australia's Women Correspondents Hiroshima to Ukraine.