Tony Spencer-Smith

Tony Spencer-Smith is an award-winning novelist, former editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest magazine, and an expert corporate writer, editor and writing trainer.

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Once we had Gorbachev and Mandela. Now we must make do with the likes of Putin, Trump, Johnson, Morrison and Truss. Great piece lamenting the passing of giants, leaders who could transform the world and make it a better place.
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[Tony Spencer-Smith @syllababble]

Let UNESCO know we want them to protect the reef! Australia is squandering its most precious possession. The government must be brought to its senses on climate change now @GetUp https://t.co/9vwQxDBlhn

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How on earth did something as simple and useful as a mask become so politicised? Let's try to get back to rational thought, people, and leave behind insane conspiracy theories and outlandish hatreds.

[Guardian Australia @GuardianAus]

Magda Szubanski targeted by coordinated 'avalanche of hate' from rightwing extremists over Covid mask ad https://t.co/oYZJG8wDy1

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What a breath of sanity Obama is, skewering with his brilliant rhetorical skills the madness Trump has made of the presidency. How American politics moved from a man of Obama's character to Trump is a mystery. Now there is a way out https://t.co/H6RQUglCVP

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Some of Australia's most iconic beaches are disappearing thanks to climate change and hardly anyone is even talking about it. Goodbye Byron Bay and wake up Australia!

[Linda Vergnani @ecowrite]

Strangely, no mention of #climatechange and rises in sea level in this story about loss of Byron Bay's #beaches. Recent study showed 40% of Australia's beaches will be eroded away in the next 80 years. Sea levels could rise by 1 metre. #ClimateAction https://t.co/xfGAVAoyLS

[Tony Spencer-Smith @syllababble]

A scientist passionately lamenting the slow murder of our planet. If Joelle Gergis's plea for us to wake up and start fighting to protect our world from #climatechange leaves you cold, your brain is made of coal. #auspol https://t.co/hihFlOMI9V

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Come on UniSuper, you have the financial might to make a real difference to the terrible problem of climate change. Throw out the fossil fools and put your money where the future lies. It is too late to try to persuade these companies to reform themselves. #UniSuperDivest

[Market Forces @market_forces]

.@UniSuperNews board: use next Monday’s meeting with member representatives to commit to fossil fuel divestment #UniSuperDivest @GrahameMcCullo2 @sarahecroberts @VicUniVC @JEdenHollander
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[Tony Spencer-Smith @syllababble]

Learn how to fight false information during the pandemic and how portmanteau words have flourished in the time of the modern plague. Plus much more in the latest issue of our newsletter for people who love words Exclaim! https://t.co/IrbFaaGb6O

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I just signed the open letter to stand in solidarity with bushfire survivors and force our leaders to recognise the climate crisis. Will you do the same? https://t.co/wmI6y8Fbr1

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A brilliant elegy to the lost idyllic Australian summer, as scarlet skies and dark noons scare us, and the tiny smoke particles of incinerated nature insinuate themselves into our lungs. May even our so-called leaders heed this #climatechange wake-up call https://t.co/ct2AFQlqP2

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Great to see one of the greatest Australian sporting heroes speaking out about the need to fight climate change. Let's knock it for a six Ian!

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The incredible vanishing arts! How revealing that the Australian Government is axing the Department of Communications and the Arts in favour of a new mega-department that is all about infrastructure and doesn't even have the word arts in the title. #ArtMatters

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Whatever happened to factual reporting? Clever expose of how the British tabloid press continually praised Kate and sneered at Meghan - though both royal ladies were behaving in exactly the same way! The poisonous use of irresponsible rhetoric in action. https://t.co/NDeWuCJ19S

[Tony Spencer-Smith @syllababble]

This article about the youthful elderly calls them the yold - a portmanteau word fusing the words young and old. Doing this seems to be becoming a craze. Brexit is the most famous recent example. But be careful of the habit - it can become a nervous tic. https://t.co/V4JSIBfJQb

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What a cop out! With the forces of darkness closing in on the apostrophe, John Richards and his team fled for the hills. What cowardice in the face of the punctuation infidels! #writing #punctuation https://t.co/5jLNkOleFV

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What's the missing element in the response of companies like Westpac and AMP to the banking crisis? Empathy, says a brand reputation expert in the latest issue of the Express Editors newsletter Exclaim! https://t.co/PI7mLtJ7FL

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I knew Roger Federer is popular but this is ridiculous. A tennis player with the charisma of a matador, though I am sure the great man has no intention of tormenting a bull https://t.co/TgHEzkuvY0

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The phrase climate emergency has been named Oxford Word of the Year for 2019. Research showed that use of the phrase was more than 100 times as common by September as in the previous year. How can we sleep while our beds are burning? https://t.co/BVqVRZ0x3o #climate

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Read Richard Flanagan's haunting piece about the slow vanishing of those emblems of freedom, birds. Glorious and desperately sad prose. Wake up and rescue the dawn chorus or face an endless silence #birdlifeoz #australianbirds #climatecrisis https://t.co/7ZJQ7tE2DR

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If goats get your goat, maybe you will soften to them when you realise they are saving books from the ravaging fires of California. We need all the allies we can get to cope with the climate emergency. https://t.co/zbr2ioxU6C