Stick this one in your Christmas stockings! Whoop whoop Donna Lu @ NewSouth Publishing books - lovely review in The Age The Sydney Morning Herald for Best Australian #Science Writing 2023.

This week, Annie Werner told me about her living wake, and how normalising the processes around death 'makes it easier to face it, and to grieve'.

Her grace and generosity will stay with me for a long time, as will the joy of her 'Ultimate Celebration' theguardian.com/society/2023/n…

Congrats Nicky Phillips for amazing story on the science that freed Kathleen Folbigg. And to my fellow runner-up & Centre for Advancing Journalism alum Amalyah Hart for Cosmos yarn on franken-frogs. The quality of Oz science writing is gobsmacking. Check it out! Donna Lu NewSouth Publishing

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing 2023.

The 2023 Bragg Prize will be announced at the launch event for The Best Australian Science Writing 2023, at the UNSW Roundhouse on 9 November.

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I got really really really cranky and wrote this for Harper’s BAZAAR harpersbazaar.com/culture/featur…

Do you have any questions about the voice? Our Full Story podcast is interviewing Noel Pearson this morning and wants your questions on the referendum. Please email [email protected] by 9:30am.

I spoke to a bunch of women in comedy - ass Ange Lavoipierre Jenna Owen and Gen Fricker - about what the scene is like, and: it’s not great! theguardian.com/culture/2023/s…

Hello Twitter! In exciting news - next week I will be joining the Inequality desk at Guardian Australia.
I am very keen to start digging into stories. If you have ideas, thoughts or tips you want to share, please email: [email protected], or DM for signal.

No ongoing negative impact of colonisation? Try telling that to survivors of Kinchela | Lorena Allam theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Multiple sites of possible “clandestine” burials have been discovered on the grounds of one of the most violent institutions of the Stolen Generations era.
A shocking and powerful story from Lorena Allam & Sarah Collard
All mob - read with care
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“If they expect to get public money then they should provide the whole range of legally condoned … services.” Donna Lu reports on Catholic-run public hospitals: theguardian.com/australia-news…

'I was always proud when kids told me their school had banned my books – ‘yes, I’m absolutely on the right track!’”

I profiled Andy Griffiths for The Guardian - it is so nice interviewing authors I read as a kid. Even better when they're cool dudes like Andy theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…

Coalition politicians who oppose the voice to parliament are vastly outspending other politicians on Facebook, and in some cases, using taxpayer-funded expenses to boost ads that personally target yes campaigners and raise doubt about the reliability of voting process

“Don’t wait until it is too late and they disappear through your neglect. We do not give you permission to kill wilkerr and we never did.” - Wotjobaluk peoples

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This was a fun commission from Alyx Gorman, on the big business that is the noise cancelling and ear plug market, and whether turning down the volume alters our brains and surrounds in unexpected ways theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

What is being allowed to happen to children in Queensland is outrageous. Excellent reporting by Ben Smee theguardian.com/australia-news…

Healthcare should be evidence-based.

Dr Catriona Melville, MSI Australia's Deputy Medical Director shared her views on the lack of reproductive health services on offer at Australian catholic hospitals. Donna Lu The Guardian Children by Choice Daile Kelleher
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“We’ve heard of people being turned away from the Mater … with suicidality and attempted self-abortion.'

Great story from Donna Lu on how Catholic hospitals, which receive taxpayer money, refuse to provide birth control or handle all pregnancy outcomes

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