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Deputy Editor - International for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ex Beirut, Jerusalem, Jakarta. Follow abcmattbrown on facebook

Sydney, New South Wales
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Joined June 2010
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    20 Feb 2017

    Catch up on our 4 Corners about the battle against in on ABC iview

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  2. 10 hours ago

    So... the school boy sitting in the bus seats for people with limited mobility just stood up and offered me a seat! There were other adults he could have chosen...

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    22 hours ago

    A very small swarm eats as much in one day as about 35,000 people, posing a devastating threat to crops and food security.

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    22 hours ago

    So 's People's Daily seems to have taken an interview from last December with 's former Prime Minister, grabbed parts of it and whacked it together as if she'd just written a piece for the Communist Party's mouthpiece under her own byline... all class.

    Um, what the fuck, People’s Daily?
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    22 hours ago

    This group has also called on the government of to "publicly demand that releases" this detained Australian writer immediately. When you think about it it is quite extraordinary that this has not already happened. Hope I'm never relying on Canberra to get me out

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    22 hours ago

    Chinese community group in calls on Foreign Minister to demand that the authorities in reveal the physical location of detained Australian writer Yang Hengjun; make public the details of the alleged case against him; allow him access to a lawyer etc

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  7. Feb 18

    While Chinese carrier Huawei has been blocked from 5g in Australia and the US, the UK and Germany aren’t so sure... read on... the detail is fascinating

    I think this is the best thread on how China is using 5G to drive a wedge between the 5-Eyes Alliance, the oldest and deepest alliance between the five liberal-democracies. British and NZ weakness could be a huge victory for Beijing over the grouping.
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  8. Feb 18

    Psst! Don’t tell that I tweeted this before going to sleep! “Session 4 discussed how the RAF (and MOD) might further develop policies and protocols that could encourage greater transparency and foster deeper accountability “

    Summary report from a joint AOAV-Chatham House round-table examining the RAF and Airstrikes
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    Feb 17

    French officer's indictment of Coalition tactics in Hajin seems to double as critique of "by, with and through" model:

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    Feb 17

    Can we retire the phrase "IS brides"? We don't call the men "IS grooms." Even if they didn't fight, the women who willingly went to join and support a genocidal death cult are no less culpable.

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  11. Feb 17

    This is going to be fascinating viewing... China is using bounty hunters to claw back money inside Australia via

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  12. Feb 16

    This is good! Next time you have a big fail, just tell people: “maybe I hit a cow”.

    This would not happen in Japan.
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    Feb 15

    Nothing got done, lots of oddballs showed up, and most of the attendees missed the memo about this not being an Iran conference. On a shambolic week in Warsaw:

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  14. Feb 15

    Foreign spying? Spook infighting? Slack controls? Or all of the above

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  15. Feb 15

    The US reportedly asked Aust to contribute to this buffer zone in Syria, raising Qs Re duration, purposes and legality... pressing the Euros: “I’m hoping that President Trump will be coming to some of you and asking for your help and you will say yes.”

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    Feb 13

    "Radicalization processes at an individual level are extremely complex – what may cause a teenage male to join a far right extremist group is going to be very distinct to what may motivate a mother to take her children to join IS," says

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  17. Feb 13

    “Israel chooses to ignore all the efforts of Saudi Arabia to make peace, and expects Saudi Arabia to put its hand in its [Israel’s] hand and go forward on technology, on water desalination, on issues like that. It’s not going to happen,” he exclaimed. (And yet....)

    Hard to see that it’s possible to discuss peace and security in the Middle East if one doesn’t address also the Palestinian issue. Stark message to Israel from Riyadh.
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    Feb 13

    "The time to fight for journalism...is now," veteran journalist and CPJ awardee Maria Ressa declared at the IPFA in New York in November. Today, Ressa was arrested in her Manila office over a cyber libel case.

    Maria Ressa: Six lessons and appeals for action at CPJ's IPFA
    Rappler's Founder and CEO Maria Ressa received CPJ's 2018 Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award in New York on November 20.
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    Feb 13
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    Oversight committees need to pay attention and start asking the FBI questions about their process and why it's so broken.

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    Feb 13

    I do wonder if the Witt case is at all connected to the grand jury thing that got a PressTV anchor detained in the US a few weeks ago

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    Feb 13

    The MEK is having a rally in Warsaw where as usual about a third of the crowd is random non-Iranians who've been bussed in from Slovakia and can't read the signs they're holding

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