Ette's Friday Book Club: March Edition
This month we're spotlighting a tender, cathartic tale and a read that couldn't be further from that
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I’m an NDIS participant. The media makes me feel like I'm rorting the taxpayer
By Lauren (last name withheld) I am an NDIS participant and neurodivergent, but thanks to an ongoing beat up by Australia’s mainstream media, I hardly touch my approved NDIS funding. This may well please the Australian Financial Review if its latest article demonising Australians living with disability is anything
The stories mainstream media missed this week
From charges against an ICC judge dropped, to BBC journos suing their employer to Murdoch's grubby fingers all over Iran.
Lebanese suffering ignored, Theroux’s ‘manosphere’ doco + is Netanyahu dead?
In this episode Jan Fran and Antoinette examine the devastating attacks on Lebanon and the Lebanese population - and why local media coverage has been strangely quiet.
EXCLUSIVE: 'I didn’t' - Albanese denies calling Grace Tame ‘difficult’
By Antoinette Lattouf In the hours after the Prime Minister declared Grace Tame was ‘difficult’ during an on-stage word association game with a Herald Sun journalist, Anthony Albanese unconvincingly tries to qualify his controversial comment. In a message exchange seen by Ette Media, a member of the public sent a
Minns wants 'context' on police brutality and NSW Police violent history delivers it
Here’s some context about NSW police’s history of brutal force.
EXCLUSIVE: Government knew PM's number was public for nine months, emails show
Ette Media can also reveal it wasn’t just Albanese’s number - other private details about the PM are still online.
EXCLUSIVE: PM's personal number published online with other big-name Aussies in massive privacy breach
The personal mobile phone number of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese - along with the numbers of several high-profile Australians in media and business - has been published on a publicly accessible third-party website, in what appears to be a widespread privacy breach.
The stories mainstream media missed this week
From charges against an ICC judge dropped, to BBC journos suing their employer to Murdoch's grubby fingers all over Iran.
SMH, The Age Red-Faced over Red Alert
The Nine papers made some very - VERY- alarming predictions three years ago that by now we’d be at war with China. So far, so wrong.
Iran/Israel Op-Eds are sending our WTF-o-meter into overdrive
Opinions published within 24 to 48 hours of a global calamity tend to establish a certain narrative and set the tone for the type of conversation to come and boy does that conversation seem ... bad.
EXCLUSIVE: Meanjin axed under ‘suspect’ grounds despite rescue offer
Melbourne University Publishing says shutting one of Australia’s longest-running literary outlets was a “purely financial” decision. But the story (and numbers) don’t add up. We can reveal an offer of a cash injection is on the table. So what's the real reason for its closure?
EXCLUSIVE: 'I didn’t' - Albanese denies calling Grace Tame ‘difficult’
By Antoinette Lattouf In the hours after the Prime Minister declared Grace Tame was ‘difficult’ during an on-stage word association game with a Herald Sun journalist, Anthony Albanese unconvincingly tries to qualify his controversial comment. In a message exchange seen by Ette Media, a member of the public sent a
2026 off with a grim bang: bushfires, Adelaide WF, Royal Commission, Iran and Venezuela
Lattouf returns to cut through the news chaos while recovering from surgery, handing the mic and couch to Randa Abdel-Fattah as she joins Jan Fran on We Used To Be Journos.
EXCLUSIVE: The phantom mosque and the media that ran with a ghost story
Ette Media can reveal how parts of the tabloid and commercial press managed to spin a fake letter about a mosque into a real panic, whipping up outrage over a story with shaky foundations.
EXCLUSIVE: Government knew PM's number was public for nine months, emails show
Ette Media can also reveal it wasn’t just Albanese’s number - other private details about the PM are still online.
Who gets to be a victim?
When an 'unexpected' victim is killed — a white person, for example — what usually follows is an outpouring of grief and media coverage. Otten the two go hand in hand. When a black and/or brown people is killed, the reaction often differs.
Ette-Itorial: Dear PM: social media helped me survive small-town isolation. Your ban traps others there
Social media gave me language I didn’t have. It gave me peers who shared similar paths. It also gave me a place to say, “This is who I am and what I need,” at a time when saying that offline felt loaded with risk.
Opinion: Pauline Hanson Stays Relevant Because the Media Makes Sure of It
'Pauline Hanson and what she represents have been a spectre looming over me not just throughout my entire career, but also many life milestones and memories.'
Opinion: Victoria’s crime ‘crisis’ only exists in the headlines
Victoria is buzzing with outrage over youth crime as the state rolls out its punitive “adult time for violent crime” laws. It feels like the predictable final act of a media-stoked and politicised crime panic used to justify swelling police powers.
Ette's Friday Book Club: March Edition
This month we're spotlighting a tender, cathartic tale and a read that couldn't be further from that
Friday Book Club- FREE TICKETS EDITION
Ette’s resident book worm (no, not me) weighs in with her fave fiction read and I keep it in the family (literally) with this month’s non-fiction recommendation.
Fran's Friday Book Club - Adelaide Writers' edition
Adelaide Writers’ Week may have been canceled but that doesn’t mean you can’t hear from the authors.
Subscriber live show giveaway
We have two double passes to give away: one for Brisbane and one for Melbourne.
Fatima Payman + Tom Ballard join our live show line up!
Feast on this roster: comedians, actors, rappers, presenters, plus a couple of independent senators wandering in to join your favourite Ettes.
