The stories mainstream media missed this week
A roundup of stories ignored by most media this week, and a very personal episode of Only Fran.
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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
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.
ETTE-CLUSIVE: '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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
