
Daisy Dumas
Writer and Journalist at Freelance
Reporter at The Guardian
Reporter for @GuardianAus living and working on Gadigal lands, via the Middle East, NYC and London.
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PEN America ‘gravely concerned’ by deportation of Australian writer critical of Trump administration
1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Daisy Dumas |Catie McLeod
A major writers’ advocacy group has condemned the detention and deportation of an Australian writer from the US as “gravely concerning”, while the US administration rejected the suggestion he was targeted because of his political beliefs as “unequivocally false”. Alistair Kitchen, a former Columbia University postgraduate student, was last week detained at Los Angeles airport before being deported back to Melbourne.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Daisy Dumas
Many Instagram-frequenting parents of small children will have seen George Lewis’s sketch about two toddlers discussing their feelings of abandonment and relief wrapped in a game of peekaboo. “It was a normal day, I was just playing with Dad. And then he put his hands in front of his face and he was just gone,” the British comedian and father says in the widely shared video.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Daisy Dumas
The broadcasting luminary Phillip Adams has been appointed a companion of the Order of Australia on the King’s birthday honours roll, where he is joined by the former prime minister Scott Morrison and film-making couple Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin. Adams was made a member of the order in 1987, then an officer in 1992. At the age of 85, he can now add the suffix AC – denoting Australia’s highest civilian honour – to his name. “It’s good, isn’t it, given I left school at 15,” he said.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Michael Kalenderian |Rafqa Touma |Caitlin Cassidy |Shelley Hepworth |Carly Earl |Sanjana Jose | +2 more
Boiled eggs? Tofu? Avocado? Are these high-protein, low-sugar alternative mousse recipes the new way to make the chocolate dessert? TikTok certainly seems to think so. Guardian Australia staff put them through a taste test so you can decide if you should try making these at home – or give them a miss and keep scrolling instead• ‘My face is leaking’: taste testing the spicy ramen deemed too dangerous for Denmark
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Daisy Dumas
Australia’s defence minister Richard Marles has lauded the US’s strategic commitment to the Indo-Pacific as“deeply welcome” amid the risk of global nuclear proliferation, while calling for the stabilising force of liberal trade in the region. In an address at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday, Marles said the region had become the “world’s most consequential strategic arena”.
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