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Sydney artist Khaled Sabsabi dropped from Venice Biennale junket, not cancelled

Feb 16, 2025 | dailytelegraph.com.au | Joe Hildebrand

Don't miss out on the headlines from Opinion. Followed categories will be added to My News. Surely it is only a matter of time before they storm the Bastille – and any drinks waiter on opening night will know what that feels like. The cause of their revolutionary zeal this time around is the decision to withdraw Sydney artist Khaled Sabsabi as Australia’s representative at the Venice Biennale – the world’s most prestigious and pretentious arts festival.
‘Joining the city together’: Metro connects Sydney to its future

Aug 18, 2024 | news.com.au | Joe Hildebrand

A city is only as strong as what holds it together. Not just in some abstract way but as in cold hard steel. John Bradfield knew this when more than a century ago he designed the first Sydney rail network and that great backbone of the city, the Harbour Bridge. Most of us don’t see the Harbour Bridge every day but it is still our most defining landmark, not just because of what it looks like but because of what it does: Joining the city together.
In politics, cost of living beats fascist toilets every day of the week

Aug 17, 2024 | couriermail.com.au | Joe Hildebrand

Of all the potential answers to the question, “tell me you’re a Marxist without telling me you’re a Marxist”, the phrase, “fascist graves are gender neutral toilets” would have to be among the strongest responses. And indeed this phrase was sported by protesters from a group called “Trans Queer Solidarity” in Melbourne over the weekend — as was, of course, the obligatory Palestinian flag. The group were protesting against a so-called women’s rights demonstration they accused of being anti-trans.
‘Dream job’: Aussies offered $10,000 carrot to shift into teaching

May 5, 2024 | news.com.au | Joe Hildebrand |Talara McHugh

Jack Lo Russo always wanted to be a teacher but ended up doing a decade in IT before a new $10,000-a-year scholarship allowed him to make the switch to his dream job. The federal government had 3000 applications for its first 1000 scholarships under its Be That Teacher campaign, and another 4000 will be handed out in coming years.
‘Dream job’: Aussies offered $10,000 carrot to shift into teaching

May 5, 2024 | adelaidenow.com.au | Joe Hildebrand |Talara McHugh

Jack Lo Russo always wanted to be a teacher but ended up doing a decade in IT before a new $10,000-a-year scholarship allowed him to make the switch to his dream job. The federal government had 3000 applications for its first 1000 scholarships under its Be That Teacher campaign, and another 4000 will be handed out in coming years.
A common thread to three shocking incidents that left us in shock

Apr 18, 2024 | couriermail.com.au | Joe Hildebrand

In just three days the three biggest stories of the year dropped like bombs across Sydney. The first was a shockingly violent, meaningless and random attack that came out of nowhere. The second was the result of years of plotting and intrigue by supposed political and media masterminds that collapsed in a farcical heap at the hands of a Federal Court judgment. And the third was an ugly assault on a man of the cloth in a house of God that provoked an even uglier response from a mob of thousands.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese trolled on social media over his engagement to Jodie Haydon

Feb 15, 2024 | dailytelegraph.com.au | Joe Hildebrand

Politics has always been a brutal affair but in this country there was once at least a fig leaf of decency to it. Public figures would be attacked and their character trashed but there has always been an unwritten rule that some things were beyond the pale — namely families or partners and periods of grief or poor health. If you had to put it on a cue card it would be pretty simple: Steer clear of anything involving births, deaths and marriages.
The only way PM Anthony Albanese will win the next election

Dec 14, 2023 | news.com.au | Joe Hildebrand

OPINIONFor Anthony Albanese to win the next election, new Queensland Premier Steven Miles has to lose his. The good news is that both these things will almost certainly happen. There is a strong Australian tradition of punters voting one way at a state election and then the opposite at a federal level. In 1992, Victorians elected Jeff Kennett in a landslide. The following year they produced the miracle result that delivered Paul Keating “the sweetest victory of all”.
Alan Jones, Bruce Lehrmann expose ‘unholy trinity’ plaguing Australia

Dec 7, 2023 | news.com.au | Joe Hildebrand

OPINIONIt is perhaps a sign of the times that in the lead up to the purest and happiest holiday of Christmas, the news is awash with stories of sorrow and shame. On the global scale there is of course the horror of war between Israel and Gaza, with evermore unimaginably gruesome details of Hamas’s October attack and the ever-rising death toll in the strip as Israel seeks to wipe out the terror group.
Harry, Meghan’s ‘self-obsession’ exposed amid explosive ‘racist royal’ claim

Nov 30, 2023 | news.com.au | Joe Hildebrand

There are currently two potential flashpoints for World War III: A Cold War-esque conflict that is running red hot between Russia and Ukraine and an existential battle for survival in the Holy Lands between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. On top of this is a cost-of-living crisis that is crippling almost all Western nations — not least of all Australia — and a crisis that has always been eternal in the developing world.