Deputy editor with @abcnews focusing on the Indo-Pacific - drop me a line! Views are my own, etc. ن
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13 Jun 2024
Win a Steam Deck and more in the #KHonSteam sweepstakes.
Enter here: KHonSteam.com
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Dan Smith retweeted
1 Jul 2023
If Elon's new limit to the number of tweets you can read per day is a permanent strategy, then that's a clear offramp for me here. I shall diminish, and go into the West
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28 Jun 2023
All they need to do is team up with @OfficialBlueyTV
28 Jun 2023
Olympic organisers have discovered a daunting task ahead of the 2032 Games – letting the world know Brisbane exists.
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23 Jun 2023
This is very cool - Polynesian canoe @hokuleacrew has set sail on a massive four-year voyage to circumnavigate the Pacific using traditional navigation and voyaging techniques. abc.net.au/pacific/hokulea-r…
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ABC’s international budget should grow as China spends billions on information war, inquiry told theguardian.com/media/2023/j…
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15 Jun 2023
This is a great interview by @McquireJacob with chef Joe Lam for Nesia Daily - he cooks a fusion of Samoan and Italian, and it sounds 🤌
Love reading about the intersection of food and culture.
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14 Jun 2023
me waiting for the postie to drop off my online order
13 Jun 2023
I’m in a weird second hand finds group on Facebook and this woman has the ACTUAL FALKOR FROM NEVER ENDING STORY IN HER GARAGE.
Community note
This photo was taken of a storage area at a New Jersey vintage store. Further, the prop is a replica and not the original from the movie.
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Dan Smith retweeted
30 May 2023
Episode 1 of 'Stories from the Pacific' drops today! Super excited for everyone to hear this new show and what a guest to kick us off... it's @kweenkong_ !!! #ABCPacific #StoriesFromThePacific #KweenKong
30 May 2023
When Thomas Fonua was 16, he had to choose between a professional rugby career or a life of dance — it was a decision that would change his life and see him become the first Pasifika queen on the hit show RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under as @kweenkong_
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29 May 2023
Get the latest in politics from across the Pacific region when you sign up to the ABC Pacific newsletter — direct to your inbox each week.
Sign up here: ab.co/45xdSYt
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29 May 2023
McGowan, McGoing, McGone
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Dan Smith retweeted
28 May 2023
🔥Something new is coming to ABC Radio Australia & ABC Pacific!🌊
Join Jacob McQuire and Michael Chow as they bring you Nesia Daily.
🕖 7AM 🇵🇬 every weekday.
📱abc.net.au/pacific/programs/…
📻 🇵🇬 101.9FM / 🇸🇧 107FM / 🇫🇯 106.6FM / 🇼🇸 102FM
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Dan Smith retweeted
27 May 2023
I decided to share my experience as the social media producer for @QandA
After Stan’s departure, I’ve seen a lot of finger-pointing by individuals and media organisations. I wrote this article as a reminder of how we could all be complicit.
abc.net.au/news/2023-05-28/q…
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Dan Smith retweeted
26 May 2023
We have something exciting coming to ABC Radio Australia!
🌊🌟 Stories from the Pacific w/ @BobbyMacumber 🔥🌴
31 May on @ABCPacific or everywhere you get your podcasts.
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25 May 2023
another one stuck getting throuez the suez
25 May 2023
Ship stuck in Suez Canal after becoming grounded, with refloat attempts ongoing dlvr.it/SpZqgQ
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Dan Smith retweeted
22 May 2023
Expressing opinions and having differing points of view are what makes us a great democracy. But racism doesn't and there's no place for it in public, or any debate. #IStandWithStan #werejectracism
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Dan Smith retweeted
19 May 2023
It was a pleasure having the Dili Allstars and Timor Oan'S in the studio for music conversation about the time they covertly smuggled cassettes into East Timor, an action which cemented them in the nation's independence narrative. Radio special: abc.net.au/pacific/dili-alls…
19 May 2023
Happy Restoration of Independence Day Timor-Leste! 🇹🇱
We invited the Dili Allstars into the ABC Radio Australia studios ahead of the celebration on Saturday to record their independence anthem Liberdade. Listen to the full performance and conversation: abc.net.au/pacific/dili-alls…
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Dan Smith retweeted
19 May 2023
#BREAKING A major 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Friday in the Pacific Ocean southeast of New Caledonia, triggering a tsunami warning, the US Geological Service says.
Tsunami waves possible within 1,000 km of the quake, says Pacific warning centre
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17 May 2023
Women have historically been excluded from church leadership — but in the Pacific, that's changing. There are 22 ordained women in the #Anglican Church's Diocese of Polynesia, a little less than half the number of ordained men.
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