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Kate Lyons @MsKateLyons

Reporter | Guardian Australia | kate.lyons@theguardian.com | DMs are open

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Kate Lyons@MsKateLyons
8 Nov 2022
Fiji has already relocated 6 villages due to climate change, with 42 earmarked for urgent relocation. I travelled around the country to try and understand how it is planning to achieve this mammoth task. How to move a country: Fiji’s bold relocation plan theguardian.com/environment/…

How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels

In Fiji, the climate crisis means dozens of villages could soon be underwater. Relocating so many communities is an epic undertaking. But now there is a plan – and the rest of the world is watching

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A pretty amazing first ever Parkrun - running and chatting with @ProfRAScolyer and Katie Nicoll. Thank you for sharing your jog and your thoughts.
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It’s always a pleasure to catch up with friends & everyone at Parkrun (5k walk/run on Saturdays). It was fun catching up with The Guardian’s Kate Lyons recently too! theguardian.com/australia-ne… @GuardianAustral @parkrunAU @SydneyLHD @Sydney_Uni @AllenAndUnwin @gmaddox #Brainstorm #glioblastoma
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Mehreen Faruqi and her legal team celebrate outside the Federal Court after a judge found that a tweet about her by Pauline Hanson breached Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
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Lisa Wilkinson addresses huge press pack outside the Federal Court following the finding in the Lehrmann defamation case today.
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"I think I got up to the point where I said 'omnishambles'" Justice Michael Lee says wryly, as the court resumes.
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"To remark that Mr Lehrmann is a poor witness is an understatement," says Lee. Though he goes on to say: "Brittany Higgins was also an unsatisfactory witness."
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“I am satisfied that in important respects, he told deliberate lies," Lee says of Lehrmann. “I would not accept anything he said except where it... was corroborated by contemporaneous document or a witness, whose evidence I accept.”
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Those who burn brightest, burn fastest. Liz Truss says in book Queen told her to ‘pace yourself’, admits she didn’t listen | theguardian.com/politics/202…

Liz Truss says in book queen told her to ‘pace yourself’, admits she didn’t listen

Ex-prime minister, who lasted just 49 days, says she struggled to cope with death of monarch and self-inflicted economic disaster

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Taylor Auerbach arrives to give evidence at the Federal Court in Sydney.
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New from me and @JennyValentish theguardian.com/australia-ne…

‘Your worst night out … but it never ends’: how the Pitch music festival descended into chaos and...

Festival staff claim medical facilities were overstretched and question why the event went ahead in soaring temperatures

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The story of Gaza’s destruction in 100 lives – a visual guide

If a population of 2.2 million were distilled into 100 people, here’s what each one would have experienced amid Israel’s attacks

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Kristine Ziwica@KZiwica
26 Feb 2024
Another excellent overview of today's public gender pay gap reporting in @GuardianAus from @MsKateLyons theguardian.com/world/2024/f…

Dozens of Australian businesses have gender pay gaps above 50%, landmark data reveals

Data showing nearly two-thirds of workplaces have a pay gap that favours men is being published in the hopes of ending disparity

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Back from maternity leave today and starting a new job - reporter for the Australian news team here at Guardian Aus. Hit me up with story ideas, news tips, all the good stuff. kate.lyons@theguardian.com
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Sad to be leaving the beautiful Pacific beat, but it will be in the excellent hands of my colleague Virginia, so Pacific folks, hit her up with pitches: virginia.harrison@theguardian.com
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Poking my head up from maternity leave to give this extraordinary and very beautiful bit of journalism a plug. Photos and reporting by the unfailingly impressive ⁦@_diamontaro⁩ Facing extinction, Tuvalu considers the digital clone of a country theguardian.com/world/2023/j…

Facing extinction, Tuvalu considers the digital clone of a country

As the climate emergency threatens its existence, the tiny Pacific nation is not only trying to reclaim physical land but create a ‘twin’ to survive in future

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“Australia is living with the legacy of these brutal policies: the broken lives of those detained, and an Australian population reckoning with this having been deliberately done, in their name and with their money.” from ⁦⁦@BenDohertyCorro⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Britain, be warned: with ‘stop the boats’ with policies you brutalise migrants – and damage...

This hostile approach to asylum helped the Australian right win elections, but it created divisions that still scar us, says Ben Doherty, a reporter for Guardian Australia

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I'm off to have a baby. The Pacific Project will continue under the wonderful direction of the Guardian Aus foreign desk. Email them at australia.foreign@theguardian.com with ideas, tips and pitches.
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"Often when there are mass deaths, families struggle with their relative being reduced to a statistic. In China, few were even given that courtesy." ‘It was all for nothing’: Chinese count cost of Xi’s snap decision to let Covid rip @heldavidson theguardian.com/world/2023/j…

‘It was all for nothing’: Chinese count cost of Xi’s snap decision to let Covid rip

After three years of lockdowns, the country was ill prepared for its abrupt ‘freedom’. Now, with some estimating 1m deaths, public anger is growing

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Eden Gillespie@edengillespie
22 Jan 2023
Thread: I've spoken with more than a dozen women who have had negative – sometimes terrifying – experiences after meeting captains through popular sailing websites. Their claims include sexual assault & harassment, while others were made to feel unsafe. theguardian.com/society/2023…

Stranded at sea: amateur female sailors speak of sexual abuse by captains they met online

Crew websites urged to do more to protect victims, who set off seeking adventure only to be trapped onboard with a predator

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This is such a great piece from @Rachwani91 A day at the beach: ‘Underwater I felt free from the politics of my existence for the first time’ theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…

A day at the beach: ‘Underwater I felt free from the politics of my existence for the first time’

The Cronulla riots drew an invisible border through Sydney. Though Mostafa Rachwani still feels their echo, the ocean is also a salve

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