They ve risked kidnap, rape, disease and death, all with the ambition of becoming international war correspondents. A new book looks at the Aussie women journalists who report on world conflicts.
Through Her Eyes: Australia's Women Correspondents from Hiroshima to Ukraine by Trevor Watson (9781743798898) boomerangbooks.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from boomerangbooks.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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the paris fashion show if i were ever sent there. it s sort of about conflict and best stories are in the heart of the conflict. so i personally as a journalist wanted to show people suffering, and help address those questions. and that s what i did all of my career. i went to all kinds of awful places and met my career was basically to meet people on the worst day of their life. that s what i did, and tell their story and hopefully garner some sympathy. and that s what was important to me. and there was a price to pay, obviously. part of what you do here, because you re telling this a love story, is that you have suffering and healing happening both in a male character and in a woman. talk to me about how you see the differences in how war is gendered and experienced. you know, when i began, there were not many women correspondents, no women cameramen. today there could be more than males all together. so first of all, it s a main male-female experience, pretty much equal righ
policy, and on keystone, interesting, while he did not issue a veto threat, he didn t say keystone was developed as other projects, and so one interesting point that i think you will like, yesterday s press conference, it was the annual end of the year press conference, and it was the first time ever that the president only called on women. so all women correspondents got called on. we have a couple weeks of vacation for the president. what does he have on his agenda? a lot on the agenda when he comes back. he just announced the immigration executive action. his top officials are going to spend a lot of time trying to implement and educating people haorbgs , who is eligible and who is not and those that are have the proper paperwork they need to sign up, and then he announced a