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- Sydney v. Dubai - more similar than meets the eye
  I'm typing this on a dusty, wobbling morning in Dubai, on my way from Sydney to NYC where I'll be working on assignment for the Daily Mail for a while. As the plane pushed through a hazier sky than any I remember (is desert dust any different to ash clouds?), I had a familiar feeling, first compounded when I landed in India years ago: any fool can […]
- An unlikely pair: Sydney Film Festival and small bars
  Thanks to an unfortunately sprained ankle, I had the good fortune to fall in line for a free ticket to a sold-out Sydney Film Festival viewing on Tuesday night. The movie, which I'd never heard of, was Even the Rain, or, in its native Spanish, Tambien La Lluvia. It was a pleasure to watch - absolutely entertaining, raw, brilliant and visceral. The beaut […]
- From Tax to TEDx - Sydney's week that was
  There's a helluva brouhaha over here at the moment, centred around Cate Blanchett's cameo role in a recent ad that encourages Aussies to support Julia Gillard's oh-so-controversial Carbon Tax. Not only has poor old Cate waded into a (too) highly politicised slinging match, but she has walked into another great Aussie stickler: the tall poppy/c […]
- Gill v Bourdain at the Sydney Writers' Festival
  Now, I'm not one for fisticuffs but when I see something advertised as "Food Fighters", I want to see a fight. Of sorts. So you will understand my disappointment when, last week, this lacklustre Sydney Writers' Festival chaired session puttered to a weak little close, the previously buoyed punters around me affecting a collective shrug in […]

The Perilous Reef, feature story // 7 June 2011

Posted by daisy dumas on Tuesday, 7 June, 2011 · 1 Comment

THE PERILOUS REEF Three screens are flashing images of blueness at me. Blurred smudges of azure, navy, royal and aquamarine are punctuated by snatched glimpses of fins, smatters of pink, smears of bright yellow and the white fuzz of foaming water. I’m in the BBC’s Far North Queensland editing suite near Cairns – a windowless, … Read more

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Me and the BBC // 19 January 2011

Posted by daisy dumas on Wednesday, 19 January, 2011 · 1 Comment

Me, reporting live from the Brisbane floods for the BBC World Service’s World Update programme last Thursday. Aired midday GMT, 14th January 2011.

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