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Miranda devine what the f k are you talking about
Miranda Devine (born 1960s) is an Australian columnist and writer noted for her conservative stance on a range of social and political issues. Her column, formerly printed twice weekly in Fairfax Media newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald, now appears in the News Limited newspapers Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Melbourne's Sunday Herald Sun and Perth's Sunday Times. She hosted The Miranda Devine Show, a weekly syndicated radio show on Sydney station 2GB. The show ended in 2015.
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- Miranda devine what the f k are you talking about
- 10 june 2017 miranda devine curse of the frightbats feminism s final salvo
- Life and career
- Commentary and controversy
- References
10 june 2017 miranda devine curse of the frightbats feminism s final salvo
Life and career
Devine is the daughter of veteran journalist, editor and conservative columnist Frank Devine. She and her two younger sisters spent considerable parts of their youth overseas while their father was working as a foreign correspondent for Australian newspapers and, later, edited various American newspapers. While living in Tokyo, Devine and her sisters attended an American International School and learned to speak Japanese fluently. A devout Roman Catholic like her father, she completed her high school education at Loreto Kirribilli, a Catholic girls' private school in Sydney. After school, she completed a mathematics degree at Macquarie University. She joined the CSIRO in their textile physics division, where she worked for four years. She then completed a one-year graduate program at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University in Chicago.
On 6 August 2010, The Daily Telegraph announced that Devine would be returning as a columnist for both The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph.
She describes herself "As a Catholic and a mother".
Commentary and controversy
Devine is a friend of fellow conservative columnist Tim Blair, who said of her, "She's got good antennae. She can read people which is why she accurately predicts election results". When interviewed for an April 2007 article in The Australian about hate mail received by female columnists, Devine commented, "You are contesting ideas and you have to do it in a polarising way. When you write a column, you can't sit on the fence".
In their book Silencing Dissent (Allen & Unwin), Clive Hamilton and Sarah Maddison accuse Devine of belonging to a "syndicate of right-wing commentators who receive favour from the Howard Government."
In 2011, Devine used the news of Australian federal government minister Penny Wong's decision to parent a child with her female partner as the basis of a column in which she argued that the 2011 riots in England were the result of a "fatherless society".
In 2015, Devine sparked considerable controversy after claiming that "women abusing welfare" were the main cause of domestic violence. According to Devine, "If you want to break the cycle of violence, end the welfare incentive for unsuitable women to keep having children to a string of feckless men".