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Journalism

A disclosed point of view.

Columns, essays and reporting on politics, media, race, religion, migration, free speech and the small absurdities that expose larger systems.

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Punched in the Headlines

A news-satire column punching through political panic and media melodrama to find out what is real, what is inflated and who has started yelling.

30 July 2026Free speech · lawPauline Hanson’s racist tweet should still have been legal 24 July 2026India · diaspora politicsModi packed a Melbourne stadium. Days later, India’s ‘cockroaches’ filled the streets 17 July 2026Media · social cohesionThe greatest stoker of antisemitism and social disunity? The royal commission 10 July 2026Politics · policyFuck, marry, kill: Albanese government policy edition 3 July 2026Media · grievance politicsHow to become a right-wing grifter

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Elsewhere in print.

Longer essays, cultural criticism and reported commentary published across Australian and international outlets.

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Reporting · research · teaching

The joke is not a substitute for evidence.

Sami’s journalism sits beside his work as a broadcaster and lecturer in journalism at the University of Melbourne. The same interests recur across formats: how power is narrated, how institutions protect themselves and how satire can remain funny without becoming careless.

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