Miranda Devine

Miranda Devine
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Known for Conservative Political writer and commentator
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Miranda Devine (born 1960s[1]) 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.[2]

Life and career

Devine is the daughter of journalist 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 attended an American International School and learned to speak Japanese fluently.[3] A devout Roman Catholic, she completed her high school education at Loreto Kirribilli, a Catholic girls' private school in Sydney. After school, she completed a BSc in mathematics at Macquarie University.[4] 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,[5] 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.[6]

She describes herself as "a Catholic and a mother".[7]

Views

White genocide

Devine has been accused by media of promoting the white genocide conspiracy theory and described as pivital in popularising the concept within Australian politics.[8][9][10] Referring to white South African refugees as "oppressed white, Christian, industrious, rugby and cricket-playing Commonwealth cousins",[11] she has claimed they would "integrate seamlessly" with European Australians.[12]

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".[3] 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".[13]

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."[14]

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".[15][16]

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".[17]

In 2017, she wrote that share bicycle schemes were a terror threat.[18]

In 2018, Devine advocated for the continuation of coal-fired electricity options; she has repeatedly suggested that climate change is a political conspiracy.[19]

References

  1. ↑ Devine, Frank (2009). Popping fifty corks. Quadrant, May 2009. Reprinted in: Devine, Frank (2009). Old & wiser: essays 2002 – 2009. Sydney: Quadrant Books. ISBN 9780980677805.
  2. ↑ Christensen, Nic (21 January 2016). "Miranda Devine pulls plug on Sunday night's Radio 2GB 'The Miranda Devine Show'". Mumbrella. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  3. 1 2 Diana Bagnall (24 November 2004). "Who is Miranda Devine?". The Bulletin.
  4. ↑ The Australian, 27 November 2017.
  5. ↑ http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/msj/index.html
  6. ↑ "Columnist Miranda Devine returns". The Daily Telegraph. 6 August 2010.
  7. ↑ Too many enemies are basking in George Pell’s situation, Daily Telegraph, 2 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "White Australians debate fast-track visas for Afrikaners fleeing land reform". New York Amsterdam News. 22 March 2018.
  9. ↑ "Aussie Minister Dutton the next prime minister, or the great divider?". Mail & Guardian. 22 March 2018.
  10. ↑ "The high price of 'white genocide' politics for Australia". The Sydney Morning Herald. 12 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "Peter Dutton's offer to white South African farmers started on the far right". The Guardian. 16 March 2018.
  12. ↑ "AllLivesMatter – white lives too". Spectator Australia. 16 March 2018.
  13. ↑ Sally Jackson (12 April 2007). "You've got hate mail: It's her job to have opinions, but does saying what they really think make female columnists particularly vulnerable?". The Australian.
  14. ↑ "How a right-wing, pro-Howard cabal is stifling debate", an excerpt from Silencing Dissent, printed in The Australian on 31 January 2007
  15. ↑ Devine, Miranda (14 August 2011). "The Problems of a Fatherless Society". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
  16. ↑ Deveny, Catherine (17 August 2011). "Why equal rights activists need Miranda Devine more than rallies". The Drum. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
  17. ↑ Noyes, Jenny (28 September 2015). "Miranda Devine column prompts domestic violence survivors to share #UnsuitableWomen stories". The Vine.
  18. ↑ City share bikes are a terrorist’s best friend, Daily Telegraph, 28 October 2017
  19. ↑ Smart meters energy crisis not reducing bills or..., Daily Telegraph, 7 February 2018
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