Chip Le Grand
@Melbchief
Chief reporter for The Age newspaper.
They are coming out of the woodwork this morning. This is from a reader in a nice part of Melbourne, written a week after a synagogue was torched in the city.
A more detailed response into some of the delusional comments I have seen, since we published our Victorian State poll. May 3rd wasn’t an outlier - it was a confirmation. Recent state-based polling in Victoria shows the trend is hardening. The Coalition’s support continues to…
Cheaper than an "I hate Jews" T-shirt, I supppose.
@grok is Chip Le Grand, the chief reporter of The Age, jewish?
I’m proud of my paper for taking a stance on this. No one disputes the right to protest. That doesn’t mean it is right to protest. Not when there is clear evidence your actions are doing Jewish people harm. theage.com.au/politics/victo…
The hatred of Jews is now so ingrained in Melbourne’s pro-Palestinian protest movement they can’t temper their vitriol two days after a synagogue in the city was fire bombed. The war in Gaza is horrific but something is seriously wrong here. theage.com.au/national/victo…
Find it amusing how we have a 13-candidate contest for the seat called Calwell when its namesake would have blocked about nine of them from being in the country.
This is disingenuous @angijones. The right wing extremism tag clearly refers to the neo-Nazis who gate crashed the 2023 rally, not the women who organised it. The story, consistent with my reporting over the past two years, makes explicit this distinction.
Many don’t read beyond the headlines or images sadly. It’s also despicable how @theage put Jasmine next to Nazi salutes and tagged the online article “far right extremism” Expected better from @Melbchief False associations like that will get women like me killed.
Spotted! The first ‘bundled out’ of the tennis summer! #BundledOut
Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Neil Paterson was involved in a verbal altercation with a Haileybury college parent when he got stuck in school pick-up traffic. theage.com.au/national/victo…
'The fate of Hezbollah is tied not just to Lebanon but to the broader geopolitical struggles in the Middle East' ✍️ Jonathan Sacerdoti spectator.co.uk/article/can-le…
Kudos to Katy Barnett for writing this. We are witnessing despicable antisemitism @UniMelb and other universities but it takes courage for academics and administrators to call it out. theage.com.au/national/victo…
An enterprising production company should put these two old blokes in a Sydney flat for a year. It’d make a hilarious reality TV show.
In today’s media watchdog column Gerard Henderson attacks a fellow columnist (me) for a recent column about “near death experiences”. Gerard fails to acknowledge that reading a Henderson column is an NDE.
The MSO saga should be cause for a serious rethink of how we approach the management and governance of publicly funded arts companies. Pay-outs and NDAs might have uses in the corporate world but it seems bizarre to employ them at an orchestra.theage.com.au/culture/music/…
Who could have thought demonization of Zionism would lead to the exclusion of Jews from public spaces? Who could have thought it might affect *leftist* Jews’ book tours? “Tell comrade Stalin, there’s been a terrible mistake!” Progressive Jews’ inability to learn from their own…
Breaking? We’re already broken. theage.com.au/sport/in-a-pos…
Don’t tell anyone but it is a cracking time to visit Paris right now. With regular tourists avoiding the Olympic city and Parisians on vacation, the streets are quiet, the museums aren’t crowded and you can take your pick of any restaurant in town. lemonde.fr/en/economy/art…
It’ll take you a bit longer to read this than it took Cam McEvoy to win the 50m, but worth your time. theage.com.au/sport/swimming…
The final Olympic predictions are in. If they hold true, Australia and the host nation are both in for bumper two weeks. (Editor’s note: Gracenote’s predictions about the Australian team missed in Rio but were spot on in Tokyo) theage.com.au/sport/these-ar…
