Geoff Thompson @geoff__thompson

Reporter, Background Briefing, ABC. Joined August 2010

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Annika Blau @annika_blau

3 years ago

You can read our full @BackgroundBrief investigation here: abc.net.au/news/2023-03-1… @geoff__thompson @mariochristo 2/2

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Background Briefing @BackgroundBrief

3 years ago

NEW STORY by @geoff__thompson - Blockade Australia shut down Sydney with climate change protests. Now they're fighting arrests in court abc.net.au/news/2022-08-1…

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Geoff Thompson @geoff__thompson

3 years ago

Should I stay or should I go now - and where? Imagine building a home 14 metres high, complete with a flood escape room only to have it fill with water? Lismore’s impossible choices. ⁦@BackgroundBrief⁩ podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/bac…

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Geoff Thompson @geoff__thompson

4 years ago

This is seriously fascinating. How Australia makes everything harder for everyone by only reluctantly embracing the rise of renewables. The end of Australia's biggest coal fired power plant abc.net.au/radionational/…

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Background Briefing @BackgroundBrief

4 years ago

When Omicron peaked, the number of aged care residents dying without coronavirus jumped too, new data reveals via @geoff__thompson abc.net.au/news/2022-03-2…

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Background Briefing @BackgroundBrief

4 years ago

NEW EPISODE: @geoff__thompson follows the dangerous journeys of three Afghan journalists as they attempt to flee the Taliban. Two of them succeed with the help of an Australian man who engineers an escape route for them from his Sydney home. Listen now👇 abc.net.au/radionational/…

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Geoff Thompson @geoff__thompson

4 years ago

Coming up at 8am on Radio National. How can pharmcists successfully vaccinate amidst a Delta outbreak if they don’t have adequate PPE or training? @BackgroundBrief

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Geoff Thompson @geoff__thompson

4 years ago

Are pharmacies in SW Sydney the canary in the coalmine for vaccine rollout if Delta continues to spread?

Background Briefing @BackgroundBrief

4 years ago

Are pharmacies in SW Sydney the canary in the coalmine for vaccine rollout if Delta continues to spread?

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4 years ago

"It's almost like Russian roulette"- Pharmacists warn the conversion of chemists into vaccination hubs will be under threat if staff continue to be classified as close contacts when they interact with COVID-positive people. @geoff__thompson abc.net.au/news/2021-08-0…

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Geoff Thompson @geoff__thompson

4 years ago

Great investigation this one. Turns out logged in UberEats riders aren’t always working for UberEats when they’re dead under a truck.

Background Briefing @BackgroundBrief

4 years ago

Great investigation this one. Turns out logged in UberEats riders aren’t always working for UberEats when they’re dead under a truck.

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Geoff Thompson @geoff__thompson

5 years ago

Tune in, turn on don’t drop out... The scientists and shamans of psychedelic retreats - Background Briefing - ABC Radio National abc.net.au/radionational/…

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Geoff Thompson @geoff__thompson

5 years ago

The ABC is right: Falun Gong has some dangerous teachings - ABC Religion & Ethics abc.net.au/religion/the-a…

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Background Briefing @BackgroundBrief

5 years ago

NEW EPISODE! In little over 2 months' time, the support payments keeping millions afloat through the pandemic are due to end. This week @geoff__thompson investigates how we're driving towards an economic cliff. abc.net.au/radionational/…

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Background Briefing @BackgroundBrief

5 years ago

The dominoes in the Aust economy are stacked in a row and one can easily topple several others. To show how, @geoff__thompson followed a single line of deferred debt, from a tenant to his landlord up to her landlord and then all the way up to the RBA. abc.net.au/news/2020-07-1…

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Mario Christodoulou @mariochristo

5 years ago

"I guess the reckoning is coming" @geoff__thompson tackles the debt monster and exposes a nation relying on other people's money. abc.net.au/radionational/…

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Geoff Thompson @geoff__thompson

5 years ago

Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Guy Debelle’s honours economics supervisor at Adelaide Uni was Bill Mitchell, one of the early founders of Modern Monetary Theory. Who knew? A 'looming monster' of hidden debt has been growing during coronavirus abc.net.au/news/2020-07-1…

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Geoff Thompson @geoff__thompson

6 years ago

The climate change problem worrying insurers more than fires up in 15 mins on @RadioNational ... Severe cyclones are spreading further south and it could mean tens of billions in damages - ABC News abc.net.au/news/2020-03-0…

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Geoff Thompson @geoff__thompson

6 years ago

There’s no journalist more tenacious than Andy Burns or so committed to unearthing buried truth.

Melbourne Press Club @MelbPressClub

6 years ago

There’s no journalist more tenacious than Andy Burns or so committed to unearthing buried truth.

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Background Briefing @BackgroundBrief

6 years ago

This week we have a Top End investigation by @JaneBardon1 into the real impact of fracking on Australia's emissions targets

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abc730 @abc730

7 years ago

Part two of our housing special tonight, with a focus on the credit crunch and how tighter lending practices are impacting Australians. #abc730 @geoff__thompson @aljmcdonald