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Jarni Blakkarly

Jarni Blakkarly is an Australian journalist of Malaysian heritage. He has lived and worked as a journalist in Malaysia extensively over the last half a decade and is now a reporter for SBS World News based in Melbourne. He is fascinated by Mahathir Mohamad and is working on a book about the man. Follow him on Twitter at @Jarniblakkarly.

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The Rise and Fall of Mahathir Mohamad

The Rise and Fall of Mahathir Mohamad

Jarni Blakkarly

Malaysia Showcase: It was one of Malaysia’s biggest ever political upheavals—a 92-year-old former dictator coming back from the wilderness to defeat his own former party after 61 years. How did Mahathir Mohamad win over his old enemies and bring on such a historic result? And how did it all come crashing down?

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The Rise and Fall of Mahathir Mohamad

The Rise and Fall of Mahathir Mohamad

Jarni Blakkarly

Adopted Identity

Adopted Identity

Jarni Blakkarly

What happens when you fall down the rabbit hole of overseas adoption and identity in Australia? ‘When my brother and I were adopted it made the local paper. There were that few non-white people in the neighbourhood.’ – Amy Coe Amy Coe and I sit at a busy cafe in Carlton, tucked in behind the […]

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Adopted Identity

Adopted Identity

Jarni Blakkarly

Fitzroy’s Prayer Flags: Siphoning the Buddha Out of Buddhism

Fitzroy’s Prayer Flags: Siphoning the Buddha Out of Buddhism

Jarni Blakkarly

In Australia, and in much of the West, Buddhism is cool. It’s considered edgy, spiritual, interesting and is often portrayed as a polar opposite of Christianity – a religion that garners frustration and inspires negative opinions from a public weary and disillusioned by the Christian society they were raised in. Buddhism is a vast and […]

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Fitzroy’s Prayer Flags: Siphoning the Buddha Out of Buddhism

Fitzroy’s Prayer Flags: Siphoning the Buddha Out of Buddhism

Jarni Blakkarly