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Melissa Hoyer

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
3
Latest publication
Sep 8, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Brisbane Times
Top 100K sites
Earliest in this view
Jul 20, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Melissa Hoyer

    Work ageism is not getting any better, so I’ve decided to take matters into my own hands (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. A while back I had an idea I was genuinely excited about – good, well-formed, exactly the kind of thing I know about after many years in my work game. I put it forward. They loved it. “Yup, we must do it”, they enthused. After a while, nothing came back. Not a no, just silence, which if you’ve worked long enough in any creative industry you learn to read as its own kind of answer. Anyway, months l

  2. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Melissa Hoyer

    I cried when the council cut down my tree. I did not see that coming (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. For 27 years, a huge dense-canopied Harpephyllum caffrum, a South African Wild Plum (or a tree with a ridiculous number of leaves that always landed in my backyard), stood on the pavement outside my house. It was, by any measure, just a very, very old and elegant tree, owned by the city long before I arrived, so technically it’s not mine. It gave my house shade, a canopy and some dappled ambience.

  3. Article · Jul 20, 2026 · Melissa Hoyer

    Australia’s hooked on cheap gear. It’s not a good look (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Let me be upfront: I am not writing from some pristine, capsule-wardrobe moral high ground. I’ve done the late-night online poke around, added a few things to a cart because they looked good on an Insta stranger, but to have the parcel arrive with five pieces of fast fashion rubbish and – kind of maddeningly – one genuine gem that I still wear. That’s the trap many of us fall into. It’s not that f

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