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Maria Petrakis

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Journalist. ExBureau Chief @Bloomberg Greece, Reuters, LA Times, Eureka Report & Comms@NRC. All opinion, complaint my own. Retweets are fyi.

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Freelance@LA Times. Ex-Bloomberg Greece, Cyprus bureau chief. Ex-Reuters, Comms@NRC, Finance News@EurekaReport. Fires, earthquakes, riots, bailouts, Olympics, new currencies, record debt restructurings. Bring it on. All opinion, complaint my own. Happy to be home.

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The Value of Vocation

The Value of Vocation

Vocational skills training has multiple economic benefits

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Falling Out of Favor

Falling Out of Favor

Some countries are turning against foreign buyers as soaring property prices become political

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Falling Out of Favor

Falling Out of Favor

Some countries are turning against foreign buyers as soaring property prices become political

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Weekend Briefing, Edition 21, 2023: Follow The Leader

Weekend Briefing, Edition 21, 2023: Follow The Leader

Maria Petrakis delivers a packed Briefing, tackling the work still to do by central banks, Britain and migrat…

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Weekend Briefing, Edition 21, 2023: Follow The Leader

Weekend Briefing, Edition 21, 2023: Follow The Leader

Maria Petrakis delivers a packed Briefing, tackling the work still to do by central banks, Britain and migrat…

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Does the government really collect more money from HECS than it does from the PRRT?

Does the government really collect more money from HECS than it does from the PRRT?

Executive director of The Australia Institute, Richard Dennis, says the government collects more money from H…

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After this Australian town burned down, experts warned against rebuilding. Nobody listened

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By Max Kin, Maria Petrakis
| Arizona Daily Sun
MARYSVILLE, Australia — As fire raged several hillsides away from their house on the afternoon of Feb. 7, 2009, David Barton reassured his wife: “Don’t worry. Entire towns don’t burn down.” By that evening, as he watched a 150-foot-high wall of flames closing in, it was clear he had been very wrong. “Everything so very quickly turned so very ugly,” he recalled.
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After this Australian town burned down, experts warned against rebuilding. Nobody listened

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By Max Kim, Maria Petrakis
| The Columbian
MARYSVILLE, Australia — As fire raged several hillsides away from their house on the afternoon of Feb. 7, 2009, David Barton reassured his wife: “Don’t worry. Entire towns don’t burn down.” By that evening, as he watched a 150-foot-high wall of flames closing in, it was clear he had been very wrong. “Everything so very quickly turned so very ugly,” he recalled.
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After this Australian town burned down, experts warned against rebuilding. Nobody listened

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By Max Kim, Maria Petrakis
| The Charlotte Observer
Construction continues on a new house on the one year anniversary of "Black Saturday", Australia's worst ever bushfires and worst peace-time disaster, on Feb. 7, 2010, in Strathewen, Australia. The fires, of which there were over 400 recorded, resulted in 173 confirmed deaths, and over 2000 homes destroyed, with entire towns badly damaged and some almost completely destroyed.
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