tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84852095000763710282024-03-13T16:55:42.208-07:00Chasing Chaos My name is Tracey Shelton.
I have been working in the Middle East covering war and humanitarian crises since 2010. This blog is about how life continues in the middle of chaos, and the struggles and rewards of life as a conflict reporter. Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-33690755009814642572018-07-27T05:58:00.000-07:002018-07-27T05:59:00.631-07:00What is Terrorism?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">You may think you know what terrorism is, but if you're picturing an </span></span><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Islamic</span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> attack on the West you're not even close to knowing the full extent of what terrorism means, where it happens and who decides what is and what isn't terrorism. <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-21/how-the-word-terrorism-is-used-and-misused-across-the-globe/9862124">Click here to find out.</a></span></span></span></div>
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Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-91020363113507562462018-06-27T21:00:00.000-07:002018-07-13T21:02:20.561-07:00China's eerie ghost cities<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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All across China, there are dozens of entire cities completely empty with almost no population at all, but still the building continues. While some say this construction is a debt fuelled waste, others praise China for forward-thinking urban planning, describing this mass construction like buying a shirt that's two sizes too big for a growing boy.<br />
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To view the full video and written report you can visit <b><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-27/china-ghost-cities-show-growth-driven-by-debt/9912186">this link.</a></b><br />
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Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0China35.86166 104.19539699999996-12.676611999999999 21.578209499999957 84.399932 -173.18741550000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-92057183435851857872018-06-23T20:00:00.000-07:002018-07-13T20:03:14.012-07:00Syria: If 'the cradle' falls<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white;">After brutally crushing Eastern Ghouta, the Syrian government now have their sites set on Daraa known as "the cradle of the revolution". Taking this last rebel enclave in the south would not only be a symbolic victory for the government, but would also consolidate </span><span style="background-color: white;">government </span><span style="background-color: white;">territory. Will it be enough to ease the conflict? <b><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-23/cradle-of-the-revolution-why-daraa-is-next/9809420">Click here to read the full report.</a></b></span><br />
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Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0Daraa, Syria32.626434 36.10330610000005432.572939500000004 36.022625100000056 32.6799285 36.183987100000053tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-9273896182782164892018-06-05T23:25:00.002-07:002018-07-13T04:06:32.709-07:00'So many kids were dying'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I first met Robyn back in 2006 while researching a story on the then 10-year-old Sok Mao who had just been diagnosed by Robyn as having Haemophilia. The response to Sok Mao's story was overwhelming and he ended up with sponsorship for medication for the next 12 years, but that still left a lot of other kids with blood disorders in need.<br />
Since then Robyn's work has expanded to include fundraising, training, setting up lab equipment and procedures and setting up the Cambodia Haemophilia Association which opened the way for treatment to be donated to other Haemophiliacs.<br />
Sok Mao is now 22 and I had the privilege of meeting him again last month.<br />
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Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0Phnom Penh, Cambodia11.5563738 104.9282098999999611.0586033 104.28276289999995 12.054144299999999 105.57365689999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-26009865207136446472018-04-17T04:40:00.000-07:002018-07-13T04:42:38.006-07:00Facial recognition technology<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #111111;"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-17/chinese-man-caught-by-facial-recognition-arrested-at-concert/9668608"><b>Find out more by clicking here.</b></a></span></span></span></div>
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Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0China35.86166 104.19539699999996-12.676611999999999 21.578209499999957 84.399932 -173.18741550000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-73794608126546556122018-04-12T03:20:00.000-07:002018-07-13T04:43:19.080-07:00Why Eastern Ghouta?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0Damascus, Syria33.5138073 36.27652790000001933.4078883 36.115166400000021 33.6197263 36.437889400000017tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-37029042902397844462018-02-07T02:33:00.000-08:002018-07-13T19:09:36.223-07:00'My heart is breaking'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Libyan gunmen have block hundreds of unarmed families from returning to their home town Tawergha after seven years of forced displacement, burning their tents and threatening them with heavy weapons. The families were driven from their homes during the Libyan revolution because they sided with then ruler Muammar Gaddafi. <b style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-07/hundreds-of-families-blocked-from-return-to-tawergha/9393640">Click here for the full story.</a></b><br />
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Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0Tawergha, Libya32.0148525 15.05574150000006731.799456500000005 14.733018000000067 32.2302485 15.378465000000068tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-92217937066489535752018-01-21T20:19:00.000-08:002018-07-13T04:19:24.304-07:00'We will tear them down'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yet another front has opened up in Syria putting NATO allies the US and Turkey in direct confrontation. After a week of warnings about the offensive, President Erdogan has launched an attack on the Kurds in the city of Afrin with army, tanks, airstrikes and Syria rebel fighters loyal to them. The US support the Kurds and have troops embedded with them in other areas. Relations are tense to say the least.<br />
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Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0Afrin, Syria36.5122781 36.86538910000001636.4867526 36.825048600000017 36.537803600000004 36.905729600000015tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-37927708820961656432018-01-18T17:47:00.000-08:002018-07-13T04:07:59.843-07:00Red panda rescue<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0Laos19.85627 102.49549612.154177999999998 92.16834750000001 27.558362 112.8226445tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-75931193043006018262018-01-16T16:59:00.000-08:002018-07-13T04:08:21.371-07:00'Playing with fire'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0Algeria28.033886 1.65962600000000290.19921450000000007 -39.648967999999996 55.868557499999994 42.96822tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-32547471084347152462018-01-03T17:58:00.000-08:002018-02-21T20:31:21.689-08:00Trump tweets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My day was filled with yet more reports on antagonising tweets from Donald Trump, who in just three days of 2018 has managed to p off Palestine, Pakistan, Iran, the Democrats and journalists (did I miss anyone?) all in just 280 characters. But he still had time <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948355557022420992">to argue back and forth with Kim Jong Un</a> about whose nuclear button is the "biggest". No seriously!<br />
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Yes these are two of the most powerful men in the world. It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry.<br />
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Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0Washington, USA47.7510741 -120.740138542.2334901 -131.067287 53.268658099999996 -110.41299000000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-55759617006931943792018-01-02T17:08:00.000-08:002018-07-13T04:22:22.855-07:00Iraq revenge killings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A new report claims 70 Arab men, women and children have been killed by Yazidi armed forces in northern Iraq in a spate of revenge killings. But Yazidi groups dispute the claims and say they are yet to see any justice for the thousands killed by Islamic State fighters and more than 6,000 women forced into sexual slavery.<br />
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Al Qaeda are in the middle of a deadly feud in Syria. Key leaders have been assassinated and many detained amid accusations and threats. In the middle of it all is a push toward a more moderate line by Syrian leaders, while hardliners loyal to al Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahri see this less radical Islamic rule as betrayal. </div>
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Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0Idlib, Syria35.9310271 36.64177770000003435.8795951 36.561096700000036 35.9824591 36.722458700000033tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-40607996928870003942017-12-21T16:03:00.000-08:002018-07-13T04:20:13.535-07:00Nepal's last dancing bears rescued<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I just wrote this story for ABC on the dramatic overnight rescue of two sloth bears. Rangila and Sridevi were the last two bears in Nepal being forced to 'dance' for tourists, a practice that is much crueler than it sounds. They have been transfered to a wildlife rescue centre for treatment.<br />
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Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0Nepal28.394857 84.12400821.256389999999996 73.796859500000011 35.533324 94.4511565tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-85931068337233002062017-12-04T19:06:00.000-08:002018-01-03T19:07:24.979-08:00News producer - ABC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Just started my new job for ABC in the Melbourne office. Strange change to be working out of an office in the city but it's a cool team and looking forward to doing a lot of my own stories as well as managing <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/world/">this World page.</a><br />
Great to be back in the middle of things!</div>
Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0Melbourne VIC, Australia-37.8136276 144.96305759999996-39.415753599999995 142.38127059999997 -36.2115016 147.54484459999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-83831988741849826582017-10-26T02:08:00.000-07:002018-01-02T17:07:23.282-08:00Throwback Thursday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 12px;">In 2009, Victoria experienced some of the countries most destructive bushfires in history. 173 people died in the Black Saturday bushfires and 414 were injured. By October, the forest was sprouting again with new growth and the blackened bark gave way to fresh new trees. The result is beauty missed the harsh reality of life in the Australian climate. </span><br />
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Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0Marysville VIC 3779, Australia-37.5083939 145.74742049999998-37.7098889 145.42469699999998 -37.3068989 146.07014399999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-29147276285175461102017-10-06T01:33:00.000-07:002018-02-21T20:28:06.770-08:00Eden in Iraq<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helveticaneue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Today is the opening of Eden in Iraq, an exhibition of environmental art, engineering and design at the National Design Centre in Singapore. The exhibition features photography and video from my work in the Iraqi marshlands and the Kurdish mountains. If you happen to be in Singapore between now and October 20, come past and check it out.</span><br />
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Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0طريق ناصرية - جبايش، Chibayish, Iraq30.956413244067242 46.9692993164062530.738317244067243 46.646575816406248 31.174509244067242 47.292022816406252tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485209500076371028.post-86267855180495878302017-10-05T23:56:00.000-07:002018-01-02T16:10:46.796-08:00Welcome to my Blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Welcome to my new blog.<br />
I have been planing to start a blog for many years but never had the time. Unfortunately, now that I'm largely working out of Australia, I have the time but not as many interesting stories to post. But I do have some things coming up that will hopefully interest you.<br />
Thanks for reading and hopefully following.<br />
Cheers,<br />
Tracey</div>
Tracey Sheltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095130541158470963noreply@blogger.com0Melbourne VIC, Australia-37.8136276 144.96305759999996-39.415753599999995 142.38127059999997 -36.2115016 147.54484459999995