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Federal Political Reporter at The Australian 📰 [email protected] 📩 Press Gallery📍

Canberra
Joined December 2018
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A Rising Tide protestor has managed to sneak into the XXXX brewery in Queensland during @PeterDutton_MP’s visit, just minutes into the first stop of the Coalition’s election campaign. #Auspol2025 #Election2025
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Peter Dutton is beginning is campaign in the Greens-held seat of Brisbane at the iconic XXXX brewery. The Coalition is hoping to win Brisbane back, as well as the bordering seat of Ryan. #auspol #Election2025
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On first full day of Coalition election campaign, @PeterDutton_MP says Australians will feel bill relief by the end of the year thanks to his domestic gas reserve policy. “By the end of this year, this calendar year, we can bring that gas into the system.” #auspol #Election2025
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Almost a year on from the referendum, Indigenous leaders shine new light on the events leading up to October 14 as part of this top class investigation by @Chambersgc and @paigeataylor Read it 👇🏻 shorturl.at/Cbd6P
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Hannah Friebel’s death by suicide after a debt was raised against her by the NDIS has triggered calls in parliament for more protections for participants to prevent further harm #auspol theaustralian.com.au/nation/…
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Hannah was just 27 when she died by suicide, after the NDIS raised a debt of $28,000 against her in rejected claims. Her parents are now trying to make sure what happened to Hannah doesn’t happen to another family. Full story: theaustralian.com.au/nation/…
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A piece of radioactive equipment has been “misplaced” by a steel works company in South Australia. EPA says there’s no risk to public safety. theaustralian.com.au/nation/…
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New sex discrimination commissioner Anna Cody warns companies will face remedial action if they fail to abide by the “positive duty” designed to stamp out harassment and discrimination in workplaces from December. theaustralian.com.au/nation/…
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Sad but poignant yarn from @RemyVarga 👇🏻 bushfire victims left living in sheds and shipping containers after the business owner disappears from south coast.
INVESTIGATION: Andrew Lennox arrived on the NSW south coast in the aftermath of Black Summer, a big talker promising big things to people who had just lost everything in catastrophic bushfires. Then he vanished theaustralian.com.au/nation/…
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Replying to @SenatorThorpe
@SenatorThorpe takes to the floor of th upper house to accuse Liberal Senator @VanSenate of being a perpetrator and sexually assaulting her. The Liberal senator was making a speech about setting the standard of behaviour in parliament. #auspol
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#EXCLUSIVE @billshortenmp has “challenged” the NDIS to contact people on the scheme waiting to leave hospital just 4 days after being notified they’re ready for discharge in an ambitious plan to solve the bed block in hospitals #auspol theaustralian.com.au/nation/…
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Registers have opened for the Midwinter Ball Auction!! Audition items for charity balls are usually like trips overseas —- but at the Midwinter Ball it’s things like watching the NRL with @JEChalmers or a round of golf with @RichardMarlesMP 😂 register: ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_dmd=…
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Karen Andrews calls on Morrison to go
BREAKING - former home affairs minister @karenandrewsmp is calling on @ScottMorrisonMP to resign: "I had absolutely no knowledge and was not told by the PM, PMO nor the department secretary. This undermines the integrity of government," she tells @australian #auspol
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Excited for this👇🏻👇🏻 The last few years have been a blur so having all that unprescedented madness put into a book by my colleagues is 👌🏼
Plagued – the inside story of Australia’s 2 years of hell - is a forensic account of the pandemic, China, global competition and political fallout. Stoked to have worked on my first book with Simon Benson over the past 24-months. Pre-order your copy here booktopia.kh4ffx.net/jW3LJZ
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Perpetrators of tech facilitated abuse said they felt a need to retain control over their victims, most of whom were former intimate partners. theaustralian.com.au/busines…
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Was incredible talking to Susan Scott, @ozgravityguru, about black holes, neutron stars and all things gravity - she now joins people like Stephen Hawking after being chosen to be part of a prestigious group of scientist and researchers theaustralian.com.au/nation/…
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There used to be over 200 ADF personnel helping in aged care, but last Friday there were just 15. The sector is urging this be ramped back up and extended beyond the august 12 deadline theaustralian.com.au/nation/…
Queensland gov indicates stealthing laws could be on the table: “The community is clear that they want stronger action on this, and the Palaszczuk government wants to make sure Queensland’s laws are up to date with community expectations.” #auspol theaustralian.com.au/nation/…
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State and territory representatives are meeting tomorrow at a Roundtable convened by @TheAusInstitute to discuss laws making stealthing explicitly illegal, as the ACT and Tasmania have done #auspol theaustralian.com.au/nation/…
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When @MarkMcGowanMP says WA is better than the east coast. That @DanielAndrewsMP side eye… followed by @Dom_Perrottet quipping “you’re a shocker”#auspol
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