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Angira BharadwajFederal Political Reporter

Angira Bharadwaj is the Federal Political Reporter for the Daily Telegraph based in the Canberra Press Gallery. Prior to that she worked as a State Political Reporter in the NSW Press Gallery. Angira has been at the masthead since 2017 and worked across politics, general news, health, features, lifestyle and entertainment.

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NSW

CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - October 17, 2024: eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant appears at the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 hearing at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

‘No fear’: eSafety Commissioner takes X, Meta to task

Australia’s online safety watchdog has “no fear or favour” for any tech bosses as she launches a scathing new report on the world’s top digital platforms.

EXCLUSIVENSW

Future Vic Conference by the Herald Sun at Crown Promenade.PM Anthony Albanese. Picture: David Caird

No comment: PM refuses to weigh into China briefing PNG

Anthony Albanese has declined to discuss revelations by The Sunday Telegraph that the Papua New Guinean government was tipped off by China about looming warship operations in our region.

Health

MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY 18, 2024: Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese Frankston gives a press conference at the Urgent Care Clinic in Frankston.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Luis Enrique Ascui

Albanese commits to 50 new Urgent Care Clinics

Anthony Albanese has brought back a signature 2022 health policy ahead of the upcoming federal election. Here’s what you’ll get under Labor.

UPDATEDNSW

Group of happy friends drinking and toasting beer at brewery bar restaurant - Friendship concept with young people having fun together at cool vintage pub - Focus on middle pint glass

Cheers! Dutton vows to match Albo’s beer tax freeze

Everything is going up — but maybe not your beer. Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton have both promised to freeze the tax on your schooner for the next two years.

ExclusiveNSW

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 15: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during a media conference on October 15, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has responded to the NSW government's announcement they would lift passenger caps and remove quarantine requirements for vaccinated international travellers from 1 November 2021. The Prime Minister clarified the rules would only apply to Australian citizens, residents and their immediate families. In the same press conference, Prime Minister Scott Morrison also confirmed he would attend 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

Scomo calls for ‘at least’ 50 per cent hike in defence spending

Former prime minister Scott Morrison has called on the Albanese government to increase Defence spending by at least 50 per cent after three Chinese warships conducted live-fire exercises off the Australian coast this week.

BreakingNews

Future Vic Conference by the Herald Sun at Crown Promenade. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Picture: David Caird

PM insists: ‘We stand with Ukraine’

Anthony Albanese reinforced Australia’s support for Ukraine after extraordinary scenes overnight where US president Donald Trump berated the war torn nation’ s leader Volodomir Zelensky.

NSW

This photograph taken on October 18, 2024 shows a wind farm, off Fecamp, northern France. (Photo by Lou BENOIST / AFP)

Off-shore wind farm on ice until after election

A controversial offshore wind project set for the Illawarra has been put on ice after staunch opposition from a group of locals.

EXCLUSIVENSW

LAUNCESTON, TASMANIA, NewsWire Photos. 23 FEBRUARY, 2025. Health Minister Mark Butler, speaking before the Prime Minister was to make a major speech about Laborâs plan to Build Australiaâs Future and Strengthening Medicare. Picture: NewsWire/ Scott Gelston

Labor’s eleventh-hour backflip on mental health funding

Labor has sought to reverse a pre-election nightmare by restoring funding to 13 mental health charities, hours after inquiries from The Telegraph.

ExclusiveNSW

ScoMo slaps down PM with two words over Chinese warships

Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has condemned PM Anthony Albanese’s response to bullying by Chinese warships off the Australian coast.

NSW

US president Donald Trump, ;eft, and Australian PM Anthony Albanese. right. Pictures: Getty Images/Supplied

‘A lot of acronyms’: Albanese downplays Trump’s major gaffe

Anthony Albanese has downplayed an embarrassing gaffe from US President Donald Trump where Australia’s nearly $400bn AUKUS deal with US got awkward.

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