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Megan Palin is an award-winning journalist and US Correspondent based in New York. She has covered stories ranging from US presidential elections and high profile trials, to the coronavirus pandemic and human trafficking. But some of her favourite assignments occurred prior to her move to the Big Apple. They include traipsing through the remote regions of Australia with a prolific UFO hunter as he searched for aliens, and spending time with a nomadic Indigenous tribe in the NT Outback.

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Former NSW Police Commissioner Peter Ryan and former AFP agent Paul Gibbons.

Told to ‘harden up, princess’

PAUL Gibbons developed a debilitating mental illness through his service in the AFP. He says they reacted by trying to “destroy” his integrity.

National

Wanted man found hiding under doona

A MAN who had outstanding warrants for his arrest has been found by police hiding under a doona in a bedroom in the NSW Riverina Region.

Environment

Monster heatwave not over yet

DON’T go outside tomorrow. Authorities are bracing for “catastrophic” conditions caused by the heatwave from hell.

News

A lectern with the insignia of the Australian Federal Police stands vacant in front of six Australian flags after Prime Minister Tony Abbott gives a national security address at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Police expose culture inside AFP

EXCLUSIVE: There’s a crisis inside the Australian Federal Police. Those at the top don’t want anyone to know about it.

National

Radio 2GB DJ Ben Fordham suffers from epilepsy and is happy to talk about to it raise awareness for epilepsy week.

‘You’re wildly out of touch’

RADIO host Ben Fordham didn’t hold back on a veteran Coalition pollie who opposes changes to the MPs’ entitlements scheme.

National

A man was trapped in a dam at Charlotte Bay after his excavator fell on him.

‘It was his willpower to survive’

FOR two hours Daniel Miller was pinned in a dam up to his nose after his excavator fell on him. Between breaths he screamed for help.

World

Facebook photo of 21 year old British backpacker Mia Ayliffe-Chung who was violently stabbed to death yesterday at the Shelley's Backpackers in Home Hill near Townsville, Qld.

Mia’s mum slams Trump ‘horror’

THE mum of UK backpacker Mia Ayliffe-Chung who was killed in Queensland has slammed a list of “terror attacks” as ignorant.

National

Police and emergency services are currently on scene at a firearms incident in Latrobe Street, Melbourne. It’s understood a person received a gunshot wound while in a building about 5.45pm. The person has been taken to hospital. Police are not looking for anyone else connected to the shooting. Police are investigating the incident. Picture Courtesy Channel 7

AFP whistleblower: ‘Ticking time bombs’

EXCLUSIVE: They’re exposed to child sexual abuse, terror threats and grisly crimes each day. And it’s taking a deadly toll on AFP officers.

‘He is like that weird relative’

WE’RE all thinking about Donald Trump the wrong way, according to Q&A panellist Daisy Cousens. Here is her explanation.

National

AFP officer shot in Melbourne

UPDATE: An Australian Federal Police officer has been injured in a firearms incident in its Melbourne headquarters.

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