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Natalie O’Brien is a multi-award winning career journalist who has worked around Australia covering some of the country’s biggest stories from government coverups to sex trafficking, immigration, the environment, police, courts and crime. She was the first Investigations Editor appointed on The Australian Newspaper and was awarded a highly commended award in the Walkley Awards for her story Children Overboard Didn’t Happen. Contact her on natalie.obrien@news.com.au

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New twist in TV terrorist case

He was a Home and Away actor turned terrorist who plotted to kill Australians – and the federal government has decided he still can’t be trusted. Here’s why.

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Rangers build new homes after bushfires ravaged the habitat of Australia's Greater Gliders.Pictured a Gizmo aka Greater Glider Pictures: Supplied.

New way to save Aussie critter likened to Gremlins’ Gizmo

Australia’s rarely seen nocturnal mammal from NSW, Victoria and Qld which looks like Gizmo, the Gremlins movie character, is getting a new home.

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Masterchef contestant Sandeep Pandit - the Spice Angel is holding a series of curry nights at The Cricketers. Pic of Kathi Roll with Òkiller ChutneyÓ and pickled onions and front Chicken Tikka with pickled onions and chutney. Wednesday, August 28. 2019. Picture: David Crosling

MasterChef star’s fight to feed India’s poor

MasterChef contestant Sandeep Pandit is turning his talents from his kitchen to fundraising in bid to help feed India’s most in need during the COVID-19 crisis.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH 10, 2021: A Qantas plane pictured taking off at Sydney Airport.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw

Emergency powers invoked to block India travel

Greg Hunt will use powers under the Biosecurity Act to stop travellers coming into the country from India leaving the fate of stranded Australians up in the air.

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TOPSHOT - A Covid-19 cornavirus patient is shifted to a ward after being admitted at the GTB hospital in New Delhi on April 29, 2021. (Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP)

PM to slam shut loopholes as India turns to black market

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has vowed to block travel loopholes allowing passengers from COVID-ravaged India into Australia, as locals turn to the black market.

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Passengers arriving on international flights get their Covid-19 coronavirus screening done at the Anna International airport in Chennai on April 28, 2021. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP)

India’s grim COVID toll as travel loophole exposed

India’s coronavirus death toll has soared past 200,000, with thousands of new infections and overloaded hospital wards.

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30/06/2016 A Current Affair executive producer Grant Williams in the control room at Channel 9 Melbourne.David Geraghty / The Australian.

ACA producer ‘tipped off about alleged payroll tax fraud’

A former TV producer has told court his friendship with reporter Steve Barrett was like that of a police officer and an informer.

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‘I don’t care’: Kylie reacts as love rat ex seen with new lover

Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s love rat ex-husband has been spotted with the woman he cheated with, while she was in an Iranian jail. SEE THE PHOTOS

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07/06/2019 11:51June 7, 2019. Tarek Zahab speaks to reporters outside the NSW Supreme Court after his brother Haisem was jailed for at least six years over his research into missiles for Islamic State. Zahab says he doesn't think his brother was radicalised. He said Haisem Zahab's testimony at his sentence hearing last month, to

ISIS terrorist’s brother wins right to own gun licence

The brother of a terrorist who built a rocket missile in his backyard for ISIS has won a bid to get his firearm licence back.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH, 15, 2021: Daniel Hausman arrives at the John Maddison court in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett

Blackmail witness accused of ‘sugar-coating’ evidence

The AFP dropped a statement from the star witness in the blackmail trial of TV reporter Steve Barrett, a court has heard.

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