The Editorial Team

Ally is Youth Editor at news.com.au and has been working as a news reporter for news.com.au since 2017. She graduated with a Bachelor of Communication (Journalism) from Charles Sturt University that same year and started working at news.com.au as an intern during her final year of studies. Since landing a spot on the team, Ally has written about a multitude of different topics from online dating scams and road rules to the COVID-19 pandemic and breaking news.

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VIC

Morwell Deceased childEmily Lever, 3yrold

Grandparents mourn ‘cheeky’ little girl

Three-year-old Emily Lever was found dead inside a car in a Victorian town on a day when temperatures reached 40C.

Leaders

The email was obtained exclusively by Network 10. Picture: Network 10/Channel 10

Email links PM to sports rort scandal

An email has emerged that appears to embroil the PM in the McKenzie sports funding scandal, despite continually denying any involvement.

Health Problems

The map shows the spread of the virus. Picture: John Hopkins University

How new virus became a global epidemic

In two months the coronavirus went from one case in China to a deadly epidemic with more than 10,000 cases around the world.

NSW & ACT

While possessing weed is legal, smoking in public is not.

Weed legal in the ACT from today

The ACT has become the first Aussie state to legalise cannabis, with Canberrans now allowed to own the drug and even grow the plant at home.

UpdatedEnvironment

The Orroral Valley fire in Namadgi National Park south of Canberra. Picture: ACT Emergency Services Agency

’Leave now’: ACT fire at emergency level

An emergency warning has been issued for an out of control fire threatening Canberra, as the capital faces its “worst bushfire threat” in 17 years.

Health Problems

Riot police officers wearing face masks stand guard as residents protest against plans for an empty local housing estate to become a temporary quarantine camp for patients and frontline medical staff of a SARS-like virus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in the Fanling district in Hong Kong on January 26, 2020. - Protesters threw petrol bombs on January 26 night at an empty public housing complex in Hong Kong that had been earmarked to become a temporary quarantine zone as the city battles the outbreak of a SARS-like virus. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP)

Upset over crackdown on virus ‘rumour’

Police have been called out by China’s top court over the harsh punishment given to those thought to be spreading rumours about the coronavirus.

Australian Open

‘Shame’: Big issue with Ash Barty match

All eyes are on world No.1 Ash Barty today for her semi-final match but there is one major detail that has left many tennis fans unimpressed.

Health Problems

ANU student, Helen Chen, went back to Wuhan to visit her family.

Aussie’s nightmare in virus city

A Canberra university student has revealed she hasn’t left her home for a week while being stuck in Wuhan during the coronavirus outbreak.

NSW & ACT

Tragic footage has surfaced that captures the final moments of doomed C-130 Hercules bomber carrying hero firefighters on the outskirts of Canberra. Picture: Supplied

Video captures deadly air tanker crash

Footage has emerged of the tragic moment a water bomber crashed while fighting fires in NSW, killing the three US firefighters on board.

UpdatedQLD

Police at the scene where a woman's body was found at Scarness Beach.

Woman’s body found on Qld beach

A woman has been found dead at a beach in southern Queensland this morning after a passer-by spotted her body in the water.

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