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Charis ChangSenior Reporter

Charis Chang has been a reporter for more than 10 years, beginning her career in newspapers before heading online. In a former life, she was a paralegal and got her start in journalism through covering council meetings and other news for local newspapers in regional NSW, Melbourne, and Sydney including the Manly Daily. She has reported extensively on the environment and climate change, as well as health issues including coronavirus, and has also begun tackling data journalism. Highlights of her career include interviewing prime ministers and covering several federal elections. In 2019, she travelled with the press pack during the election campaign. She has also been involved in campaigns on mental health, organ donation and recycling.

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The best time of your life revealed

SENIORS have revealed the age they found the most enjoyable and the answer might surprise you.

A customer selects some organic tomatoes at the Moore Park produce markets in Sydney on Saturday, January 9, 2016. (AAP Image/Keri Megelus)

Is buying organic food a big waste of money?

SHOPPERS continue to pay more for organic food in Australia but are there any benefits to buying this premium product?

An aerial image of waterfront properties in Sydney, Friday, March 9, 2018. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

Why $150k isn’t enough to live in Sydney

SARAH and her husband Tom don’t want to leave Sydney but they are being forced out, and they’re not the only ones.

Chris Csabs.

ScoMo’s failure on ‘pray the gay away’

CHRIS Csabs went through gay conversion therapy when he was a teenager and he says Scott Morrison’s comments today were “not good enough”.

General view of housing in Sydney, Friday, Dec. 9, 2016. Home loan approval numbers fell 0.8 per cent in October, a slightly smaller fall than the 1.0 per cent decline the market expected. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

Aussies becoming ‘mortgage prisoners’

AS HOME loan rates rise, new figures show it could be a big problem for some Australians to get a better deal.

Bondi Beach Public school, Bondi Beach. Eastern Suburbs Schools.

‘Culture of fear’ surrounds schools

THERE are claims of a “culture of fear” within the school system that discourages teachers and parents from complaining about principals.

(FILES) A file photo taken on August 23, 2018 shows Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull gesturing at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. - Dumped prime minister Turnbull will quit parliament this week, reports said on August 28, 2018, in another headache for Australia's rattled government which will temporarily lose its slim one-seat majority. (Photo by MARK GRAHAM / AFP)

16 candidates vying for ex-PM’s seat

A CRUCIAL by-election in Malcolm Turnbull’s former seat of Wentworth could make the new PM’s job a lot harder.

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Tony Abbott does an 800mtr Charity Swim, the 3rd annual Swim for Saxon Bird at Queenscliff Beach. The ocean swim honours former Queenscliff Surf Life Saving Club member Saxon Bird who died at the Aussie SLSC a few years ago.

Abbott’s ‘name is mud’ at home

SOME local Liberal voters say Tony Abbott’s “name is mud” after last week’s leadership spill but it doesn’t look like he’s going anywhere.

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Federal Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton looks on during the 2018 Five Country Ministerial meeting on the Gold Coast, Tuesday, August 28, 2018. Australia is hosting the meeting that brings together the Interior Homeland Security, Public Safety and Immigration Ministers of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

Dutton lashes ‘ridiculous’ visa article

QUESTIONS are growing around Peter Dutton’s granting of visas to au pairs, with a third case now surfacing.

27/08/20Ex Foreign minister Julie Bishop at at Evari launch in Perth this morningpic Colin Murty The Australian

Julie Bishop’s classy exit speech

JULIE Bishop has described the “most emotional moment of my life” when discussing her future, after resigning as foreign minister.

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