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Frank Chung is a senior journalist at news.com.au covering topics including local and international breaking news, politics, culture, media and technology. In his previous role as finance editor he wrote about economics, retail, industrial relations, small business, consumer affairs and real estate.

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At Work

Centre: Fi Bendall, of the Female social network, with L to R; her daughter Izzy bendall -15 and her husband Duncan Bendall. Fi has been nominated for the 2019 NSW Business woman of the Year award. Picture: John Appleyard

Aussie man sues wife’s company for racism

A British woman’s company has been ordered to pay her former Australian husband $170,000 after he sued her for racial discrimination.

Australian Coronavirus

NSW ‘not gold standard’, got ‘lucky’: Swan

Dr Norman Swan has rejected suggestions NSW controlled its outbreak through better management than Victoria, saying it got “lucky”.

Leaders

US President Donald Trump speaks during a labor day press conference in the North Portico of the White House in Washington, DC on September 7, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Trump’s extraordinary military attack

Donald Trump has launched an extraordinary and unprecedented attack on the US military leadership with an inflammatory claim.

Australian Coronavirus

Anti-Semitic graffiti in Melbourne. Picture: @MrJThomson/Twitter

Dan targeted with ‘distressing’ graffiti

Dan Andrews has been targeted with anti-Semitic graffiti as sick online messages in a COVID-19 conspiracy group are revealed.

Environment

A firefighter douses flames as they push towards homes during the Creek fire in the Cascadel Woods area of unincorporated Madera County, California on September 7, 2020. - A firework at a gender reveal party triggered a wildfire in southern California that has destroyed 7,000 acres (2,800 hectares) and forced many residents to flee their homes, the fire department said Sunday. More than 500 firefighters and four helicopters were battling the El Dorado blaze east of San Bernardino, which started Saturday morning, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP)

Gender reveal sparked wild megafires

Hellish conditions and record temperatures are fuelling enormous out-of-control fires in California – including one started by a monumentally “stupid” decision.

US Politics

19yo blames hot tub abuse on education

A 19-year-old running for politics has admitted being “abusive” to his ex-girlfriend but denies choking her in a hot tub.

Restaurants & Bars

Black Lives Matter protester drinks woman's beer.

Protester’s gross act as diners harassed

A woman wearing a “Nazi Lives Don’t Matter” T-shirt has been filmed drinking an elderly woman’s beer as protesters harassed outdoor diners.

US Politics

A protester wearing a Black Panther jacket and holding a

‘Self-own’: Hilarious gaffe in BLM study

A Princeton study examining the Black Lives Matter protests has been widely mocked for not exactly making the point its authors had intended.

At Work

Joann Wilkie and San Midha pictured at the 2019-2020 Budget Estimates Hearing held at NSW Parliament in Sydney.Picture: Richard Dobson

Push to stop saying ‘husbands, wives’

NSW bureaucrats are being asked to stop saying “husbands” and “wives” and add “pronoun preference” to their emails as part of training.

Global Coronavirus

Anti-masker brawls with cop on train

A foul-mouthed train passenger has been filmed in a heated struggle with a police officer after refusing to wear a mask.

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