The Editorial Team

Liz is news.com.au’s deputy editor. She began her career in magazines at The Australian Women’s Weekly, going on to work in newspapers before joining news.com.au. She started as a senior reporter in 2014 before becoming news editor and then deputy. Liz has appeared on national TV and radio as a commentator discussing news stories, politics and social issues.

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World

Abu Yahya ash Shami was identifed as Australian in the ISIS recruitment video, may allah accept him in the caption on the youtube video

Aussie Jihadist named ISIS leader

AN AUSTRALIAN jihadist has reportedly risen through the ranks of military group ISIS to be promoted to a senior military leadership role in northern Iraq.

World

Ukraine city left in ruins

THIS is how bad it is. Shocking footage shows a Ukraine city in ruins after heavy shelling overnight.

National

PM Tony Abbott in Question time in the House of Representatives Chamber, Parliament House in Canberra.

Abbott under fire over comment

IT’S been a while since Tony Abbott has had a major foot-in-mouth moment, so we should have seen this one coming. What’s he done now?

National

A cardboard cut out of MP Christopher Pyne is set on fire and then stomped on by protestors. University Student protest march against fee changes - from the UTS tower to Town Hall George street Sydney. Also in support of Freya Newman who leaked the documents about Frances Abbott's scholarship.

Angry students storm Liberal HQ

A STUDENT protest against uni fee changes interrupted a wine delivery valued at more than $1000 at Liberal Party headquarters in Melbourne.

Health Problems

Super costly shot you may not even need

IT ALMOST killed Aimee Burns’ son. Now she’s living on $20 a day to save for a vaccination against it. Does your child need protecting?

NSW

Protesters march through Sydney on September 15, 2012, as a wave of unrest against a film that mocks Islam spread to Australia, bringing hundreds out to demonstrate. Furious protests targeting symbols of US influence flared in cities across the Muslim world on September 14 in retaliation for a crude film made in the United States by a right-wing Christian group that ridicules the Prophet Mohammed. AFP PHOTO / Greg WOOD

Chilling first time we glimpsed the ISIS flag

HORRIFYING images were seen on Aussie streets during riots two years ago, but one picture was overlooked at the time. We now know it as the ISIS flag.

National

Prisoner, hands holding bars, jail, behind bars, children behind bars, asylum seeker generic, detention center, detained, jailed, shame, sadness, mental health, restriction, limitation generic, thinkstock

Injured asylum seekers sue Morrison

A SIX-year-old girl who suffers Post Traumatic Stress disorder is the lead plaintiff in class action proceedings brought against the federal government and Immigration Minister Scott Morrison.

National

23/8/2014 Prime Minister Tony Abbott Speaks at the South Australian Liberal AGM At The Ellington Building at Hackney .....PHOTO DAVE CRONIN

$64m to stop homegrown terrorists

PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has announced a $64 million investment by the government in counter terrorism measures with more than $13 million going towards preventing homegrown terrorists.

North America

A building is partially collapsed due to a 6.0-magnitude earthquake, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014, in Napa, Calif. A large earthquake rolled through California's northern Bay Area early Sunday, damaging some buildings, igniting fires, knocking out power to tens of thousands and sending residents running out of their homes in the darkness. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

The Big One is coming

BUILDINGS swallowed by faultlines, entire cities rolling into the ocean and the end of everything. California’s 6.0 magnitude earthquake is a reminder The Big One is coming.

Environment

This 17/04/2010 file photo of the volcano in southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier as it sends ash into the air.

Is this volcano ready to blow?

THE world holds its breath as another ice-covered volcano blast is threatening to disrupt the skies much like the eruption of Iceland’s volcano four years ago.

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