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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Election

Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten speaks to the media during a press conference at the Cancer Centre at Canberra Hospital in Canberra, Friday, April 5, 2019.(AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Side of Bill Shorten we haven’t seen yet

Bill Shorten has never been a popular politician, but he could soon be the most powerful. There’s a side to the leader we haven’t yet seen.

Federal Budget

25 Beech St, Malvern East, sold for $1.785 million and reflected the rising popularity of the california bungalow in Stonnington.

Big thing missing from the Budget

The Treasurer appears to realise housing affordability is still a major problem for Australians, but you wouldn’t know it from his first Budget.

Election

An aerial image shows houses located in the suburb of Matraville, in the New South Wales city of Sydney, Sunday, 17 February 2019. (AAP Image/Sam Mooy) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

‘Not everyone has rich parents’

Labor leader Bill Shorten doesn’t want to live in a society where having rich parents is the only way you can get ahead.

NSW & ACT

Map shows where the seats are falling in Sydney.

NSW election: Where the seats stand

The election may have been called but the remaining votes could determine whether the Coalition gets a majority government.

NSW & ACT

Barnaby Joyce faces off with Labor Senator Jenny McAllister during Seven's NSW election coverage. Picture: Channel 7

‘You’re wrong’: Barnaby’s on-air spat

Barnaby Joyce has been called out for his on-air performance in tonight’s election coverage by viewers and even a parliamentary colleague.

UPDATEDNSW & ACT Politics

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian reacts during a visit to the Revesby Public School on 2019 New South Wales election day in Sydney, Saturday, 23 March 2019. New South Wales voters head to the polls in the state election today. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Victory for Gladys in NSW election

Gladys Berejiklian has claimed victory for the Coalition in the NSW Election saying she is proud to live in a state where “someone with a long surname and a woman” can be Premier.

NSW & ACT

A man has been arrested after driving down the wrong side of the M5 and crashing his ute on a concrete dividing barrier. Picture: Channel 7

‘It didn’t work’: Toll evader’s shocker

A driver whose ute ended up mounted on a barrier after he drove the wrong way down a Sydney motorway has admitted it wasn’t a great idea.

Election

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 18: Prime Minister Scott Morrison addresses the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce on March 18, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. The Prime Minister has announced an acceleration to the Safer Communities programme, with $55 million in community safety grants, with priority to be given to religious schools, places of religious worship and religious assembly. Grants from $50,000 to $1.5 million will provide for safety enhancements such as CCTV cameras, lighting, fencing, bollards, alarms, security systems and public address systems. The additional funding is in response to the deadly shooting attacks on two mosques in Christchurch on Friday, 15 March which killed 50 people. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

PM savaged: ‘It needs to stop’

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has ripped into Prime Minister Scott Morrison after he announced a plan to cap immigration at 160,000.

Babies

Anti-vax WAG welcomes second baby

The wife of NRL star Bryce Cartwright has given birth to a baby days after publicly defending her decision not to vaccinate her children.

Bradley Edwards in an undated photograph, Edwards has been charged in relation to the Claremont serial killings.

Accused killer’s ‘depraved’ rape fantasies

Police found “depraved” rape stories, “strikingly similar” to an alleged abduction of a WA girl, on the computer of accused Claremont serial killer, a court heard.

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