Alexi Demetriadi

Alexi DemetriadiNSW Political Correspondent

Alexi Demetriadi is The Australian’s NSW Political Correspondent, covering state and federal politics, with a focus on social cohesion, anti-Semitism, extremism, and communities.

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Mr Moselmane, left, pictured with the ambassador, centre, in Canberra in May.

Labor hopeful’s links to ‘ratbag’ Iranian envoy

Shaoquett Moselmane dined with the Iranian envoy slammed by the Albanese government for his ‘repugnant’ calls for Israel’s destruction amid the former NSW MP’s bid to replace Linda Burney.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos AUGUST 6 , 2024: Former NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is congratulated by colleagues in State Parliament after giving his valedictory speech at NSW Parliament. He is retiring from Politics. Picture: NewsWire / John Appleyard

Perrottet takes jab at vaccine mandates

In his valedictory speech former NSW premier Dominic Perrottet has labelled Covid vaccine mandates ‘wrong’ for impeding on personal liberty and costing people their jobs.

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PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 1: Algeria's Imane Khelif (in red) during the Women's 66kg preliminary round match against Angela Carini of Italy (not seen) on day six of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at North Paris Arena on August 01, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Fabio Bozzani/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Olympic officials on ropes over fight

Hungarian boxer Anna Luca Hamori has taken up the fight for protecting women’s sport ahead of her controversial bout with genetically male Algerian Imane Khelif on Saturday.

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CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - June 24, 2024: Leader of the House, Employment and Workplace Relations and Arts Tony Burke and Minister for Education, Jason Clare during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

‘Friends of Burke’ barrack for Labor

A ‘Friends of Tony Burke’ campaign by Islamic community leaders is hoping to neuter The Muslim Vote as internal divisions and an ‘information black hole’ derailed the fledgling ‘dump Labor’ movement.

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ORAN PARK, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 30, 2024. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese makes a speech on a visit to officially open The Shepherd Centre, hearing loss clinic, in the Western Sydney suburb of Oran Park. Picture: NewsWire / Max Mason-Hubers

Leave now or risk being stuck: PM’s warning to ‘thousands’ of Australians in Lebanon

Anthony Albanese issued a stern warning to Australian citizens in Lebanon to leave immediately as tensions escalate, adding that Beirut airport could close at any time, making extraction far more difficult.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. -NCA NewsWire Photos. APRIL 11, 2023. Julian Leeser The opposition’s spokesman for Indigenous affairs resigns from the Liberal party front bench. Picture: NCA NewsWire/ Ben Symons

Empathy for Jews ‘fleeting’: Lib MP

Julian Leeser has accused the government of ‘turning its back’ on Jewish Australians like himself amid rampant anti-Semitism at the opening of a landmark exhibition on the horrors of October 7.

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Federal (L-R) Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler, Federal Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme Bill Shorten and Federal Minister for Social Services Amanda Rishworth speak to media during a press conference in Sydney, Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Months after a disability royal commission released its watershed report, the federal government will deliver its much-anticipated response. (AAP Image/Jane Dempster) NO ARCHIVING

States split on best path for services

The states, territories and the Albanese government have failed to agree on how best to approach some of the disability royal commission’s key recommendations.

Alexi Demetriadi and Stephen Lunn

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Close up women hand holding wheel on a wheelchair during sunset

Disability reform too slow, advocates warn

The government has rejected moves to phase out specialist schools, while decisions on keeping group homes and segregated employment programs have been kicked down the road.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 1: Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott appears before the working committee for the Voice to Parliament at Parliament House Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Abbott accuses Kean of preselection ‘stitch-up’

The former prime minister has hit out at Anthony Albanese’s new climate tsar, as the former NSW treasurer attempts to install a candidate described as ‘Matt Kean on steroids’.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos APRIL 17, 2024: Gemal Kheir, from the Lebanese Muslim association pictured at the Lakemba Mosque denouncing the terror attack on a Christian Church this week. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Swift

Muslim leaders put refugees’ onus on new minister

Muslim leaders have urged Tony Burke to ensure a ‘fair and consistent process’ for refugees, ensuring as many Palestinians can be resettled ‘as a priority’ and pathways if conditions worsen in Lebanon.

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