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Christine MiddapAssociate editor, chief writer

Christine Middap is associate editor and chief writer at The Australian. She was previously editor of The Weekend Australian Magazine for 11 years. Christine worked as a journalist and editor in Tasmania, Queensland and NSW, and at The Times in London. She is a former foreign correspondent and London bureau chief for News Corp’s Australian newspapers.

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Renewable energyPolitics

Koala and Sharman’s rock-wallaby habitat are set to be cleared for a new wind farm, an environment charity says.

Charity in Plibersek court challenge over Forrest-backed wind farm

A north Queensland charity is seeking a judicial review of the Environment Minister’s approval of a wind farm in a biodiversity hotspot near a Wet Tropics world heritage area.

Christine Middap

Snowy 2.0Nation

KOSCIUSZKO NATIONAL PARK, AUSTRALIA. MARCH 24, 2025: Construction workers at the 120m wide transmission line corridor for the Snowy 2.0 connection project,the new two lines would be side-by-side, spanning from the Snowy 2.0 generator site through Kosciuszko National Park to the new substation located in Bago State Forest. Picture: Martin Ollman

Wilderness defiled as green energy crusade cuts through heart of Kosciuszko

From the air and from the ground it’s an unexpected sight: kilometres of native forest felled and bulldozed along pristine slopes and ridges in one of the country’s most beloved national parks.

Christine Middap

Renewable energyNation

A solar farm fire near Raywood in central Victoria. Picture: Supplied

Five solar farms shut down over fire risk

The Victorian energy safety regulator has ordered five solar farms owned by subsidiaries of a Chinese-owned company to stop generating electricity after a fire at one site spread to uncontrolled vegetation.

Christine Middap

EXCLUSIVEMedical

Generic photo of a small child being vaccinated with a needle. Vaccination / vaccine / baby Picture: iStock

Covid’s dangerous hangover: alarming slide in child vaccination

Childhood vaccination rates have been falling across the country since the Covid pandemic, with some pockets seeing steep declines.

Christine Middap

inquirerInquirer

[4:3] Embargoed for INQUIRER on 15/04/2025. Vaccinations rates. A child has a bandage on her left arm and a falling graph on the left side. Sources: iStock. Artwork by Frank Ling

See where Australian children are under-vaccinated

Alarm is being raised as routine vaccination rates fall in the pandemic’s wake, posing a threat to us all | Rates of undervaccinated babies vary across the nation.

Christine Middap

exclusiveNation

BUSH SUMMIT: Squadron Energy offered Australia’s first, large-scale, public, community investment into a utility-scale wind farm, via the Sapphire Wind Farm Community Co-investment. Picture: Supplied

‘Unfolding disaster’: country councils slam chaotic renewables shift

Country councils at the forefront of the renewables transition say the very communities being asked to power the nation could be the biggest losers.

Christine Middap

environmentNation

Renewables future. Lake Bonney Windfarm wind turbines produce electricity.Thursday November 6 2020 Pic Roy Van Der Vegt

Plibersek ticks off three new wind farms

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has given the green light to three contentious wind farms, including one of the country’s most hotly contested projects south of Tamworth.

Christine Middap

COMMENTARYEducation

26 FEBRUARY 2025. Students, teachers and members of the local community show their support for Sheikh Wesam Charkawi at Granville Boys High this morning. Picture: Twitter / https://x.com/NoticerNews/status/1894575118342398053

Answer this: what are our children actually being taught?

The sight of students in uniform joining in the ‘Allahu Akbar’ chants of a large group of adults waving loud speakers and Palestinian flags outside a school won’t just chill the besieged Jewish community; it’s a wake-up call to the NSW government.

Christine Middap

Inside storyHealth

Amanda Duncan, the nurse who blew the whistle on the boss of the Launceston General Hospital for allegedly altering death certificates to avoid coronial investigations.Hobart Tasmania13/02/2025photo - Peter Mathew

How a nurse uncovered one of medicine’s most confounding scandals

Amanda Duncan, who uncovered years of serious failings at the Launceston General Hospital, had a deeply personal reason to advocate for patients. Her sister had needed someone just like her.

Christine Middap

Renewables transitionPolitics

Anthony Albanese has been heckled by anti-wind farm during a visit to a Bluecope Steelworths centre in NSW’s south coast., The Prime Minister was greeting supporters when a passer began yelling at him. Picture: SKy News

Warning for PM: ‘It won’t be comfortable if he comes here’

Anthony Albanese shouldn’t have been surprised by the Illawarra hecklers. Come election time he will have to pick a careful path through regional Australia if he is to avoid further embarrassment.

Christine Middap

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