Christine Middap

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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Saturday’s stabbings proof tragedy doesn’t discriminate

The heart-rending list of victims from Saturday’s stabbing spree at Bondi Junction is a snapshot of quintessential Australia.

Christine Middap

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Emilia Tortorella Artwork for Bill Shorten x NDIS story 26-03-2024Version: (4x3)COPYRIGHT: The Australian's artists each have different copyright agreements in place regarding re-use of their work in other publications.Please seek advice from the artists themselves or the Managing Editor of The Australian regarding re-use.

Shorten moves to keep criminals off the NDIS

Bill Shorten warns states shouldn’t use the scheme to fund support for violent criminals that are the responsibility of justice and corrections departments.

Christine Middap, Ellie Dudley and Stephen Lunn

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David Balding (left), his sister Janine (top right), and Wayne Wilmot.

‘Keep killers locked up’: brother’s fight for justice

David Balding says the community has every right to be worried that a remorseless criminal, who has been assessed as a significant risk of carrying out further attacks on women, is set to be freed.

Christine Middap

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Wayne Wilmot, left, and Janine Balding, inset.

Predator in Janine Balding killing secures NDIS package

Wayne Wilmot, one of the country’s worst serial sex offenders – involved in the brutal 1980s abduction, rape and murder of Janine Balding – is set to be freed with support from the NDIS.

Christine Middap

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Andrew Dyer was the Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner, the middleman between the renewables industry, community and government. He suddenly announced his resignation and leaves the job this week. Picture: Alex Coppel.

Stop ‘random renewables rush’, says energy Tsar

The renewables transition is underway but recently retired energy and infrastructure commissioner Andrew Dyer says there are still big questions over which projects are to be built, and where.

Christine Middap

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Corporal Aaron Robinson, Hero of Kabul. CPL Robinson was part of the ADF contingent sent to Kabul to extract Australians and others on humanitarian grounds when the Taliban took control. He saved the lives of hundreds of people, guiding them out of the city through sewers to the airport where he was waiting to get them out. He came home with PTSD and has now left the ADF. Picture Matt Turner.

The mystery corporal who gained legendary status

Armed with a burner phone and his wits, Aaron Robinson helped rescue hundreds of people from Kabul and then disappeared. Two years later, those he saved finally got to say ‘thank you’.

Christine Middap

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‘Do I keep my mouth shut?’: Labor legend’s lament

Former union titan and Labor MP Jennie George has watched in despair as new energy warriors betray her old Labor values. ‘I feel like the party left me, I didn’t leave it.’

Christine Middap

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Former St Paulâs Catholic School teacher Gaye Grant outside Wollongong Courthouse on Tuesday December 20 2022 ahead of her sentencing for maintaining an unlawful relationship with a 10yo in the 1970s. Picture: Dylan Arvela

Child abuser released because of her gender

A NSW teacher who admitted sexually exploiting a student has been released on bail due to a historic law that didn’t recognise female perpetrators.

Christine Middap

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Young boy holding teddybear while alone on the bleachers

Return of foster kids taken to England

Two Indigenous siblings stranded in the UK will be returned to Australia this week amid calls for an investigation.

Christine Middap

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THE AUSTRALIAN. Mudgee electrician Daniel Stewart lives in Burrundulla, across the road from a previously planned solar farm, which was to be built on beautiful prime rural land right at the entrance to Mudgee. Daniel is one of a number of locals who successfully fought the proposal in the Land and Environment Court. PICTURED with his dog Millie at the gate to his property, with the land in question on the other side of the road behind. The development was part of the Central-West Orana renewable energy zone. 09/02/2024. Picture by Max Mason-Hubers

Disaster la vista or future glimpse? Key battle over ‘alien’ solar farm

The NSW wine town of Mudgee’s success at fighting off a solar farm is a signal to other communities that a town’s scenery and a resident’s sense of place count for something.

Christine Middap

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