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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Young boy holding teddybear while alone on the bleachers

Bring my kids home: mum’s plea

The mother of two Indigenous children stranded in the UK says she is devastated they were taken from Australia and urgently wants them home.

Christine Middap

exclusiveIndigenous

Two Indigenous children taken to the UK by their foster parents are trapped in England's child protection system.

Aboriginal kids trapped in UK with nowhere to go

Two Aboriginal children without visas or passports are trapped in UK’s child protection system while Australian authorities work out how to get them home.

Christine Middap

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In a picture taken in February of 2023, Geraldine Cox is photographed with children who live at the home she runs in Cambodia. The home is a place for children who have been abandoned by their parents or removed from families to live.

Child saviour abandoned by Canberra

Renowned humanitarian Geraldine Cox, 78, has been showered with almost every honour open to Australian citizens, except the one she really wants. An aged pension.

Christine Middap

100 DAYS OF DARKNESSNation

1 Carmel Gat, 39. 2 Shlomo Mansour, 85. 3 Romi Gonen, 23. 4 Tal Shoham, 38. 5 Amit Buskila, 28. 6 Avinathan Or, 30. 7 Bibas family: Yarden, 34; Shiri, 32; Ariel, 4; Kfir, almost 1. 8 Noa Argamani, 26. 9 Agam Berger, 19. 10 Arbel Yehud, 28. 11 Alexander Dancyg, 75. 12 Naama Levy, 19. 13 Ran Gvili, 24. 14 Ofer Kalderon, 53. 15 Eden Yerushalmi, 24. 16 Nadav Popplewell, 51. 17 Karina Ariev, 19. 18 Omer Shem Tov, 21. 19 Matan Zangauker, 24.

Propaganda videos fuel nightmares for hostage families

Beyond the horizon of every hostage photograph is a family that hasn’t given up, a friend holding vigil, a community urging strength against a background of unimaginable loss and sadness.

Christine Middap and Fiona Harari

60th AnniversaryNation

COVID. HIGH SCHOOL MASKS. Students Jorja and Mackenzie on the way to school. Story: Politicians are sitting in parliament without masks but school children are still being asked to wear masks at school. 4th May, 2022. Picture: Tricia Watkinson

Lessons from being locked down

What the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us as we look to the future.

Christine Middap

Child protectionNation

Indigenous child removals hit record

‘These family separations must stop’: peak Indigenous group calls for urgent action to reverse rising tide of child removals.

Christine Middap

Supreme CourtNation

Aboriginal status shouldn’t hold up adoption:’ teen’s plea

A young Indigenous man who made an impassioned plea to be adopted by his foster parents has been granted his wish.

Christine Middap

ExclusiveNation

Scales of justice and Gavel on wooden table and Lawyer or Judge working with agreement in Courtroom, Justice and Law concept.

‘Keep us safe’: siblings plead with judge to be adopted

Court rules brother and sister can be adopted by their foster parents against the wishes of their Indigenous mother, who argued the family wouldn’t understand Aboriginal culture.

Christine Middap

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -November 17, 2023.Mother (blue dress) and brother and father ( Right) of Lilie James who was murdered recently leave the funeral service at Danebank College . Picture: Jeremy Piper

‘So proud of you’: father’s moving tribute to murdered daughter

Three weeks after sports coach Lilie James was brutally murdered at an elite Sydney school, her family had to say goodbye to the light of their lives.

Christine Middap and Liam Mendes

‘This day is about Lilie’Nation

Vibrant farewell for a life cut brutally short

They came in bright colours clutching flowers. Because that was the spirit of Lilie James, the Sydney sports coach laid to rest after her murder at an elite school.

Christine Middap and Liam Mendes

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