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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EMBARGO FOR THE GREEN LIST 30 NOV 2023. FEE MAY APPLY.Windfarms in Tasmania, Woolnorth. Supplied

Why Aussies are putting wind farms on their bucket lists

Some say it’s absurd, but in regional Australia wind farms offer a new type of bucket-list appeal for curious visitors, along with clean energy.

Christine Middap

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Celine Cremer on her Australian Travels. picture - Supplied,

Into the Tasmanian forest, never to be seen again

What became of Belgian traveller Celine Cremer who disappeared on a family-friendly walk in the Tasmanian bush? No one has a clue.

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FINAL... An eleven year old indigenous boy who ran away from his placement home to be with his prior foster family is aggressively taken into custody by Northern Territory Police whilst the operation is overseen by staff from community services. STORY: Christine Middap

Mum’s plea: ‘Please tell me, where’s my son?’

The Indigenous mother of the 11-year-old boy dragged screaming by NT police into a paddy wagon is worried for her son and wants to know where they took him?

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EXCLUSIVEPolitics

BATLOW, AUSTRALIA. JULY 21, 2023: Dave Purcell, his little boy Sam, Geoff Purcell, Angus Purcell, and Louise Purcell on their property in Batlow . Picture: Martin Ollman

New line for Humelink route

Community revolt against the Rewiring the Nation push has forced part of the controversial Humelink transmission route to be altered around the Snowy Valleys stronghold of Batlow.

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An Indigenous child being taken by force in the NT, left, the Yes campaign's new ad, right.

Indigenous boy abandoned by decision makers

Benny’s case should not play out in the murk of the voice campaign. It’s a young life we are talking about here and it’s above politics.

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NT treats kids ‘worse than dogs’

Concerns are mounting for the boy removed from his home by armed police as campaigners call for the NT government to take urgent action.

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Innocent boy, 11, dragged into a paddy wagon

‘No, no, no. Let me go!’ The cries of the 11-year-old Indigenous boy pierce the NT neighbourhood as two uniformed police officers force the struggling, sobbing child into the cage of a police wagon | WATCH

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1/9/23: Mekayla Cochrane, 27, is the only indigenous person on the Moree council and an emerging leader in the town, speaks about the upcoming Voice referendum in Moree, Northern NSW. pic: Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Doubts among Indigenous residents of ’67 town

Moree’s Indigenous community once suffered some of the country’s harshest racial discrimination. Now its leaders are not all convinced the voice is the answer to present needs.

Christine Middap

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Murder victim Courtney Morley-Clarke and forensic police at the time of her killing.

A 13yo psychopath killed this tiny girl. Now he will be set free

It was a monstrous, motiveless crime for which the killer, now aged 36, has never shown the slightest remorse, even boasting to police that it would be easier to kill again. His release is cause for dread.

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NSW murder of child Courtney Morley-Clarke at Point Clare. Family members in street outside victim's house 30 Jan 2001./Murder/New/South/Wales

Little girl lost to a monster in the night

Why would a 13-year-old boy get up in the night, carry a sleeping girl out of her house and stab her in the driveway? The answer will never be known.

Christine Middap

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