Ellen Whinnett

Ellen Whinnett is The Australian’s associate editor. She is a dual Walkley Award-winning journalist and best-selling author, with a specific interest in national security, investigations and features. She is a former political editor and foreign correspondent who has reported from more than 35 countries across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

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Vape teenager. Young pretty white girl in white cardigan smoking an electronic cigarette opposite destroyed brick wall on the street in the spring. Bad habit that is harmful to health.

Call for border clampdown on nicotine vapes

Calls for vapes to be stopped at border, with flavours and packagings restricted, as government finalises plans to stem youth vaping epidemic.

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A garment from label NOT A MAN'S DREAM featuring the Arabic text for "Allah". Picture: Lucas Dawson Photography

Muslim hackers wage cyber war over dress ‘offence’

Muslim hacker groups launch cyber war on Australian websites after ‘offensive’ dress depicting the word Allah is paraded at Melbourne Fashion Festival.

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Kristina Keneally (centre), accompanied by Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Penny Wong (left) and Labor Senator Deb O'Neill, arrives to be sworn-in as a Senator during a ceremony in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, February 15, 2018. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Politicians trip up over declaring travel

Three parliamentarians have quickly updated their registers of interests after they failed to declare within the required timeframe that they had accepted sponsored travel and hospitality.

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AFP overhaul puts focus on Pacific

A major restructure of the AFP upper ranks will split the crime and national security commands and add a fourth deputy commissioner, with a renewed focus on the Pacific.

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10/03/2023. Antony Wigoder, Border Force officer with boxes of vapes. Boxes containing vapes which have been detained by Australian Border Force, held at a container examination facility in Port Botany in Sydney, waiting for TGA approval to be destroyed. A huge number of vapes are being imported into Australia without the proper paperwork. Britta Campion / The Australian

Vaping’s wild west days are numbered

The government is poised to blow up the unregulated vaping industry, which has allowed 90 million vapes a year to be imported, most laced with nicotine and sold to children.

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Liang Zhang, left, pictured besides his lawyer Dominic Oliveri and an unknown female supporter, leaves Parramatta District Court after pleading not guilty to dealing with the proceeds of crime in connection to what the AFP allege is a multi-million dollar money laundering plot. PIC: Rhiannon Down / The Australian

Industrial shopping scheme uncovered

Baby formula boxes stuffed with cash, an army of surrogate shoppers and watchful handlers surveilling it all from China discovered as AFP investigators raided a money laundering ring.

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Australian drug lord Hakan Ayik, when he was arrested in the Turkish Republic of Northern Turkey in 2010 on charges of possessing steroids and breaching the border of the country illegally. He was granted bail by a court and then vanished from the country.

Taskforce closes in on crooks’ profits

The Australian Federal Police has succeeded in freezing assets of drug-smugglers, money-launderers and gangsters in 11 countries as the hunt for dirty money goes global.

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Alleged Vietnamese-controlled money laundering organisation dismantled – Wardrobe changes, bribery charges and attempts to escape the country. The AFP charged six alleged members of a money laundering organisation for allegedly operating for a number of years in Sydney and Melbourne. It is alleged the organisation, based in Vietnam, used multiple money mules to pick up cash and deposit it at ATMs around Sydney and Melbourne. Picture: Australian Federal Police

How a pair of shoes tripped up a global crime gang

A woman accused of being a ‘money mule’ swapped wigs and other disguises, but a signature pair of shoes proved her undoing.

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Alleged rigged up cash houses. , Through Operation Ironside intelligence, the AFP identified a person suspected to be the controller of a Vietnamese money laundering organisation. The AFP suspected the money laundering activities to be occurring at a NSW property. Investigations led to two units at a Western Sydney building complex that were allegedly being used as cash houses to hide illicit funds. The AFP seized about $2.6 million cash from the units. Picture: Australian Federal Police,

Hunt for billions in dirty money

More than $250m in cash, cryptocurrency, high-end cars and houses in blue-chip suburbs have been seized as the AFP zeroes in on money laundering.

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Sayed AbdellatifPolitics

Sayed Abdellatif, an Egyptian asylum seeker falsely condemned as a terrorist by political leaders. He is in Villawood detention centre in Australia and has been held in detention for more than 1,600 days.

Court overturns torture ruling in migrant detention case

The Federal Court has overturned a ruling that found Home Affairs and ASIO wrongly relied on information obtained under torture to deny a visa to a man held in immigration detention for a decade.

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