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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Stacey Train was shot dead by police at a property in Wieambilla.2011 image of Stacey Train from Camooweal visited the Ration Shed. Photo: Louise Cheer / South Burnett Times

Cop-killers rigged remote house for ambush

Anti-vax conspiracy theorists who killed two police and a neighbour had rigged their property with a sophisticated surveillance network and possible ‘kill zones’.

Michael McKenna and Ellen Whinnett

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Adult Education Winter Guide, course operator Daniel (Dan) Duggan, managing director and chief pilot of Top Gun Tasmania with his jet

Arrested Australian ‘Top Gun’ pilot had links to spy

A former US fighter pilot arrested in mysterious circumstances in NSW is believed to have been friends with a man later jailed for conspiring to hack US military secrets.

Ellen Whinnett

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A screen-grab taken on Friday, July 20, 2018, of Australian-born Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash, who could now be freed from Turkish custody if the court determines he isn't under investigation for other crimes. (AAP Image/Supplied) NO ARCHIVING

ISIS kingpin to come home for terror trial

Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash will be returned to Australia to face court on charges that could lead to him being jailed for life.

Ellen Whinnett

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The three Russians found guilty of downing MH17. (L-R) Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky and Oleg Poelatov

Surrender mass murderers, PM tells Russia

The government is demanding that Russia hand over three men convicted in absentia of the murders of 298 people killed when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine.

Ellen Whinnett and Jacquelin Magnay

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Andrew Spence, the grandson of Colin Winchester, who graduated with the AFP.

Graduation marks tragic legacy

Andrew Spence was just 21 months old when his grandfather, AFP assistant commissioner Colin Winchester, was shot dead on January 10, 1989.

Ellen Whinnett

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Kathleen Folbigg appears via video link during a convictions inquiry at the NSW Coroners Court, Sydney, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. An Inquiry continues into convictions of "baby killer" Kathleen Megan Folbigg. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

Folbigg’s question of innocence or guilt will be in her genes

Did the genetic variant carried by convicted child killer Kathleen Folbigg — and which, scientists say, she passed on to two of her children — trigger their deaths?

Quentin McDermott

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A picture shows the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group fighters in the northeastern Hasakeh governorate, on December 6, 2021. - Al-Hol is the larger of two Kurdish-run displacement camps for relatives of IS jihadists in Syria's northeast. It holds mostly Syrians and Iraqis but also thousands from Europe and Asia suspected of family ties with IS fighters. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

Leaving IS brides in camps ‘never on’

Leaving Australian women and their children in the camps for Islamic State families in Syria ‘forever’ was never a sustainable option, a counter-terrorism expert has said.

Ellen Whinnett

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01/07/22 Vicky Xu is an outspoken critic of the Chinese government and wrote the world's most authoritative report on Uighur Muslims' persecution during her time at ASPI. Aaron Francis / The Australian

Chinese Twitter trolls target women in West

A campaign of intimidation against prominent women of Chinese backgrounds, including Australian writer and researcher Vicky Xu, has been linked to Beijing.

Ellen Whinnett

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Australian women and children at al-Roj camp in northeastern Syria. The woman are (L-R) Mariam Dabboussy, Aminah Assaad, Nesrine Zahab (she has her back turned, tall one at the back), Shayma Assaad and Bessima Assaad (Bessima is in the black cap) Children are (L-R) Abdul Rahman (first left), son of Nesrine Zahab, Alaa & Umayr (third and fourth from left), sons of Shayma Assaad, and far right Mariam, daughter of Shayma Assaad.Picture: Ellen Whinnett / The Australian

IS families blur the lines between our safety and our sympathy

Several factors have driven the divide between Labor and the Coalition on how to manage the legacy of ISIS.

Ellen Whinnett

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epa07393463 Unidentified women, reportedly wives of a suspected Islamic State (IS) fighters, walk at Roj refugees camp in Hasakah, northeast of Syria, 24 February 2019. The camp which is controlled by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) houses over 300 families, most of them are wives and children of Islamic state (IS) fighters among them foreigners who arrived in the camp following the defeat of Islamic State group in its last strongholds in eastern Syria. EPA/MURTAJA LATEEF

Cops keep watch on returned ISIS brides

Four former brides of Islamic State are under police surveillance, were deemed low-risk by ASIO, and have signed legally enforceable agreements to co-operate.

Ellen Whinnett

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