Ellie Dudley

Ellie DudleyLegal Affairs Correspondent

Ellie Dudley is the legal affairs correspondent at The Australian covering courts, crime, and changes to the legal industry. She was previously a reporter on the NSW desk and, before that, one of the newspaper’s cadets.

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COVID-19 PANDEMICPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 21, 2021: Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison during Question Time (in quarantine) at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

PM calls urgent leaders’ meeting amid Covid chaos

WA has become the latest state to tighten its borders, joining SA and Darwin with new controls; NSW battles a case surge.

Angelica Snowden, Ellie Dudley, Rhiannon Down and Richard Ferguson

SYDNEY OUTBREAKNation

Fruit shop owner Heng Luong and his wife Lee at their shop in Cabramatta. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Covid fears reach western Sydney

Heng Luong and his wife Lee have owned their fruit shop in Cabramatta for the past 18 years. They have never seen it so quiet.

Ellie Dudley

ExclusiveNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 23: A general view of Sydney International Airport on June 23, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Sydney records 16 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases as strict new social distancing restrictions come into effect at 4pm today. Masks are now compulsory in all indoor non-residential settings, including workplaces. No signing or dancing at venues, dance and gym classes to have a maximum of 20 people at any given time and no more than five visitors to any household, which includes children. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

Infection ‘gaping hole’ warning

NSW government was warned four months ago about unvaccinated and unmasked drivers transporting international air crew.

Ellie Dudley

Tough new restrictionsNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE, 23, 2021: Deep cleaners commence work at St Charles Catholic Primary School at Waverly in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett

Covid fears: states slam shut as outbreak spreads

State borders around the country have slammed shut as the NSW government refused to rule out a lockdown of Sydney

Olivia Caisley and Ellie Dudley

Bondi clusterNation

Covid hot spot, Joh Bailey hairdresser, Knox Street, Double Bay, today.Picture: Justin Lloyd.

High society hair scare

Sydney’s socialite set nervous after hairdresser Joh Bailey’s salon declared a Covid-19 exposure site.

Nicholas Jensen and Ellie Dudley

WEATHERNation

20/06/2021 Tourists (L-R) Christie Hampton and Jono Brauer with children Lilly Brauer and Ashleigh Hampton skiing at Thredbo Resort. Source: Thredbo Resort

Wild weather makes for freezing week

A concoction of damaging winds and icy rain will tear through Australia this week, with winter holidaymakers crossing their fingers the cold weather will mean heavy snowfall.

Ellie Dudley

COVID OUTBREAKNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos June 18, 2021: NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian held a press conference in Sydney today, to give an update on the the current Covid-19 situation. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Swift

Mandatory vaccines ‘state decision’

The Morrison government has directly rebutted claims by the NSW Premier that the national cabinet has stopped her from mandating Covid-19 vaccinations for quarantine workers.

Ellie Dudley

COVID-19Nation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 17, 2021: Premier Gladys Berejiklian during a COVID-19 update in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dylan Coker

Probe into unvaccinated driver

NSW Police are urgently investigating the case at the centre of Sydney’s latest Covid-19 outbreak.

Ellie Dudley

artReview

Human ashes to explode over Hobart

Six years ago, Alex Podger stood with a group of fellow mourners and watched as the ashes of his mentor were loaded into a cannon and shot into the night sky. It gave him a bold idea.

Ellie Dudley

ExclusiveNation

High-profile businessman quits men’s club

Geoff Cousins denounces ‘guffaws and giggling’ among club members before they voted against allowing women to join.

Ellie Dudley and KYLAR LOUSSIKIAN

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