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

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 13, 2021: Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton addresses the media during a press conference in Melbourne.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Luis Ascui

Sutton warns Victorians: ‘It’s not over yet’

While Victoria records only one new local case, six mystery cases among two current outbreaks in the state ‘are a concern’, says CHO.

Rachel Baxendale, John Ferguson, Joseph Lam and Ellie Dudley

WorldWorld

(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 12, 2018 a Humpback whale jumps in the surface of the Pacific Ocean at the Uramba Bahia Malaga National Natural Park in Colombia. - It sounds like a real-life take on "Pinocchio" -- a US lobster fisherman says he was scooped into the mouth of a humpback whale on June 11, 2021 and yet lived to tell the story. (Photo by Miguel MEDINA / AFP)

Whale swallows lobster diver

Michael Packard thought he was being eaten by a shark. But he couldn’t feel any teeth.

Ellie Dudley

COVID-19 PANDEMICNation

Daniel Andrews posted this picture in a health update on social media. Picture: supplied Andrews office

Daniel Andrews cleared to return to work

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews will return to work at the end of the month after his doctors revealed his broken back had largely healed.

John Ferguson and Ellie Dudley

ExclusiveNation

Elite men’s club vote: are women wanted?

The country’s most prestigious gentlemen’s establishment, the Australian Club, will vote on whether to allow women to join.

KYLAR LOUSSIKIAN and Ellie Dudley

WeatherNation

Paul Heginbothom and Erin Flynn with their children Lily (7 months) and George (3) at Thredbo in the snow on Wednesday. 9 June 2021Photo by Rohan Thomson

Snow business is really cool for kids

A cold front will blast NSW and the ACT for the rest of the week, setting the ski season up for a great start.

Ellie Dudley

Nation

8/6/21: Elliott Routledge in his studio in Annandale with some his work. He is a sculptor participating in the Sydney Contemporary Arts Fair in September. John Feder/The Australian.

Concrete expressions of life’s changing psychology

When you stand in front of one of Elliott Routledge’s sculptures, you are met with a reflection of yourself.

Ellie Dudley

CRIMENation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MAY, 26, 2021: Steve Barrett leaves the Supreme Court in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett

Steve Barrett to face retrial

A jury couldn’t reach a verdict on whether he blackmailed a fraud syndicate to extort $5m from the scam’s alleged mastermind.

Ellie Dudley and KIERAN GAIR

CRIMENation

*** WARNING - FACES MUST BE BLURRED OTHER THAN HANSEN'S *** Peter Hansen, was the branch President of Cabramatta ALP at the time of his arrest. Source - https://www.facebook.com/peter.hansen.357622/photos

Ex-ALP official’s ‘egregious’ child sex cache

Former Labor branch president and priest Peter Hansen stashed more than 100,000 files of child sex abuse material before he was arrested.

Ellie Dudley

pandemicPolitics

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 02: Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton speaks to the media during a press conference on June 02, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. Lockdown restrictions have been extended for another seven days as new COVID-19 cases continue to emerge linked to the current community cluster. residents can only leave home for five reasons: care and caregiving, exercise, work and to buy groceries, or to get vaccinated, but can now travel within a 10km radius from home. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)

Fears variant can infect two hours on

Victorian authorities fear a two-hour gap between an infected person leaving a grocery store and another person entering was enough contact for the virus to spread.

Remy Varga and Ellie Dudley

Murray DarlingNation

Murray-Darling wetlands ‘degraded’

A new report has found the federal government failed to prioritise fragile wetlands in the Murray-Darling Basin.

Ellie Dudley and Joseph Lam

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