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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Indigenous

Aboriginal opposition to more coercion laws

Aboriginal advocates have pleaded a NSW parliamentary committee to keep the existing coercive control laws, amid fears new legislation would lead to more incarcerations of Indigenous people.

Ellie Dudley

MANSLAUGHTERNation

Judge: I was wrong in erotic asphyxiation sentencing

A Wagga Wagga judge has admitted to an ‘error’ in his sentencing of a former air force corporal who choked his partner to death during sex.

Ellie Dudley

coronavirusNation

International travel agent ,Maria Xylas's business is on its last legs as the JobKeeper subsidy is rescinded as of the 28th of March.She is the only worker in her business, and will not be receiving a pay cheque until international travel returns. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Livelihoods crumble as JobKeeper ends

As the flow of cash coming from the wage subsidy dries up, businesses across the country are feeling the impact with some fearful for their future.

Ellie Dudley

RESTRICTIONS LIFTEDNation

The music festival Summer in the Domain has been given an exemption to start dancing a day earlier as revellers take the directive (L-R) Georgie Exton, Angelica Angeles, Jolene Haddad, Clare maroon and Jessi Sapsed cut loose. Dancing restrictions will be lifted in NSW from Monday. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Sydneysiders get their groove back and boogie

After 12 months of waiting, NSW residents are finally permitted to dance again under new, relaxed restrictions for the state.

Ellie Dudley

THE BIGGIESLeadership

Coles chief Steven Cain in the supermarket chain's Tooronga Village store's new pre-prepared meals area. Picture: Andrew Henshaw

For Coles, Covid crisis ‘was a time to step up’

For Coles, the coronavirus was a time to step up and ensure essentials were available and shoppers were safe.

Ellie Dudley

LIVE: POLITICS NOWPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 25: Prime Minister Scott Morrison during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House on March 25, 2021 in Canberra, Australia. The federal government was on Monday set back by new allegationsÃÂ broadcastÃÂ by the Ten Network after pixelated images of unnamed Coalition advisers allegedly engaging in performing lewd sex acts on the desks of female MPs resulting in a Morrison staff member being sacked last night. Additionally, the ABC Network aired a first hand account by an Australian Parliament security guard of what she witnessed on the night Brittany Higgins was allegedly raped in the office of then-defence industry minister Linda Reynolds in early 2019. (Photo by Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

‘Important to get it right’ on Higgins

Scott Morrison has offered to meet Brittany Higgins anywhere in Australia.

Ellie Dudley and Richard Ferguson

LIVE: POLITICS NOWPolitics

Porter, Reynolds will stay in my cabinet: PM

Scott Morrison has confirmed Attorney-General Christian Porter and Defence Minister Linda Reynolds will remain in cabinet after his ministerial reshuffle.

Rosie Lewis and Ellie Dudley

‘orgies, prostitutes’Politics