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Hedley ThomasNational Chief Correspondent

Hedley Thomas is The Australian’s national chief correspondent, specialising in investigative reporting with an interest in legal issues, the judiciary, corruption and politics. He has won eight Walkley awards including two Gold Walkleys; the first in 2007 for his investigations into the fiasco surrounding the Australian Federal Police investigations of Dr Mohamed Haneef, and the second in 2018 for his podcast, The Teacher’s Pet, investigating the 1982 murder of Sydney mother Lynette Dawson. You can contact Hedley confidentially at thomash@theaustralian.com.au

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Investigations

`Peak body’ has just two members

An insulation industry executive has denied misleading the public

Hedley Thomas

State Politics

Mackenroth savaged over GP financial loss

Terry Mackenroth approved a payment of $2 million for a company one day after being told its operations in Britain had plunged into liquidation.

Hedley Thomas and Chief correspondent

Opinion

Former treasurer an acute embarrassment

THE ties that helped Terry Mackenroth enjoy the taxpayer-funded grace and favour of the Queensland Labor government have been fraying for some time, says Hedley Thomas.

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News

Keelty’s support vanishes

AFP chief Mick Keelty has refused to countenance resigning despite new pressure over his call for a media blackout during terror cases.

Hedley Thomas and Cameron Stewart

News

Bligh reveals family’s dark secret

AFTER two decades of estrangement from her father Bill, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has begun trying to better understand her roots – and the troubled, alcoholic dad who links her to the Rum Rebellion’s infamous Governor William Bligh, ill-fated captain of the Bounty.

Hedley Thomas

Inquirer

Destined for a gory Christmas via Transylvania

A FEW days before Christmas 1989, a request arrived to head for Bucharest to cover the seeds of potential revolution.

DANGER ZONE, Correspondents under fire and Hedley Thomas

The Nation

Modernising mayor ‘Mr Brisbane’ dies

OBITUARY Clem Jones Surveyor and former Brisbane lord mayor. Born Ipswich January 16, 1918; died Brisbane December 15, 2007, aged 89.

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Legal Affairs

Haneef prosecutor demoted

THE prosecutor at the centre of the Mohamed Haneef debacle involving the commonwealth DPP and Australian Federal Police has been punished with a demotion, triggering protests from fellow lawyers and calls for AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty to take responsibility for the mistakes by his officers.

Hedley Thomas

Inquirer

Much ado about nothing

THANKS to the ‘usual suspects’, the Heiner affair is Queenland’s grassy knoll.

Hedley Thomas

Defence

RAAF pilot on a high with his super new Hornet

STRAPPED into the cockpit of Australia’s newest fighter jet while soaring across mountain peaks in California’s Yosemite National Park and east over Sierra Nevada, pilot John Haly is putting the $100 million-plus Super Hornet to the test.

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