Jacquelin Magnay

Jacquelin Magnay is the Europe Correspondent for The Australian, based in London and covering all manner of big stories across political, business, Royals and security issues. She is a George Munster and Walkley Award winning journalist with senior media roles in Australian and British newspapers. Before joining The Australian in 2013 she was the UK Telegraph’s Olympics Editor.

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$1m in payments at centre of Rocky Elsom fraud conviction

Documents presented to a criminal court in France detail contentious payments totalling hundreds of thousands of euros made by ex-Wallaby captain Rocky Elsom.

Jacquelin Magnay

UK reactionNation

How The Times reported Lidia Thorpe's protest. Picture: The Times.

‘Moron’: Brits shocked at ‘rabid’ Thorpe’s protest

Britons couldn’t believe Lidia Thorpe’s behaviour in front of the King and Queen, with many appalled someone so ‘disrespectful’ is a parliamentarian.

Jacquelin Magnay

‘it’s a bit fishy, isn’t it?’Sport

HOLD FOR WORLD CUP 14/04/2011 NEWS: BCM 14.4.11 Wallabies Captain Rocky Elsom. Pic Megan Slade. MM430590

‘Stitch up’: ex-Wallabies captain braces for arrest

He says he hasn’t spoken to the police, knew nothing about a court case and was blindsided by a sudden five-year jail term. Now Rocky Elsom says he will fight extradition.

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INQUIRERInquirer

Britain's King Charles III and Britain's Queen Camilla attend the annual Braemar Gathering in Braemar, central Scotland, on September 7, 2024. The Braemar Gathering is a traditional Scottish Highland Games which predates the 1745 Uprising, and since 1848 it has been regularly attended by the reigning Monarch and members of the Royal Family. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP)

Charles’ fierce quest to reign as King for as long as possible

As the King and Queen touch down for a brief visit to Sydney and Canberra, there remains astonishment and awe in his inner circle that Charles insisted on this shortened royal tour at all.

Jacquelin Magnay

UGLY SAGARugby Union

Inside the French rugby club disaster that led to Elsom’s five-year jail term

When the Australian rugby captain Rocky Elsom joined a sleepy rugby outpost on the French Riviera, it was, for him, the last vestiges of his playing career. So why is he now facing jail time?

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ROYAL TOUCHESTravel

The then Prince of Wales at the reopening of Dumfries House,. Picture: Getty Images

Dine like King Charles at this preserved Scottish mansion

Guests are served by butlers while dining in the British monarch’s favourite room at the stately manor he rescued from the auctioneer’s hammer.

Jacquelin Magnay

War aidNation

An Australian Army M1A1 Abrams Tank from the 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry), 7th Combat Brigade fires its main gun during a live fire practice at Shoalwater Bay Training Area as part of Exercise Diamond Run 2017. *** Local Caption *** M1A1 Abrams Tanks from the 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) 7th Combat Brigade conducted a live fire exercise at Shoalwater Bay Training Area as part of Exercise Diamond Run 2017. It's the first time 7th Brigade has employed its newly acquired M1A1 Abrams Tanks on exercise.The incorporation of tanks into 7th Brigade is an important milestone for the Australian Army as it marks the conclusion of Plan Beersheba, a significant restructure of Australias three combat brigades.Ex Diamond Run 2017 is a major exercise that evaluates the foundation war fighting skills of the Armys 7th Brigade.

Tanks for the fight to save a democracy: Australia answers Kyiv’s firepower plea

Australia will donate 49 of the army’s M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine in the nation’s most significant and lethal contribution to the country’s war against Russia.

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Novichok inquiryWorld

Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess were found foaming at the mouth.

No public warning for days over novichok poisonings

Dawn Sturgess collapsed on an early Saturday morning but the Salisbury region wasn’t locked down for a further four days, Novichok inquiry hears.

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Novichok InquiryWorld

(COMBO) This combination of undated handout pictures released by the British Metropolitan Police Service created in London on on September 05, 2018 shows Ruslan Boshirov (L) and Alexander Petrov, who are wanted by British police in connection with the nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. - British prosecutors said Wednesday they have obtained a European arrest warrant for two Russians blamed for a nerve agent attack on a former spy in the city of Salisbury. Police identified Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov as the men who tried to kill Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with Novichok in March 2018. British prosecutors said Wednesday they have obtained a European arrest warrant for two Russians blamed for a nerve agent attack on a former spy in the city of Salisbury. Police identified Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov as the men who tried to kill Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with Novichok in March 2018. (Photos by HO / Metropolitan Police Service / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO / Metropolitan Police Service" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO / Metropolitan Police Service" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS /

Putin behind dishonourable Skripal murder attempt, inquiry hears

The UK government believes the novichok poison attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia in 2018 was so sensitive only Vladimir Putin could have ordered it.

Jacquelin Magnay

Shock DeathWorld

Former Scottish first minister and pro-independence figurehead Alex Salmond comes out to address the media outside court in Edinburgh on January 24, 2019 after being charged in a probe over allegations of sexual harassment. - Former Scottish first minister and pro-independence figurehead Alex Salmond was arrested and charged in a probe over allegations of sexual harassment, police said. (Photo by ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP)

Titan of Scottish politics Salmond died ‘on the spot’ of heart attack

Alex Salmond collapsed and “died on the spot” at the conference he had been attending in North Macedonia after complaining of pains in his leg.

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