James Dowling

James Dowling is a reporter for The Australian’s Sydney bureau. He previously worked as a cadet journalist writing for the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and NewsWire, in addition to this masthead. As an intern at The Age he was nominated for a Quill award for News Reporting in Writing.

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Defence supportDefence

Federal Veteran Affairs minister Matt Keogh at the 81st commemoration of the Bombing of Darwin held at the cenotaph on the esplanade. Picture: (A)manda Parkinson

Vets seek to break ‘malinger mindset’

Former ADF members caught with months-long support waits are turning to private support services to get government recognition.

ExclusiveHealth

Midwife Rachel Bakker demonstrates how to use the new foetal doppler that came in the solar kit installed at Mailu Island's health centre. Photo: YWAM Medical Ships.

Foetal heart monitors ban after ‘tragic’ events

After three stillbirths and one early neonatal death, Australia will end the sale of foetal dopplers for personal use.

Australian filmArts

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 05: Actress Nicole Kidman (centre) with her mother Janelle Ann Kidman (left) and niece Lucia Hawley (right) as they attend the 2018 AACTA Awards Presented by Foxtel at The Star on December 05, 2018 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by James D. Morgan/Getty Images)

Nicole Kidman misses Venice award after mother’s sudden death

Nicole Kidman was absent from the debut of her film Babygirl in Venice on Saturday, revealing her mother Janelle Ann Kidman had died.

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Nation

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. SEPTEMBER 8, 2024. Protesters come face-to-face with Victoria Police during a pro-Palestinian rally in Melbourne. The demonstration saw moments of tension as participants engaged with police officers. Picture: NewsWire/Tamati Smith.

Pro-Palestine protesters clash with police, busker in Melbourne

Protestors are in custody after a brawl broke out in the Melbourne CBD, as activists descended on an arms manufacturer expo.

Campus anti-SemitismNation

06/09/2024. Student Dror Liraz, 19, at the protest. Jewish students protest at the University of Sydney, to demand Mark Scott be removed as VC of the school. Britta Campion / The Australian

Jewish uni students call for Scott to resign

Students from both sides of the ideological spectrum have called for vice-chancellor Mark Scott’s head, as Jewish students fear campuses are unsafe.

ongoing sagaNation

The Daily telegraph 20.8.2024 This is the specific area area that has been opposed to put a tailings dam due to it being of cultural significance. Where Belubula River intersects with Dungeon Road. McPhillamys Gold Project, Regis Resources Limited, Dungeon Road Kings Plains. Picture: Rohan Kelly

Wiradyuri group behind Blayney mine shutdown speak up

Indigenous elders from the long-silent Central West Aboriginal Corporation have alleged ‘slander’ and ‘threats’ after their role in stalling the Blayney gold mine.

ExclusiveHealth

25/6/24. Sujatha Rice suffered a serious eye disease (Macylar-Oedema) and was on insulin for type 2 diabetes. Her Doctor James Muekce put her on a Keto diet which has helped her eye disease and also got her off insulin.Hannah - 17, Sujatha and Lydia - 7yrs.Picture: Keryn Stevens

Type 2 diabetes blindness curbed by diet change

Macular oedema is one of the most feared side effects of diabetes, but a growing number of patients are putting it into remission through a new lifestyle.

Electoral redistributionPolitics

CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - August 15, 2024: Peter Khalil during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Greens gear up for a showdown in Wills

Labor faces a tighter contest against the Greens in the Victorian seat of Wills following an electoral redistribution, but the Liberals have been hit with setbacks in the seats of Deakin and Menzies

HealthHealth

Generic photo in hospital - senior woman has hospital check. Picture: iStock

Fury over private hospital ‘scare tactics’ campaign

The battle over private health has exploded into a bitter public war as health insurers respond with fury to suggestions patients may be denied cancer treatment and maternity care.

researchHealth

Randwick's Cabous Eloff. Sydney University v Randwick (7Two Match of the Day), Rd 10 Shute Shield 2020 at Sydney University Football Ground - Saturday 19 September 2020.

Community sports ‘safe from lifetime concussion harm’

New research suggests non-professional sports players are not at risk of lifelong neurological damage from concussions, and that contact sports players perform better cognitively than the average person.

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