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Joanna started her career as a cadet at News Corp’s local newspaper network, reporting mostly on crime and courts across Sydney’s suburbs. She then worked as a court reporter for the News Wire before joining The Australian’s youth-focused publication The Oz.

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Chef Ed Halmagyi remains positive despite vandals leaving spray painted Hamas symbols on his bakery, AvnerÃs, in Surry Hills, Sydney on Sunday, October 13, 2024 . Picture: Nikki Short

TV chef defiant after anti-Semitic attack in Sydney

Large red inverted Hamas triangles, painted overnight on Avner’s bakery in Sydney, were accompanied by a note slipped under the door warning him to ‘be careful’.

Joanna Panagopoulos

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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos October 11, 2024: SOCIAL MEDIA SUMMIT DAY 2: Mike Burgess AM, ASIO Director-General of Security. Picture: NewsWire / Dean Martin

Social media ‘world’s most potent accelerator’ of extremism: ASIO

ASIO director-general Mike Burgess has outlined how radicalising people has changed since the height of ISIS and Al Qaeda with the internet.

Joanna Panagopoulos

HealthPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 4, 2021: Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Covid medical chief retires

Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly, who helped lead the nation through the Covid pandemic, has retired from the position.

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Adrienne Nieuwenhuis TEQSA Acting Chief Commissioner

TEQSA tests Australia’s academic cheating laws with US company

Australia’s university regulator has initiated a legal challenge against a US ‘education support’ company for allegedly prohibiting cheating laws.

Joanna Panagopoulos

MemorialsPolitics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – NewsWire Photos -Monday, 7 October 2024: The Jewish community vigil Monday night at Christison Park in Vaucluse. Picture:NewsWire / Monique Harmer

‘Stand up for Israel’: extraordinary show of unity to mark October 7

Around 12,000 people gathered in Sydney and Melbourne, as Steven Lowy called on Australians to act during this ‘moment in time’, warning otherwise ‘history will be forgotten’ | WATCH

Joanna Panagopoulos and Mohammad Alfares

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DAILY TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 7, 2024. Sheikh Wesam Charkawi speaking at the United Community Rally for Palestine and Lebanon being held at the Lakemba Mosque. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Sheik slams Burke as vigils, demonstrations take place

Muslim Vote convener Sheik Wesam Charkawi has lashed Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke for ‘failing to condemn Israel’, as vigils and rallies take place across the nation to mark the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ terror attack.

Alexi Demetriadi, Ellie Dudley, Mohammad Alfares and Joanna Panagopoulos

October 7World

2/10/24: Michal Ohana at Bondi Beach. On Sunday there will be a memorial sunset ceremony for October 7, where Michal Ohana will light a 2m+ candle on Sydney Harbour. It will be a beautiful backdrop and due to the time difference, will be one of the first global commemorations of October 7. John Feder/The Australian.

A year on, the fear and the fight are still the same for survivor

A year has passed since Michal Ohana hid underneath a military tank for seven hours in southern Israel as she watched and heard Hamas militants kill dozens of people in the festival grounds around her.

Joanna Panagopoulos

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - OCTOBER 3, 2024:Protestors rally against NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb who has lodged proceedings with the Supreme Court to stop pro-Palestine rallies in Sydney on Monday October 7. Picture: NewsWire / Simon Bullard

Police drop bid to stop October 6 protest

NSW police have abandoned a bid to stop a protest going ahead in Sydney’s CBD on October 6 – the eve of the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel – after telling a court it could be a ‘tinder box’ for Sydney.

Joanna Panagopoulos and Alexi Demetriadi

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Giggle for Girls founder Sall Grover leaves the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney, Friday, August 23, 2024. Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle was barred from using the female-only platform Giggle for Girls and has accused the social media site of discrimination. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

Giggle for Girls founder fights finding that ‘sex is changeable’

The move comes after a judge found excluding a transgender woman from a women’s-only social media app amounted to indirect discrimination.

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Police, protesters strike deal for October 7 eve rally

The NSW Police Commissioner has withdrawn an application to stop the planned demonstration after the Palestine Action Group agreed to avoid the Great Synagogue.

Joanna Panagopoulos and Jack Newman

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