Joanna Panagopoulos

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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nominationsHigher Education

Professor Robert Park’s vision led to the creation of the Australian Cereal Rust Control Program, the only research program in the world that fully integrates pathology, genetics and pre-breeding. The centre collaborates with privately funded cereal breeding programs, ensuring the research directly benefits farmers.

Voting open in Shaping Australia Awards

The Shaping Australia Awards recognise academics for transforming Australian lives for the better.

Joanna Panagopoulos

courtsNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos OCTOBER 6, 2024: A protester pictured holding a flag that has a Nazi like symbol on it at the protest in Hyde Park. Protestors gather at Hyde Park in Sydney's CBD to demand an end to the ongoing war and Israel's current occupation of Gaza, and the escalating Israel-Lebanon conflict. PICTURE SHOWS Al Yazbek Picture: NewsWire / Damian Shaw

Nomad restaurant founder Al Yazbek sentenced over Nazi symbol

The embattled restaurant founder escaped conviction for holding a hand-drawn sign with a swastika on an Israeli flag at a pro-Palestine rally.

Joanna Panagopoulos and Liam Mendes

reactionNation

09-12-2024 - Mohammed El-Hamwi, Syrian-Australian community leader. Photo: Liam Mendes / The Australian

Syrian diaspora happy but wary

Syrian-Australian community leader Mohammed Al-Hamwi says he will return to Syria for the first time in 40 years following the collapse of the Assad regime.

Joanna Panagopoulos, Alexi Demetriadi and Liam Mendes

exclusiveNation

Anthony Williamson SC, the acting ACT Director of Public Prosecutions. Picture: ACT DPP

Rape victims cannot be automatically believed, ex-DPP says

Former ACT chief prosecutor Anthony Williamson’s comments come amid a growing civil war in Canberra’s tight-knit legal profession over the handling of rape cases.

Janet Albrechtsen and Joanna Panagopoulos

EXCLUSIVEEducation

Trans students could be excluded from ‘collision’ sports

A review of 10-year-old legal advice on gender-diverse participation in competitive school sport could result in trans students being excluded based on ‘risk of injury’.

Joanna Panagopoulos

CourtsApple News – The Australian

Artist Sketch of Christopher Dawson in court today. He is appealing his conviction. Picture: Vincent de Gouw

Dawson says guilty verdict in carnal knowledge case ‘unreasonable’

The convicted wife killer has launched an appeal to overturn a conviction over the unlawful carnal knowledge of a schoolgirl he went on to marry.

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’motivation to lie’Nation

Political lobbyist Michael Kauter (right), executive chairman of Strategic Political Counsel, has been arrested overnight faced a Sydney court today [04/12/24] charged with breaching an apprehended domestic violence order involving his husband, kidney transplant specialist Professor David Gracey (left). https://www.facebook.com/strategicpoliticalcounsel/https://www.facebook.com/michaelkauter

Marriage breakdown lands political lobbyist in custody

The breakdown of a marriage and claims over the matrimonial finances of a political spinner and an RPA renal specialist, who once owned a $9.5m Mosman home together, has landed the lobbyist in custody.

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CourtsNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire photos NOVEMBER 18, 2024: Alan Jones is released on bail from Day Street Police Station in Sydney. Picture: NewsWire / Dylan Coker

Explosive new allegations in Alan Jones case

A charge document reveals the new details of the complaints made against the former broadcaster, in which he allegedly committed predatory indecent attacks against nine men.

Joanna Panagopoulos

middle eastPolitics

Melbourne woman Nikki Perzuck's 19-year-old cousin Naama Levy was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7. A disturbing video of her capture was viewed by millions across the world. In the video her pants are covered in blood. She remains one of 97 hostages still in Hamas captivity - one year on. Picture: Jason Edwards

Trump offers hope for hostages, but PM and Wong turn on Israel again

The Albanese government is set to once again switch its vote on key UN resolutions, including one supporting an ‘irreversible pathway’ to a Palestinian state, as the family of an Israeli hostage said Donald Trump’s Hamas vow had given them ‘some optimism’.

Ben Packham, Joanna Panagopoulos and Joe Kelly

EXTENDED REALITYHigher Education

Haven XR and UniSC partnership with WIL design student Liam (in grey t shirt) and Dr Leah Barclay

XR design gets real on the Sunshine Coast

The University of the Sunshine Coast and extended reality company HavenXR are fast-tracking local students in the new technology that merges both the physical and virtual worlds.

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