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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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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - APRIL 17, 2024.Greens Senator Penny Allman-Payne asks questions during a hearing of the Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport in Brisbane. The committee discussed Australiaâs preparedness to host Commonwealth, Olympic and Paralympic Games.Picture: Dan Peled / NCA NewsWire

Greens cash splash a ‘tone deaf contribution’ to education policy debate

A $10bn Greens cash splash to make public schools completely free is a ‘tone deaf contribution’ to the education policy debate.

Joanna Panagopoulos

900 media attendMedia

Childhood Holocaust Survivor Eddy Boas pictured at home in Sydney on Sunday, January 27, 2025. Picture: Nikki Short

Holocaust survivor slams no show ABC as world media descend on Auschwitz

Eddy Boas says the ABC’s decision to not be among 78 TV networks to send journalists to Poland for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was ‘a disgrace’.

Jacquelin Magnay, Joanna Panagopoulos and James Madden

Australia Day honoursNation

Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs in Sydney. She has announced an inquiry into children in detention.Pic James Croucher

‘It was the right thing to do’: Triggs stands tall after storm

Gillian Triggs has reflected on a tumultuous time at the top of the Australian Human Rights Commission as she received the nation’s highest honour for her human rights work.

Joanna Panagopoulos

policyPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - January 24, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addresses the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Billions more for public schools

Anthony Albanese told the National Press Club the federal government has secured new schools funding agreements with Victoria and South Australia, after months of stalled negotiations.

Joanna Panagopoulos

vandalismNation

24/01/25. The Daily Telegraph. News. Randwick, Sydney, NSW. Pics by Julian Andrews.Pictures of The Captain Cook Statue in Randwick which was vandalised and damaged overnight just two days ahead of Australia Day.

Captain Cook vandals roundly condemned

The vandalism attack has been condemned by the NSW Premier and Randwick councillors. While a Greens councillor says its ‘time to look at other options’.

Joanna Panagopoulos and James Dowling

Sydney attacksNation

A second man has been arrested after an alleged attempt to set a religious building on fire in Newtown earlier this month.

Arresting development: finally cops unite against anti-Semitism

The nation’s police chiefs have finally united to establish a cross-nation taskforce to fight anti-Semitism, as suspects involved in an attack on a Jewish deli allegedly refused to hand over phone passwords.

Liam Mendes, Joanna Panagopoulos and Alexi Demetriadi

international studentsHigher Education

DAILY TELEGRAPH NOVEMBER 11, 2024. University of Sydney International students Hazel Fu and Marco Yim on campus in Camperdown. Hazel Fu is from China and studying to be a dietician and Marco Yim from Hong Kong who is studying exercise physiology and works at a residential aged care facility in Leichhardt while heÃ¢â¬â¢s earning his degree, and would love to stay on in Australia once qualified. Picture: Jonathan Ng

More pain for unis amid cap doubt

See the worst and best placed universities to manage the uncertainty.

Joanna Panagopoulos

Anti-SemitismNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. JANUARY 21, 2025. The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns visit the childcare centre in Maroubra that was firebombed last night in what was an anti-semitic attack. Picture: NewsWire/ Julian Andrews

‘Scumbags’ torch childcare centre, cops act

NSW police have doubled the number of detectives on the hate crimes taskforce after ‘scumbags’ firebombed and vandalised a childcare centre in Sydney.

Alexi Demetriadi and Joanna Panagopoulos

EXCLUSIVEDefence

A generic photo of ADF soldiers training at Mt Bundy outside Darwin, Army, defence, weapon, Picture: Glenn Campbell

‘Understrength’ reserves to undergo Ukraine-style training

A new approach to preparing the nation’s part-time soldiers would be modelled on a program to train Ukrainian nationals to fight Russian forces, allowing the ADF reserves to ‘rapidly scale’ in the event of a ‘crisis’.

Joanna Panagopoulos

AviationNation

Photos of the scene of the police operation to recover a microlight aircraft which crashed in the sea south of Nambucca Heads yesterday. Two people died when the aircraft crashed about 4pm (Saturday 4 January 2024), into the ocean about 1km east of Gumma. Picture is the Cockpit tied to a red flotation buoy tethered to the beach via a rope. The undercarriage (wheels) are still attached to the cockpit. Picture: Supplied

Experienced instructors killed in light plane crash

Two bodies have been recovered after a small plane crashed off the NSW North Coast.

Joanna Panagopoulos

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