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Nicholas Jensen is commentary editor at The Australian. He previously worked as a reporter in the masthead’s NSW bureau. He studied history at the University of Melbourne, where he obtained a BA (Hons), and holds an MPhil in British and European History from the University of Oxford.

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Railway workers stand around a locomotive at Barcaldine in Central Western Queensland in the early 20th Century. Photo Courtesy The State Library of Queensland.

A whistle stop tour of rail

Ever since the colony of Queensland was formed there have always been the railways somewhere in the background.

Nicholas Jensen

TravelWeekend Australian Magazine

Brush with fame at this historic estate

This estate 200km south of Sydney is nirvana for eco-conscious travellers as well as musicians, artists and writers.

Nicholas Jensen

Weekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 11 MARCH 2023. FEE MAY APPLY. Artistic deirector of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti. Photo: Supplied

‘Sometimes I need to say, No, f..k off’

Richard Tognetti on the joys – and challenges – of running the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Nicholas Jensen

HealthNation

In this photograph taken on December 18, 2017, seven year old French child Anais, undergoes heart surgery to cure a congenital Atrial septal defect, at an operating theatre at The Marie Lannelongue Hospital at Le Plessis-Robinson south of Paris. The intervention is being undertaken by a Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery team of the hospital in Le Plessis-Robinson which specialises in thoracic and cardiovascular surgeries, and congenital heart diseases. / AFP PHOTO / THOMAS SAMSON

Aussie heart patients ‘put off lifesaving treatment’

Australians are not only delaying lifesaving treatment for cardiovascular disease, an international study highlights many are often unwilling to undergo follow-up procedures after surgery.

Nicholas Jensen

repatriation rowNation

Four Australian Aboriginal spears taken by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770 from Kamay (Botany Bay), are to be repatriated back to Country. Trinity College Cambridge in the United Kingdom has agreed to permanently return the four spears to the La Perouse Aboriginal community.

Historian blasts return of spears

A leading Cambridge historian has criticised his university’s decision to repatriate four Indigenous spears to Australia.

Nicholas Jensen

crimeNation

Sefton gym shooting victim Taha Sabbagh poses with the UFC belt. https://www.instagram.com/p/CkHCNtyyBXc/

Police probe crime links in ‘execution-style murder’

Police are hunting for multiple gunmen after a father was gunned down in front of his 12-year-old son in Sydney’s southwest.

Nicholas Jensen and Tricia Rivera

‘frenzied attack’Nation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos APRIL 05, 2021 - The Auburn Police Station in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Christian Gilles

‘No choice’ but to shoot man dead: police

The 32-year-old man was gunned down in Sydney’s west overnight, after he knifed a cleaner then attempted to attack police.

Rhiannon Down and Nicholas Jensen

Coronial hearingIndigenous

Zachary Rolfe stands proud after he is found not guilty of all charges. Picture: (A)manda Parkinson

Rolfe tried ‘to pervert course of justice’

Zachary Rolfe faces disciplinary action by NT Police after its legal counsel suggested he tried to intimidate senior officers.

Nicholas Jensen

True Spies: EspionageReview

NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11: Hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center and explodes at 9:03 a.m. on September 11, 2001 in New York City. The crash of two airliners hijacked by terrorists loyal to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and subsequent collapse of the twin towers killed some 2,800 people. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Bin Laden’s hideout? A little bird told them

A rare species of game bird brought the CIA within striking distance of Osama bin Laden, two years before the 9/11 attacks. One of the great missed opportunities in US espionage is now under the microscope.

Nicholas Jensen

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