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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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SuperannuationNation

18th July 2018.National President of the Australian Labor Party and former Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan speaking at the ACTU Congress in Brisbane.Photo: Glenn Hunt / The Australian

Ministers told to show their benefits

The boss of a major investment fund has challenging federal ministers who back a superannuation cap of $3m or $5m to disclose their own retirement benefits.

David Ross and Nicholas Jensen

NSWPolitics

Dr John McIntosh from the GP Super ClinicPhoto Tony Martin / Daily Mercury

Doctors decry payroll tax, warn of trainee exodus

The country’s peak medical body has warned the number of trainee GPs will plummet if NSW follows through on a controversial draft proposal to change payroll tax.

Nicholas Jensen

HOSTAGE SITUATIONNation

Looking back on the Kokoda plateau from near the start of the Kokoda Track, Papua New Guinea. Picture: Supplied Byrob Klima

PNG ‘thugs’ kidnap Australian professor

An archaeologist held captive by an armed gang in the PNG highlands is unharmed and attempting to negotiate his way out.

Amanda Hodge and Nicholas Jensen

exclusivePolitics

Independent MP Alex Greenwich speaking during the passing of the amended Abortion Law Reform Act which was passed in the Legislative Assembly in State Parliament in Sydney, Thursday, September 26, 2019. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

Faith leaders challenge draft gay conversion bill

Church leaders and psychiatrists have warned that a draft bill prohibiting gay conversion therapy in NSW must avoid the ‘mistakes’ of Victorian laws.

Nicholas Jensen

exclusiveHorse Racing

Introduction equine interns (L-R) Harrison Edwards(19) and Georgia Gumm (16) with a bay colt, by champion sire So You Think and Dam Power of Love. The Australia first program was set up to recruit new staff to fill vital thoroughbred breeding and racing industry jobs. Some of the top figures in Australian thoroughbred racing have joined forces with influential breeder Steve Grant from Silverdale Farm to provide this education. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

It’s courses for horses as interns saddle up

Business student Harrison Edwards had never ridden a horse or even walked into a stable before this week when he started at the Silverdale Academy

Nicholas Jensen

Nation

Kieran Ngo (R), 26, who died from a suspected drug overdose just hours after attending Transmission Festival in Sydney on Saturday. Picture: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/vsaatuts/photos/a.775977492578706/775981415911647

One dead after spate of festival overdoses

A Sydney man has died and at least twelve others were hospitalised following a series of suspected drug overdoses at a popular Sydney music festival.

Nicholas Jensen

PAYING TRIBUTENation

10/02/2023. Afghani born Auburn resident Amin Shoaib with his grandson Isaac 4 were in attendance to show their respect for the victims of the earthquake in Turkey. Friday Prayers at the Auburn Gallipoli Mosque in Auburn in Sydney's Western suburbs. The sermon was on the Kahramanmaras earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Chris Minns, NSW Labor leader attended. Britta Campion / The Australian

Sending prayers and personnel

Muslim worshippers gathered to commemorate those who died in the Turkey-Syrian earthquakes, as Australian search and rescue personnel prepare to touch down in Turkey on Saturday.

Nicholas Jensen

exclusiveNation

Anglican Archbishop Glenn Daviesat St Andrew's Cathedral Sydney.Hundreds of thousands of Christians across the country will watch mass via live stream during Holy Week, with gatherings and masses stopped because of the coronavirus. Picture's Darren Leigh Roberts

No ‘woke’ gender neutral god in my church: Bishop

The bishop of the breakaway Anglican movement, the Diocese of the Southern Cross, says a proposal to stop referring to God as ‘He’ or ‘Our Father’ is a vindication of his split with the church.

Nicholas Jensen

exclusiveHigher Education

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - MAY 31, 2022.Professor Nikolai Petrovsky leaves the Brisbane Supreme Court. Prof Petrovsky gave evidence in a trial challenging mandatory Covid vaccination by more than 70 police and ambulance officers.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dan Peled

University to sever ties with ‘refusenik’ vax developer

Vaccine developer Nikolai Petrovsky is set to lose of his academic affiliation at Flinders University after a meeting of its senior executive resolved to end its relationship with the professor.

Nicholas Jensen

Australia Day honoursNation

Former senator Margaret Reynolds at Hobart. Picture: Chris Kidd

Just rewards for women among wealth of talent

This year’s Australia Day Honours list boasts more women than ever: 48 per cent of all recipients | SEARCH THE FULL LIST

Nicholas Jensen

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