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Noah Yim is a reporter at The Australian’s Canberra press gallery bureau. He previously worked out of the newspaper’s Sydney newsroom. He joined The Australian following News Corp’s 2022 cadetship program.

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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 04: People wave their phone lights in support of hostages still held by Hamas during a solidarity protest, calling for an end to the war and the release of all remaining hostages on October 04, 2025 in Tel Aviv, Israel. This week, Hamas said it would partly accede to a peace deal brokered by the U.S. president and release the Israeli hostages held in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023. However, the Palestinian militant group asked for negotiations on several conditions of the 20-point-plan. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which represents loved ones of the Israeli captives, said in a statement that

Trump warns Hamas to ‘back Gaza peace deal or else’

The US President is pushing hard to get his plan to end the Gaza war over the line, warning the Palestinian terror group to ‘move fast’ or ‘all bets are off’.

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Radicals planning October 7 ‘resistance’ protest

Anti-Israel activists are set to gather in Bankstown to honour ‘resistance’ on the two-year anniversary of terrorist group Hamas’s attack on Israel.

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EXCLUSIVEPolitics

Arts Minister Tony Bourke speaking at a press conference for Art of Tax Reform Summit at The Opera House. It brings together economics and tax policy experts as well as artists, donors, venue operators and other participants in the arts and culture fields. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Home Affairs replaced King Charles ‘temporary’ portraits with ministers

The Home Affairs department, now headed by Tony Burke, ordered that portraits of King Charles in its offices be substituted with those of then-minister Clare O’Neil, it’s been revealed.

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‘opposite direction’Nation

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - September 2, 2025: Attorney-General of Australia, Michelle Rowland during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Former high-powered public servants whack Labor’s FOI changes

Two former high-powered public servants who had been charged with ensuring integrity in the federal bureaucracy have slammed the Albanese government’s move to crack down on freedom of information laws.

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ExclusivePolitics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 25 2025;Tony Burke, Federal Minister for the Arts, John Graham, NSW Minister for the Arts and Daniel Mookhey, NSW Treasurer, join Colin Brooks, Victorian Minister for Creative Industries, Andrea Michaels, South Australian Minister for Arts and Simone McGurk, Western Australian Minister for Creative Industries to the Art of Tax Reform Summit. Photo: NewsWire/ Gaye Gerard

How Labor seats dominated citizenship rush

Fresh figures show overwhelmingly most extra ceremonies ordered by Tony Burke before the May election campaign began were in Labor electorates, with just one in Coalition territory.

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EXCLUSIVENation

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 27, 2024: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Australia's Communications Minister, Michelle Rowland during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Labor’s secrecy problems deepen as left-wing allies revolt

Groups including the public servants’ union and Environmental Defenders Office are now sounding the alarm over Labor’s transparency crackdown.

Noah Yim and Richard Ferguson

EXCLUSIVEMedical

Premier Peter Malinauskas MP ,Chris Picton MP South Australian Minister for Health and Wellbeing and Treasurer Stephen Mulligan during a tour and press conference at the New Emergency Department of Queen Elizabeth Hospital Wednesday ,June,5,2024.Picture Mark Brake

States to PM: boost hospital funds by $47bn

Premiers are demanding the Albanese government provide almost $50bn extra to their hospital systems over the next five years.

Noah Yim, Sarah Ison and Greg Brown

Politics NowNation

This picture taken on September 16, 2025, shows Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape (R) and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attending the flag lowering ceremony marking Papua New Guinea's 50th Anniversary in Port Moresby. (Photo by Andrew KUTAN / AFP)

Albanese hails PNG’s defence treaty approval as ‘formal alliance’

Papua New Guinea now has a ‘formal alliance’ with Australia for its security, says Anthony Albanese, after PNG’s cabinet approved the Pukpuk treaty following a delay.

Ben Packham, Richard Ferguson and Noah Yim

Housing stockNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. October 1, 2025. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Minister for Housing, Clare OÃNeil hold a doorstop in Sydney to mark the start of the expanded 5% home deposit scheme. Picture: NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

PM: our housing policy will drive ‘slight’ house price increase

Anthony Albanese concedes his flagship housing policy won’t deliver significant new homes for two years despite worsening affordability crisis.

Noah Yim and Matthew Cranston

EXCLUSIVENation

Generic image of Melbourne University. Picture: University of Melbourne

‘Unprecedented surge’ in student visa appeals clogging up tribunal

Figures published by the department show challenging student visa refusals made up 9.1 per cent of total lodgments before the pandemic. But by 2024-25, this had blown out to 38.6 per cent.

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