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Petra Rees is the launch editor of The Australian’s Health & Wellbeing section. Rees has been deputy editor of The Australian since 2016, her second stint in the role, and has previously served as national chief-of-staff, deputy editor of The Weekend Australian Magazine, editor of Review and editor of new magazine publications. The Walkley award winner, who has an honours degree in literature, began her career in journalism more than 40 years ago in Wollongong and also worked at the Times on Sunday.

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Putin and friends hit by new sanctions

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin is being increasingly isolated on three fronts in the latest political developments over the downing of MH17.

JACQUELIN MAGNAY in AMSTERDAM

National Affairs

Sister’s call to ban ‘exit’ book

Sister’s call to ban ‘exit’ book

A WOMAN who watched her 39-year-old sister die in Mexico has called for restrictions on Dr Philip Nitschke’s end-of-life advice.

VICTORIA LAURIE

GRABOVO, UKRAINE - JULY 24: A member of a local militia stands guard as vehicles transporting observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and International Committee of the Red Cross visit the main crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 24, 2014 in Grabovo, Ukraine. Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed in eastern Ukraine killing all 298 passengers. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue to find the perpetrators of the attack. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images)

Chunk of fuselage, bodies in forest

INVESTIGATORS have found a piece of fuselage of Malaysian Airline as well as more bodies.

CHARLES MIRANDA

A Palestinian man carries a child, wounded in an Israeli strike on a compound housing a U.N. school in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, into the emergency room of the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, Thursday, July 24, 2014. Israeli tank shells hit the compound, killing more than a dozen people and wounding dozens more who were seeking shelter from fierce clashes on the streets outside. Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra says the dead and injured in the school compound were among hundreds of people seeking shelter from heavy fighting in the area. (AP Photo/Majed Hamdan)

Gaza tragedy echoes around world

IN Gaza, there’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

JOHN LYONS

National Affairs

Schipohl Airport, Amsterdam. Picture shows: Governor General Sir Peter Cosgrove is joined by his wife to place a Wreath to the victims of MH17 at Schipohl airport.

Cosgrove passes on condolences

SIR Peter Cosgrove said he had begun contacting the “brave but devastated’’ families of the victims of MH17.

Jacquelin Magnay

Putin’s interest in dragging matters out

Putin’s interest in dragging matters out

RUSSIA’S strongman Vladimir Putin has behaved brutally and cynically but with considerable tactical flexibility in Ukraine.

Greg Sheridan and comment

Joe should have just shut up

Joe should have just shut up

I’M not sure that it is very useful for the current Treasurer to be expressing his opinion about the soft budget at this stage.

Judith Sloan and comment

EXCLUSIVEHealth and Science

CRUISE NORTHWEST PASSAGE .. for story by Rod Eime .. iceberg in front of Bylot Island, Northwest Passage, Nunavut, Canada, Arctic

Puzzle of deep ocean cooling

IT is not possible to say whether changes in ocean heat adequately explain the “pause” in global warming, two leading scientists have said.

Angela Shanahan

Suicide cult that must be stopped

Suicide cult that must be stopped

PHILIP Nitschke is the chief mover of something resembling a suicide cult.

Angela Shanahan and COMMENT

EXCLUSIVEClive Palmer

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - JULY 15: Leader of the Palmer United Party Clive Palmer during Question Time at Parliament House on July 15, 2014 in Canberra, Australia. A vote on the Government's Carbon Tax Repeal Legislation has been delayed as debate in the Senate continues. (Photo by Stefan Postles/Getty Images)

Palmer staff stripped of cheque power

CLIVE Palmer ensured that top employees would lose control over a bank account holding more than $12m in Chinese funds, court documents say.

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