Rhiannon Down

Rhiannon Down is a political reporter in The Australian’s Canberra bureau. She began her career at the paper in the Sydney bureau, where she covered mostly courts and crime, after joining the newspaper as a cadet.

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MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 1, 2025: Leader of the opposition Peter Dutton is in Melbourne at the Asian Business Association of Whitehorse Lunar New Year Festival & Parade. Picture: NewsWire / Luis Enrique Ascui

State defies Labor pause plea in trans probe

Queensland is set to defy the Albanese government’s request to pause its investigation into gender transition therapies to make way for a federal review.

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EXCLUSIVENation

Queensland LNP Senator Susan McDonald in Cairns at the announcement that the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility will become permanent under a coalition government. Picture: Brendan Radke

EDO could be stripped of its charity status

The EDO could be stripped of its charity status if the non-profit commission finds it breached public trust and failed to act responsibly in its legal challenge against Santos.

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POLITICSNation

Coal mining union leader Tony Maher, a close ally of Anthony Albanese, has been named the new chair of Safe Work Australia.

Ex-union boss to lead Safe Work

One of Anthony Albanese’s closest union allies, Tony Maher, has been appointed to lead the workplace health and safety watchdog.

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ADF recruit process faces cultural fight

Peter Dean has lashed the government for being ‘exceptionally slow’ on addressing the defence force’s workforce crisis, warning young recruits are struggling with the lack of connection to the outside world.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos OCTOBER 4, 2024: Security guards outside the entrance to The Great Synagouge in the Sydney CBD. Police held concerns about Pro-palestine protests scheduled for this weekend passing by it. Picture: NewsWire / John Appleyard

AEC ‘closely monitoring’ potential security measures at election

Australian Electoral Commissioner Jeff Pope has confirmed his agency is in discussions with police about the possibility of security measures at the next election as it is ‘very closely monitoring’ the environment when it comes to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia since October 7.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos December 12, 2024: Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones. The new News Media Bargaining Code is announced in Sydney by Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones and Communications Minister Michelle Rowland. Picture: NewsWire / John Appleyard

Jones fourth Labor minister to quit

Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has become the latest of a growing number of government ministers to quit politics, the 60-year-old making a shock announcement on Thursday.

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The Daily Telegraph Thursday 30 January 2025Maroubra school graffitiGraffiti removalists have painted over the anti-semetic graffiti on Mount Sinai College in Maroubra. Picture Thomas Lisson

‘Hunted down and locked up’: PM condemns latest anti-Semitic attack

Anthony Albanese has condemned a spate of anti-Semitic hate crimes which has culminated in the discovery of a caravan packed with explosives outside Sydney, declaring the perpetrators ‘would not succeed’ creating hate and division.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 21, 2024: Minister for the Environment and Water of Australia, Tanya Plibersek during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Plibersek’s nature positive reforms push back on

Labor is renewing its push to pass legislation establishing an environmental watchdog in the final sitting fortnight before a federal election is called.

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Expert seeks Magnitsky sanctions on research

A security expert has called for the nation’s sanctions regime to be reformed to protect against threats to un research from overseas actors, labelling the government’s current approach ‘lamentable’.

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Senator Jacqui Lambie has criticised Labor for appointing former Defence chief Angus Campbell as Australia's ambassador to the EU, NATO, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Lambie slams ex-ADF chief’s Brussels posting

Jacqui Lambie is threatening to roll out a nationwide ad campaign mobilising voters’ support on veterans’ welfare, as she criticises Angus Campbell’s top diplomatic posting.

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