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Richard Ferguson is the National Chief of Staff for The Australian. Since joining the newspaper in 2016, he has been a property reporter, a Melbourne reporter, and regularly penned Cut and Paste and Strewth. Richard – winner of the 2018 News Award Young Journalist of the Year – has covered the 2016, 2019 and 2022 federal polls, the Covid-19 pandemic, and he was on the ground in London for Brexit and Boris Johnson’s 2019 UK election victory.

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Immigration

Shorten, Dutton clash on borders

Bill Shorten has delivered an extraordinary attack on Peter Dutton, as Labor’s border policy comes under intense scrutiny.

Richard Ferguson

National Affairs

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison during a press conference at the Bowali Visitor Centre, Jabiru in the Northern Territory on Sunday, January 13, 2019. The federal government will invest $216 million in the Northern Territory's Kakadu National Park to improve road access and tourist facilities. (AAP Image/ Michael Franchi) NO ARCHIVING

PM hits out at ‘inherited’ issue

Scott Morrison says he “inherited” a decade-low number of female MPs, as the Libs continues to wrestle with the issue.

Richard Ferguson

National Affairs

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (centre) with Senator Nigel Scullion, and CLP candidate Jacinta Price during a press conference at the Bowali Visitor Centre, Jabiru in the Northern Territory on Sunday, January 13, 2019. The federal government will invest $216 million in the Northern Territory's Kakadu National Park to improve road access and tourist facilities. (AAP Image/ Michael Franchi) NO ARCHIVING

Morrison rules out early election

Scott Morrison has ruled out an early March election as the political year gets off to a headstart after the summer break.

Richard Ferguson

National Affairs

09/01/2019: (R-L) Monica Caruana and Jed Maher are two 23-year-olds who, unlike many of their peers, are very active in maintaining a healthy super fund.

Coalition floats about-face on funds

Treasurer backs a shift in Coalition policy to back a ‘best in show’ list of the nation’s top super funds.

Ben Packham and Richard Ferguson

Industrial Relations

23/10/2018: Australian Council of Trade Unions President Michele O'Neil (R) has joined thousands of workers on the streets in the Sydney leg of nationwide ACTU Change the Rules rally. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Unions criticise proposal to break IR-funds link

Unions have branded a proposal to break the link between the super and industrial relations systems as ‘ideological fanaticism’.

Richard Ferguson and Ben Packham

Best-in-showNational Affairs

*Fairfax Pool Images* The Royal Commission into the Financial Services Industry. 12 February 2018. The Age News. Photo: Eddie Jim. ( The Commissioner Kenneth Hayne )

Super rethink ‘totally unsuitable’

ACTU accuses Productivity Commission of “ideological fanaticism,” says best-in-show would hand “a huge amount of power” to financial regulators

Richard Ferguson

Financial Services

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg during an interview with the Australian newspaper after the release of the mid-year economic and fiscal outlook (MYEFO) at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Coalition’s super proposal rethink

The Treasurer says there is “merit” in a best-in-show proposal, at odds with past Coalition comments.

Richard Ferguson

National Affairs

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg after an interview with the Australian newspaper after the release of the mid-year economic and fiscal outlook (MYEFO) at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Frydenberg: Surplus before poll

Despite doubts cast by Fitch Solutions on surplus hopes, Treasurer insists he’ll deliver surplus budget before election.

Richard Ferguson

Immigration

TOPSHOT - This screen grab from a video released to AFPTV via the Twitter account of Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun on January 7, 2019 shows a still of Qunun speaking in Bangkok on January 7. - Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun held at Bangkok airport said she would be killed if she was repatriated by Thai immigration officials, who confirmed the 18-year-old was denied entry to the country on January 6. Qunun told AFP she was stopped by Saudi and Kuwaiti officials when she arrived in Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok and her travel document was forcibly taken from her, a claim backed by Human Rights Watch. (Photo by Handout / Courtesy of Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun / AFP) / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

‘No special’ deal for Saudi girl

Saudi Arabian asylum-seeker Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun will receive ‘no special treatment’ from Australia, says Peter Dutton.

Richard Ferguson

National Affairs

Scott Morrison's shoes were the subject of some poor Photoshopping.

‘I didn’t ask for the shoeshine’

The PM says his daggy old trainers are just fine with him after his department was caught out photoshopping his footwear for an official photo.

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