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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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Liberal Democratic Party Senator David Leyonhjelm speaks to media at the Roma Mitchell Commonwealth Law Courts in Adelaide, Thursday September 20, 2018. (AAP Image/Mark Brake) NO ARCHIVING

Anning is no Nazi or anti-Semite: senator

Senator David Leyonhjelm has defended Fraser Anning, declaring the independent senator is not “anti-Semitic or a Nazi’’.

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Tony Abbott with Craig Kelly during Question Time in the House of Representatives in Parliament House Canberra. Picture Gary Ramage

Police minister slams Abbott

The Victorian Police Minister has defended the force after Tony Abbott hit out at the state’s “kid-glove policing” approach.

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Queensland Senator Fraser Anning is being criticised for attending rally's in St Kilda, Melbourne over the weekend and his is pictured outside Waterfront Place in the Brisbane CBD, Brisbane Monday 7th January 2019 Picture AAP/David Clark

Morrison lashes ‘repeat offender’

Scott Morrison has labelled independent senator Fraser Anning a ‘repeat offender’ when it comes to racism.

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Social media picture posted on Senator Fraser Anning's facebook page showing FraserAnning (C) with Thom Tran (left), a St Kilda local who has previously tried to organise an anti-African rally, and an unidentified man (right) . Caption reads 'Great to see the turnout at St Kilda today! The Vietnamese community has been attacked time and time again by the African Gangs so it was good to see them turn up in protest of the Victorian Government. Thanks to all who came and organised it.'https://www.facebook.com/senatorfraseranning/photos/a.436595833422783/633040493778315/?type=3&theater

Far-right figurehead a real Senate high-flyer

Fraser Anning has quickly become the senate crossbench’s highest flyer, billing taxpayers for attending far-right events.

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RALLY SENATORNational Affairs

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Independent Senator Fraser Anning.

‘Australians are not anti-migrant, racist’

Scott Morrison labels independent Senator Fraser Anning a ‘repeat offender’, slamming his attendance at far-right rally.

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Job ID PD481850. Mid Winter Ball arrivals, Anthony Albanese and wife Carmel Tebbutt . Press Gallery members along with politicians and their partners arrived for the 2015 Mid winter ball in the Great Hall in Parliament House in Canberra. Pic by Gary Ramage

Albanese splits with Tebbutt

Anthony Albanese has split up with his partner, former NSW deputy premier Carmel Tebbutt.

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6th January 2019Senator Fraser Anning photographed in Brisbane.Photo: Glenn Hunt / The Australian

Anning ‘no friend of Jews’

Melbourne Jewish leader Dvir Abramovich has blasted Fraser Anning’s claims he is a “friend of the Jewish community”

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Far right protestNational Affairs

Police on standby on St Kilda foreshore Melbourne, Saturday, January 5, 2019. Scores of police are out in force at a popular Melbourne beach searching for weapons as both far-right and far-left groups plan to gather (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING

Rally Nazi salutes ‘abhorrent’

Josh Frydenberg, the nation’s most prominent Jewish MP. says Nazi views at yesterday’s rally ‘have no place in Australia today’

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St Kilda rallyThe Nation

A supplied image obtained on Saturday, January 5, 2019, of Independent Senator Fraser Anning attending a protest organised by far-right activist Neil Erikson, at St Kilda beach, Melbourne, Saturday, January 5, 2018. Scores of police are out in force at a popular Melbourne beach searching for weapons as both far-right and far-left groups plan to gather. (AAP Image/Kenji Wardenclyffe / Wardenclyffe Photography) NO ARCHIVING

Anning billed taxpayers to attend rally

Fraser Anning says he billed taxpayers for flights and a Comcar ride to attend yesterday’s far-right rally in Melbourne.

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The Townsville Intercultural Centre hosted the inaugural Refugee Forum during the International Unity in Diversity Conference at Rydges Southbank. Queensland Senator the Hon Claire Moore was the key note speaker. Key note speaker Queensland Senator the Hon Claire Moore.

Piggyback mail-outs ‘don’t pass the pub test’

Warren Entsch has slammed senator Claire Moore’s distribution of an ALP candidate’s election material using taxpayer funds.

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