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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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Owner Melanie Bicket (25) outside her Elana Apartment Block in Canberra.Picture: Ray Strange

From dream home to nightmare

The residents of Elara Apartments know what the people who live in Sydney’s Opal Tower are in store for.

Richard Ferguson

exclusiveNational Affairs

Macquarie MP Susan Templeman with the Senior Winner George Tillett at the 2018 NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards at Castle Hill RSL on Friday September 28th. Volunteers from across the Hornsby and North Western Sydney region were recognised at a special ceremony in Castle Hill RSL, where the regional winners were announced. (AAP IMAGE / Troy Snook)

MPs’ publicity spree tops $2m

Coalition MPs in battleground seats have ramped up communications spending ahead of next year’s election.

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Kerryn Phelps at the National Press Club in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Phelps quiet on rental returns

Independent MP Kerryn Phelps has listed two medical clinics and a property portfolio on her first register of member’s interests.

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James Craig is CEO of Craigs Ballistics - a Gold Coast defence exporter that will benefit from a new government grants scheme to build our arms exports industry. Photographed with a Military Load Bearing Vest that holds Composite Body Armour. Also with a Tactical Police Shield. Photography : Russell Shakespeare

Defence industry has new weapon

Defence firms will receive grants worth up to $4.1m as part of a push to move Australia into the top-10 global defence exporters.

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ExclusiveNational Affairs

Former PM Malcolm Turnbull during a summer party at the Lodge.

ScoMo dumps summer shindig

Scott Morrison is cancelling a $25,000-plus annual summer party for MPs and their families on the grounds of fiscal restraint.

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National Affairs

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 16: Labor leader Bill Shorten and his wife Chloe arrive at the 2018 ALP National Conference on December 16, 2018 in Adelaide, Australia. It is the Labor Party's 48th Ânational conference. (Photo by Mark Brake/Getty Images)

Leaders choose charity over unseasonal rivalry Leaders choose charity over unseasonal rivalry

Bill Shorten put his first lady front and centre of his Christmas message as Scott Morrison asked for more rain.

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CHRISTMAS MESSAGESNational Affairs

Prime Minister Scott Morrison wishes for rain during his Christmas message to Australians. Picture: Twitter

‘Only present we want is rain’

Scott Morrison uses his Christmas message to reach out to Australians in drought-stricken communities.

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National Affairs

Australian Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack reacts during House of Representatives Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, October 23, 2018. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

‘No case to answer’ on MP open to blackmail

Acting PM says a federal police investigation into a government MP being open to blackmail ‘found no case to answer’.

Richard Ferguson

State Politics

NSW Energy Minister Don Harwin speaks to the media during a press conference in Adelaide, Wednesday, December 19, 2018. Energy ministers from across Australia met in Adelaide today to discuss lowering power prices. (AAP Image/Kelly Barnes) NO ARCHIVING

Harwin defends covering arts

Don Harwin says there are simply more arts organisations than there are energy companies.

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National Affairs

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is seen on an Australian Air Force plane during a visit to Baghdad Airbase in Iraq, Wednesday, December 19, 2018. (AAP Image/David Mariuz) NO ARCHIVING

ScoMo caps off year with rally call to troops

Scott Morrison has dropped in on Australian troops in his first visit to the Middle East since he took power in August.

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