Richard Ferguson

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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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 13: Federal Opposition leader Bill Shorten MP speaks to the media during an Essendon Bombers AFL media opportunity on November 13, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. Federal Opposition leader Bill Shorten MP commited $4 million to support the second stage of development for the Bombers and Australian Paralympic Committee's home base, The Hangar, if elected at the next Federal Election. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Migration backlash a worry for Shorten

Bill Shorten is facing pressure from Labor’s left after Australia’s rejection of the UN global compact for migration.

Rosie Lewis and Richard Ferguson

Legal Affairs

Five week old sleeping boy and girl fraternal twin newborn babies. They are wearing crocheted pink and blue striped hats.

Child’s gender record now opt-in

Scott Morrison blasts new Tasmanian laws removing gender for birth certificates and calls on Bill Shorten to commit to “outlaw’ such practises.

MATTHEW DENHOLM and Richard Ferguson

TERROR RAIDSThe Nation

Terror arrests at the AFP headquarters.Picture: Jay Town

Recordings key to evidence

It will take prosecutors 325 days to listen to recordings of the three men charged in Melbourne with planning a terror attack, a court has heard.

Tessa Akerman, Richard Ferguson and David King

Immigration

PM Scott Morrison at the 2018 Bradfield Oration held at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney.Picture: Christian Gilles

PM ‘expects’ migrant cap to be cut by 30,000

Scott Morrison says he “expects’’ the cap on Australia’s migration intake to be slashed by 30,000.

ELIAS VISONTAY and Richard Ferguson

The Nation

Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits Pellegriniâ€™s Espresso Bar . Picture : Jake Nowakowski

Muslims must stop the ‘wolves’

Scott Morrison has used the reopening of Pellegrini’s espresso bar to dismiss an Islamic leader’s claim he is scapegoating Muslims.

Rachel Baxendale and Richard Ferguson

National Affairs

Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek speaks to students at Whittington Primary School after they sang the song I am Australian and brought her to tears. Plibersek was in Geelong on Thursday to announce Federal Labor pledge to splash $22 million on Geelong schools over three years. Picture: Alan Barber

Push for gay students inquiry

A bill to stop discrimination against gay students will hit parliament by the end of the month, as Labor pushes for a Senate inquiry.

Richard Ferguson

National Affairs

11/10/18 Former treasurer Peter Costello (ECG Financial) during the Australian's outlook conference at the Grand Hyatt. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Costello stays at Future Fund

Former treasurer Peter Costello has been reappointed to run the $130 billion Future Fund for another five years.

Simon Benson and Richard Ferguson

Armistice DayNews

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 11: Australian Prime Minster Scott Morrison and the National President of the War Widows' Guild Of Australia Meg Green (R) lay a wreath during the Remembrance Day Service at the Australian War Memorial on November 11, 2018 in Canberra, Australia. Remembrance Day 2018 marks the centenary anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War on 11 November 1918. Almost 62,000 Australians died fighting in four years of global conflict. On this day Australians observe one minute's silence at 11 am to honour those who have served and those who have died in war and on peacekeeping and humanitarian operations. (Photo by Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images)

‘Belief in country over self’

PM leads Remembrance Day commemorations in Canberra as nation reflects on 100th anniversary of the end of WWI.

Richard Ferguson

National Affairs

NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley speaks to the media at Parliament House in Sydney, Thursday, November 8, 2018. NSW Labor leader Luke Foley has resigned but denies accusations made by an ABC journalist that he groped her at a Christmas function in 2016. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

Foley to quit politics

Former NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley has written to Labor HQ to inform them he won’t recontest his seat next year.

ANDREW CLENNELL and Richard Ferguson

State Politics

8/11/18: Luke Foley holds a press conference to announce that he will resign as leader of the opposition and go to the backbench because of harassment allegations by an ABC journalist. John Feder/The Australian.

‘Tough for Foley to stay on’

Luke Foley will find it “very tough” to pursue a defamation case and stay on in state politics, a leading federal Labor MP says.

Andrew Clennell and Richard Ferguson

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