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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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Uni stops China film after diplomat query

The university screening of an anti-Chinese Communist Party film was cancelled shortly after Chinese diplomats sought ‘feedback’.

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National Affairs

Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, November 28, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Shorten tests his numbers

PoliticsNow: Bill Shorten moved to suspend standing orders, the first big test of the government’s numbers on the floor of parliament.

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National Affairs

Kerryn Phelps has confirmed talks with Malcolm Turnbull.

Phelps admits Turnbull staff help

Independent MP Kerryn Phelps confirms discussions with former PM Malcolm Turnbull and that more than one of his staff had assisted her.

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National Affairs

Kerryn Phelps delivering her Maiden Speech in the House of Representatives Chamber in Parliament House, Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Phelps’s dig at ‘shabby’ PM

Independent MP Kerryn Phelps says Scott Morrison was “pretty shabby and disrespectful” for walking out of her maiden speech.

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National Affairs

Former Liberal, now independent member for Chisholm Julia Banks and Independent Member for Indi Cathy McGowan during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, November 28, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

McGowan weighs referrals

PoliticsNow: The independent MP has not ruled out supporting more referrals of Coalition, Labor or crossbench MPs to the High Court.

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National Affairs

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 27: Senator Richard Di Natale speaks at a press conference earlier in the day before being suspended from the Senate at Parliament House on November 27, 2018 in Canberra, Australia. Di Natale was suspended after he called Barry O'Sullivan 'a pig' for his comments directed towards fellow senator Sarah Hanson-Young. (Photo by Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images)

Reforms after Hanson-Young slur

The Senate will make changes to its standards after sexist slurs were slung at Sarah Hanson-Young, Mathias Cormann says.

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National Affairs

Banks owes the Liberal Party: Howard

PoliticsNow: John Howard scolded Julia Banks on the 7.30 Report this evening following her resignation from the Liberal Party.

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National Affairs

PM Scott Morrison during Question Time in the House of Representatives Chamber, Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

‘This is between me and you’

PoliticsNow | The PM targets Bill Shorten’s lack of appeal with voters, saying he can’t ride the coat-tails of popular Premiers.

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National Affairs

Bob Katter speaking at a press conference on Senator Fraser Anning at Parliament House in Canberra.

Federal ICAC chances slide as Katter wavers

The chances of parliament backing a federal anti-corruption watchdog are declining.

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National Affairs

Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg speaks at a doorstop during a visit to Riverside Girls High School in Sydney, Tuesday, November 13, 2018. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

Brace for federal backlash

ALP warns Victorian landslide is just the start. It may deliver four federal seats and put Shorten in The Lodge, frontbencher says.

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