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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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National Security

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is seen at the Business Council of Australia 2018 Annual Dinner, Sydney, Wednesday, November 21, 2018. (AAP Image/Brendan Esposito) NO ARCHIVING

PM’s tough new terror laws

Tough new terror laws to strip citizenship from anyone convicted on any terrorism offence will be taken to parliament in the next fortnight.

Richard Ferguson

National Affairs

Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten speaks to the media during a press conference with Shadow Attorney General Mark Dreyfus at the Commonwealth Treasury Office in Melbourne, Monday, November 19, 2018. (AAP Image/Stefan Postles) NO ARCHIVING

Labor policy dismissed as ‘Pink Batt-eries’

Slamming Bill Shorten’s home battery plan, the PM reminded people what happened “last time Labor tried to put something in your house”.

Richard Ferguson and SASCHA O’SULLIVAN

National Affairs

Tony Abbott in Question Time in the House of Representatives Chamber, at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym

‘I’m hoping for Malcolm’s help’

Tony Abbott says he hopes Malcolm Turnbull will give him a hand in retaining his Warringah seat at the next election.

Richard Ferguson and Remy Varga

ExclusiveImmigration

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

Immigration

Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten is seen at the state funeral for Sisto Malaspina at St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne, Tuesday, November 20, 2018. Sisto Malaspina, co-owner of Pellegrini's Espresso Bar, was killed on Friday 9 November after he was attacked by a lone terrorist who set his car alight in Bourke Street and started stabbing passers-by. Two other men were injured. Police shot the attacker at the scene and he later died in hospital. (AAP Image/Daniel Pockett) NO ARCHIVING

UN migration pact ‘not big issue’

Bill Shorten says he is “not fussed” about signing the UN migration compact, despite a senior frontbencher criticising the PM’s decision to drop out.

Simon Benson 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

APEC SUMMITForeign Affairs

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison gives Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill a Wallabies rugby union jersey at a barbeque for Pacific Islands leaders at the Australian High Commission after the 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Sunday, November 18, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Trump ‘should have attended’

Bill Shorten says Scott Morrison is “in a world of denial” calling the summit a success.

Ben Packham and Richard Ferguson

National Affairs

Tony Abbott in Question Time in the House of Representatives Chamber at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Move our embassy: Abbott

Tony Abbott calls on Scott Morrison to move Australia’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and defy pressure from major Muslim neighbours.

Richard Ferguson

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