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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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Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during the announcement of stage 3 of the Gold Coast light rail on the Gold Coast, Monday, November 5, 2018. The light rail line will be extended from Broadbeach South to Burleigh Heads. (AAP Image/Tim Marsden) NO ARCHIVING

‘No plan for dual election’

Scott Morrison has shot down reports that he is considering holding hold two federal elections next year.

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

Phelps ‘won’t change a thing’

Scott Morrison says his government will “continue to function” now he has officially fallen into minority government.

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Anzac day service at Mt Eliza. Chris Crewther MP.Picture by Wayne Taylor 25th April 2018.

PM ready to fight new s44 claim

Scott Morrison is unconcerned over section 44 questions relating to marginal Liberal seat MP Chris Crewther.

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Katter'€™s Australian Party Member for Kennedy Bob Katter speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, October 25, 2018. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Katter won’t back MP referral

Bob Katter won’t vote to send Liberal MP Chris Crewther to the High Court giving the PM enough votes to block any Labor push.

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Bali rowNational Affairs

Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull are at war.

PM forced to clarify Turnbull role

Scott Morrison has clarified that Malcolm Turnbull was approved to discuss the Israeli embassy after a lashing from the ex-PM.

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Immigration

Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, October 15, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Nauru kids ‘won’t stay’ here

Peter Dutton says asylum seeker children brought to Australia will not stay permanently and won’t confirm if parents will come too.

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10/8/2018: Australias most decorated Afghanistan veteran Ben Roberts-Smith with his wife Emma, on the Sunshine Coast . Ben Roberts-Smith has been accused of violence against his wife and others, which he strongly denies, and is taking legal action. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

VC accusers ‘show no values’

Scott Morrison says he’s disappointed at VC winner Ben Roberts-Smith’s treatment by the media and, allegedly, former colleagues.

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Owler eligibility in question

Brian Owler vows to continue working as a doctor but won’t release the legal advice he claims shows he’s eligible to sit in parliament.

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Cricket

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce leaves after Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, October 25, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Joyce slams cricket ‘pile on’

Barnaby Joyce has lashed Malcolm Turnbull for denouncing ball-tampering players, as the ex-PM attempted to win votes.

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Security guards from a building site reach out to touch passing sheep as they are driven through central Madrid, Spain, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018. Shepherds guided sheep through the Madrid streets in defence of ancient grazing and migration rights increasingly threatened by urban sprawl and modern agricultural practices. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Welfare division resurrected

An animal welfare branch shut down by Barnaby Joyce will be resurrected under sweeping changes to the live exports industry.

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