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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 Affairs

New Victorian Senator Kimberley Kitching delivers her first speech in the Senate Chamber tonight.

PM has ‘no respect’ for Pacific

PM “has absolved himself” of responsibility for Australia’s role in the Pacific by sending Malcolm Turnbull to the oceans forum.

Richard Ferguson

National Affairs

Daily Telegraph. Nauru. Nauru Island life. Pic Nathan Edwards

Nauru a ‘very pleasant island’

Tony Abbott has urged Scott Morrison to hold the line on asylum seekers, claiming Nauru “is no hellhole”.

Richard Ferguson

National Affairs

Liberal Party Spill, Parliament House, Canberra. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull gives a press conference, which was interrupted by his grandson Jack who stole the show, in the Prime Minister's Courtyard after a leadership vote in the Liberal Party which resulted in Scott Morrison being elected leader. Picture by Sean Davey.

Turnbull ‘likes’ latest Newspoll

Malcolm Turnbull has appeared to support the PM’s falling numbers as Scott Morrison brushes off negative polling.

Richard Ferguson and Greg Brown

ROYAL TOURThe Nation

Their Royal Highness the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Princess Meghan during their visit to Melbourne. Prince Harry and Meghan students from Albert Park Primary, Middle Park Primary and Elwood College along with volunteers from BeachPatrol, along South Melbourne Beach. Picture: Alex Coppel

Touchy subject but Harry and Meghan ensure charm offensive ends with clean sweep

Where royal practice, if not protocol, was to wave, to smile and shake hands, the Duke of Sussex is a hugger.

Chip Le Grand and Richard Ferguson

The Nation

ROYAL TOUR - Prince Harry and Megan on South Melbourne Beach.Picture Jay Town

What’s on for royals tomorrow?

The royals met a rapturous Melbourne welcome with hugs and a handpass, then hopped on a tram to the beach | WATCH

Richard Ferguson, Tessa Akerman and Debbie Schipp

National Affairs

Prime Minister Scott Morrison addresses the Melbourne Institute Economic and Social Outlook Conference in Melbourne, Thursday, October 11, 2018. (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING

China’s verdict on Morrison

Outlook Conference: China sees the Morrison government as a “placeholder administration”, says Lowy Institute’s Richard McGregor.

Richard Ferguson

Business

11/10/2018: Labor Leader Bill Shorten arrives at the evening session of the Economic & Social Future Outlook Conference in Melbourne. Stuart McEvoy/The Australian.

‘This is not about envy’

Outlook Conference 2018: Bill Shorten denies he is waging class warfare, reaffirming his commitments to higher taxes for the rich.

Rick Morton and Richard Ferguson

State of disorderThe Nation

Images from Alan Luy's facebook page of youths near Banjo Paterson Park in Lynbrook

Youths terrorise commuters

Up to 100 youths of African appearance reportedly terrified train commuters in Melbourne’s southeast overnight.

Richard Ferguson

The Nation

Supplied photo of Eurydice Dixon, 19, who was killed in Princes Park in Carlton North.

Alleged Dixon killer in court

James Todd is accused of killing Melbourne comedian Eurydice Dixon. Today he appeared in court for the first time since he was remanded.

Richard Ferguson

INQUIRERInquirer

WARNING NO NEWS.COM.AU, AUSTRALIAN, SKY NEWS and PERTH NOW WARNING CONTACT HERALD SUN PIC DESK 92921895 BEFORE USE WARNING NOT FOR ONLINE WITHOUT CLEARANCE WARNING Bhutan 2018. 14 month old conjoined twins Nima and Dawa are to be flown to Australia to have life saving surgery, thanks to The Children First Foundation, and the Royal Children's Hospital. Twins Nima and Dawa in the hospital ward they've spent most of their lives in, the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital in Thimphu, Bhutan. Picture: Alex Coppel

LIFETIME BOND IN SEPARATION

Conjoined twins Nima and Dawa Pelden’s family hopes they will be among the 350 twins saved in Australia.

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