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Richard FergusonNational Chief of Staff

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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Wayne Swan's Sydney launch. Source: Kristina Kenneally's Twitter page

Where’s Dasher?

Wayne Swan had a big launch for his Labor Party presidency bid but one man was noticeably missing from the party.

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Police keen to extradite pedophile

Victoria and NT police want to question Christopher John Gott if he is found to be medically fit by doctors in Rio de Janeiro.

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Yassmin Abdel-Magied a show about Australia's hijab fashion scene. The show, to be aired on ABC iView on May 1, had its trailer released yesterday showing Abdel-Magied in a variety of Islamic headwear. Twitter

ABC hijab fashion show furore

Cory Bernardi has taken a swipe at ABC’s new program and Eric Abetz has accused the ABC of ‘championing an oppressive symbol’.

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Britain's Prince Charles (2nd R) and Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop (C) visit a market house with traditional baskets and carvings in Port Vila on April 7, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Ben BOHANE

Julie in Royal company

Prince Charles and Julie Bishop flew off to Vanuatu this weekend, far away from the Games and leadership speculation.

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My WayWealth

03/04/2018 Six park head of business development and former AFL player Ted Richards in his Melbourne office.Picture David Geraghty / The Australian.

Robo-advice way of the future

Former Sydney Swans defender Ted Richards is now kicking goals at Six Park.

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Shorten’s gift

Bill Shorten brought a copy of his wife’s new cookbook to a hospital tour after a special request.

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2/4/18 Holocaust survivor Moshe Fiszman grew up in Poland and survived both the Burkenau and Dachau death camps, pictured at his home in Caulfield. Julian Burnside is meeting with the Holocaust survivor after the prominent barrister got a massive backlash over a tweet linking Peter Dutton to Nazis. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Burnside to meet Holocaust survivor

Julian Burnside will meet Holocaust survivors in response to his retweet of an image of Peter Dutton dressed as a Nazi.

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Chloe's mother, Quentin Bryce, watches on at the launch of Chloe's cookbook, The Secret Ingredient, in Melbourne, Monday, April 2, 2018. (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING

Republican Bill

Bill Shorten has some uncompromising advice for Prince Charles.

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Prominent refugee advocate, Australian barrister Julian Burnside. Picture: Peter Ristevski

‘I did not mention the Holocaust’

Julian Burnside has agreed to meet with Holocaust survivors, but says he doesn’t regret sharing a Peter Dutton-Nazi photo.

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QC Julian Burnside and Frank Grima leaving the Melbourne Magistrate's Court after faceing of with Wyndham City Council who charged Grima with carrying out works without a permit. He fixed pot holes and installed a gate to stop hoons dumping cars in Port Phillip Bay. He's now facing bankruptcy, unless Julian Burnside QC, who has taken on his case pro bono, can pull off a win. ID Confirmed by Wayne Flower. Picture: Eugene Hyland

Nazi tweet ‘profoundly offensive’

Julian Burnside condemned by Jewish groups for sharing a picture depicting Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton as a Nazi.

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