Richard Ferguson

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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Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton speaks during House of Representatives Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, March 28, 2018. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

‘A disgrace to trivialise genocide’

Jewish groups condemn prominent lawyer Julian Burnside for sharing a picture on Twitter depicting Peter Dutton as a Nazi.

Richard Ferguson

The Nation

Homicide Squad hold a press conference to appeal for information following mistaken identity fatal shooting of Muhamed Yucel in Keysborough, Pic of Muhamed's father-Bekir, mother Fatma. May 2017. Sunday, March 25. 2018. Picture: David Crosling

Bikie assassin ‘shot wrong man’

The parents of a man murdered in a hit gone wrong beg Melburnians for more information on their son’s death.

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my wayWealth

Tax office calls in ethics doctor

The St James Ethics Centre’s Simon Longstaff has been appointed to lead an internal review of the tax office.

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State Politics

20/03/2018: Marlene Kairouz MP, Victoria's Local Government Minister. Stuart McEvoy for The Australian.

Leaders mull a bigger Victoria

Victoria’s population boom will be a focus this year with councils looking closely at the future of planning and legislative reforms.

Richard Ferguson

The Nation

Cobden fire zone. Newly wed Rebecca Jones sifts through the remains of her newly renovated home in pouring rain at Cobden. Picture: David Caird

Despair for devastated farmers

Victorian farmers are counting the cost of devastating grassfires that swept across the state’s southwest at the weekend.

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The Nation

Teen Vogue images of Yassmin Abdel-Magied. Source: Supplied

Yassmin wins free speech award

Abdel-Magied wins a free speech award from Melbourne group that has honoured the likes of Gillian Triggs and Waleed Aly.

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The Nation

‘Eat your hearts out’

Yassmin Abdel-Magied wins a prestigious prize for free speech for being a “role model” to young women, Muslims and migrants.

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The Nation

18/03/2018: Phil & Maree Beasley standing in the burnt out remains of their home in Terang, South West Victoria, after a bushfire swept through the area. Stuart McEvoy for The Australian.

Wedding guests ‘in line of fire’

A wedding party of 150 people came close to disaster as fires raged throughout the weekend in Victoria’s south-west.

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Business

Graham Raspass from SailTime Australia with members on one of SailTime Australia's boats at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Rushcutters Bay, Sydney.Pic by James Croucher

Subscribe to a yacht

Luxury cars and boats just one of the few things Australians could pay a monthly fee for in coming years.

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Body in bathtubThe Nation

Sarah Gatt died in April last year but was found nearly eight months later.

‘No one deserves to die like that’

A Melbourne woman whose body was found in her bathtub eight months after her violent death had become distant from her family.

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