Our Team

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.

@RichAFerguson

Richard Ferguson

Latest

ExclusiveNational Security

Tasmanian economist Saul Eslake Picture: LUKE BOWDEN

Sorry for Border Force Nazi line

High-profile economist Saul Eslake apologises to the Jewish community for comparing new Border Force powers to the Gestapo.

Richard Ferguson

The Nation

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 28: Michael Green, CEO, Melbourne Stadiums Limited (L) and Acting Commander David Clayton, North West Metro Region, speak to the media during a press conference at Etihad Stadium on May 28, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. A brawl at Etihad Stadium on Friday night followed from earlier incidents involving AFL fans. (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images)

Life bans for brawling fans

Footy fans could be banned from pubs and clubs for up to two years in light of a Victoria Police crackdown on bad behaviour.

Richard Ferguson

The Nation

Bloody brawl at Etihad Stadium in Medallion Club after COllingwood V Western Bulldogs May 25. Picture: 9 News

Footy fans face two-year pub ban

Drunken fans could be banned from licensed premises for up to two years as police crack down on brawls after AFL matches.

Richard Ferguson

Wealth

24/05/2018 Karen McLeod, Ethical Investment Advisers, at her office in Bulimba, Brisbane. Richard Whitfield/The Australian

Taking issue with investment

Karen McLeod, a one-time planner at NAB’s Godfrey Pembroke division, is now in a very different job as an adviser at Ethicial Investment Advisors.

Richard Ferguson

The Nation

Former Essendon player and AFL coach Mark Thompson leaves the Melbourne Magistrate Court in Melbourne, Friday, May 25, 2018. AFL great Mark

Thompson drug case adjourned

Mark Thompson has had his drugs changes case adjourned for another month in the Melbourne’s Magistrates Court.

Richard Ferguson

State Politics

Swearing in ceremony of Melbourne's new Lord Mayor Sally Capp at Melbourne's Town Hall. Picture : Ian Currie

Sally Capp sworn in as Lord Mayor

Sally Capp became the third woman, and the first directly elected woman, to hold Melbourne’s lord mayoral position yesterday.

Richard Ferguson

National Affairs

Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke leaves the Langham Hotel in Melbourne. Picture: Mark Stewart

PM doing his best for us: Hawke

Malcolm Turnbull is ‘doing his very best’ to ensure a Labor victory at the next election, Bob Hawke said yesterday.

Richard Ferguson

The Nation

Turnbull a Labor asset: Hawke

Malcolm Turnbull is ‘doing his very best’ to ensure a Labor victory at the next election, former PM Bob Hawke says.

Richard Ferguson

The Nation

Sally Capp reacts after she is sworn in as Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne at Melbourne Town Hall in Melbourne, Thursday, May 24, 2018. Capp is the first directly elected female Lord Mayor of Melbourne. (AAP Image/Julian Smith) NO ARCHIVING

‘I’ve been preparing all my life’

Melbourne’s new Lord Mayor Sally Capp has officially taken the top job, three months after Robert Doyle quit amid sexual harassment allegations.

Richard Ferguson

The Nation

Victoria Police are stepping up their search for two armed robbers who held up a Williamstown liquor store up at gun point in December 23 last year.

Police turn up heat on robbers

Victoria Police say two armed robbers on the run for nearly six months could kill someone if they strike again.

Richard Ferguson

Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/richard-ferguson/page/192