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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Sport Minister John Eren at a sports grant announcement at John Cain Memorial Park on Wednesday, January 31, 2018, in Thornbury, Victoria, Australia.Picture: Hamish Blair

Minister backtracks on Anzac Day

Victorian minister says the state could commemorate Aboriginal warriors on Anzac Day if the RSL gives its backing.

Richard Ferguson

The Nation

Richard Deng from the South Sudanese Community Association of Victoria, speaking about the importance of not generalizing when talking about race, racial profiling by police and what can be done to help young African kids committing crimes. Richard pictured in the cityPicture: Mark Wilson

Deport PM, says Sudanese leader

A South Sudanese community figure has warned the Liberal Party of political retribution over Melbourne’s youth crime crisis.

Richard Ferguson

The Nation

Julie Bishop. Air Asia international flights announcement at Avalon Airport. Picture: Alan Barber

Bishop stands up for Anzac Day

Victoria’s Veterans Affairs Minister has not completely ruled out changes to Anzac Day that seek to include Aboriginal warriors.

Richard Ferguson

State Politics

Archbishop Philip Freier who leads the Anglicans in Australia and is celebrating 10 years in the top job. Picture: Ellen Smith

Cleric blasts ‘racist’ gangs rhetoric

Australia’s highest ranking Anglican has blasted politicians and the media over Melbourne’s African gang crisis.

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ExclusiveNational Affairs

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten addressing the National Press Club in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Shorten ‘carbon copy’ of Corbyn

Mathias Cormann has accused Bill Shorten of plagiarising the ‘populist playbook’ of UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Greg Brown and Richard Ferguson

State Politics

31/01/2018 Screengrab from a TV Ad by The Victorian Multiuculturual Commission and Brotherhood of St Laurence asking people to be "king to South Sudanese kids".

Sudanese kids need support

A new advertisement aims to remind Victorians that innocent children should not be blamed for the actions of others.

Richard Ferguson

exclusiveEconomics

30/01/2018 Emma Barlow outside her office in Ringwood Victoria. She is a local area coordinator for Latrobe Community Health Service, a NDIS provider.Picture David Geraghty / The Australian.

Jobs driven by NDIS billions

The $22bn taxpayer-funded NDIS was responsible for as many as 52,000 of the new jobs created last year, new analysis finds.

Adam Creighton and Richard Ferguson

The Nation

15/01/2018 Tarneen Onus-Williams in Lincoln Square Carlton. She's an organiser with Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, arranging anti-Australia Day protest next week in Melbourne. They're expecting 10,000-odd, calling for Australia Day to be completely abolished.Picture David Geraghty / The Australian.

Oxfam moves away from activist

A major charity employing an Aboriginal activist rejects her incendiary comments on Australia Day.

Richard Ferguson

Indigenous

26/01/2018: Tarneen Onus-Williams, organiser with Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR), at an Invasion Day rally in Melbourne on Australia Day saying "F..k Australia, I hope it f..king burns to the ground.’’ Source: Channel 7

‘Burn this rotten settler colony’

The radical Aboriginal group behind Melbourne’s Invasion Day rally has doubled down on its calls to “abolish Australia”.

Richard Ferguson

The Nation

An image from the I AM HARDSTYLE Facebook page from their Melbourne show on Australia Day with the caption "Thank you Melbourne for a massive first edition of I AM HARDSTYLE Australia!"

Police rule out mass overdose probe

A mass overdose on ‘Dr Death’ at a Melbourne dance rave leads to calls for clearer warnings when toxic batches hit the streets.

Richard Ferguson

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