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 Labor Party's Senator Sam Dastyari speaks to the media in Sydney on September 6, 2016, to make a public apology after asking a company with links to the Chinese Government to pay a 1,273 USD bill incurred by his office. Dastyari told reporters he made a mistake, but had not been asked to resign and would not tender his resignation. / AFP PHOTO / WILLIAM WEST

Why is he not dead?

Many Australian politicians have written candid books about their time in Canberra. Few have done it quite like Sam Dastyari.

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STREWTHStrewth

Singer Tina Turner in promotion for 1995 NSWRL season launch advertisement.

Yanks rock the NRL

A certain US super-diva was shaking up rugby league long before Macklemore arrived on the scene.

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STREWTHStrewth

AFL Cairns Mens Grand Final between Port Douglas Crocs and Manunda Hawks at Cazalys. Clive Palmer. PICTURE: STEWART McLEAN

Clive goes live on Facebook

We have more than a few questions for the former MP at tonight’s Facebook Live chat

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STREWTHStrewth

Labor frontbencher Stephen Jones, post op. Supplied

Pollies fly their footy colours

It’s that time of the year, and our political leaders have asked Strewth to pass on their tips for the grand finals.

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STREWTHStrewth

Cotchin’s law a winner

Victoria’s most senior law officers stepped out to plead in the defence of Richmond captain Trent Cotchin.

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Wealth

The only woman in the room …

Katie Hudson of Yarra Capital is a rare species — a female head of Australian equities research.

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STREWTHStrewth

Strewth: Quiet QT

Maybe we should have the leaders at the end of QT more often. Spice things up.

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STREWTHStrewth

Olivia Newton-John met with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and spoke about cancer research, in Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Gary Ramage

Greens footy gripes

Victorian Greens want politicians to pass on offers of free tickets to the footy grand final.

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STREWTHStrewth

More Mal time

As the days tick over Turnbull has reached a victorious bench mark, deafeating his arch-nemesis.

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STREWTHStrewth

PM gets wrong brotherhood

The PM left Question Time viewers across the nation aghast when he compared the Labor Party to the Muslim Brotherhood.

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