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Sarah Ison is a political reporter in The Australian’s Canberra press gallery bureau, where she covers a range of rounds from higher education to social affairs. Sarah was a federal political reporter with The West Australian’s Canberra team between 2019 and 2021, before which she worked in the masthead’s Perth newsroom. Sarah made her start in regional journalism at the Busselton-Dunsborough Times in 2017.

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Climate changePolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - February 5, 2025: Greens Leader Adam Bandt and Senator David Shoebridge hold a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Renewables-only sceptics putting lives at risk: Bandt

Adam Bandt has lashed the food distributors of Australia for questioning Labor’s renewables-only strategy and claimed they are ‘putting Australian lives at threat’.

Sarah Ison and Rhiannon Down

Hospital fundingHealth

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - February 5, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler hold a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Hopes for five-year deal dead: premiers

Anthony Albanese announces $1.7bn as an interim funding measure for public hospitals as his government fails to reach agreement with states before the WA election being called.

Sarah Ison and Penny Timms

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

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Coalition pushed on childcare, ALP on super

The Coalition is being urged by peak farmer groups and parenting bodies to release its childcare package.

Sarah Ison

Politics NowPolitics

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA- NewsWire Photos JANUARY 23, 2025: Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan holds a press conference at a housing development site in Werribee to talk about local road upgrades. NewsWire/ David Crosling

Police boost urged in Melbourne’s biggest Jewish district

Five current and former mayors have urged Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan to permanently boost the police presence in Glen Eira, saying a long-term solution is needed to ensure the community’s safety after a spate of anti-Semitic attacks.

Mohammad Alfares, Sarah Ison and Noah Yim

Election 2025Nation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos AUGUST 8, 2024: L to R: Olivia Downey-Edmunds -5, Noah Alameddine - 4, , Ned Walker -5 and Walter Boehm -4 as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shows them a picture of his son and dog. Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, with Minister for Education, Jason Clare, and the Minister for Early Childhood Education and Youth, Dr Anne Aly at the is in Sydney today with the Minister for Education, Jason Clare, and the Minister for Early Childhood Education and Youth, Dr Anne Aly at the Styles Street Children's Community Long Day Care Centre in Leichhardt. The Government announced a 15% pay rise for Early Childhood Educators. Picture: NewsWire / John Appleyard

Three-day childcare guarantee: Labor’s policy explained

The measure was originally intended to be an election promise but by introducing the legislation in what could be the final sitting weeks before the election, the government looks to be picking a fight with the Coalition over the issue.

Sarah Ison

ChangesPolitics

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Greens threaten childcare leverage

Labor would be pushed to spend millions more in childcare support should it face a hung parliament, as the Greens promise to pressure Anthony Albanese.

Sarah Ison

ExclusivePolitics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos December 12, 2024: Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones. The new News Media Bargaining Code is announced in Sydney by Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones and Communications Minister Michelle Rowland. Picture: NewsWire / John Appleyard

Payday super ‘timeline not achievable’

COSBOA says Labor’s payday super policy is a disaster waiting to happen and the cost to employers to change and adapt ‘will be immense’.

Sarah Ison

Politics NowPolitics

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles speaks during a joint press conference with the US Defense Secretary and the British Defense Secretary during the AUKUS Defense Ministerial Meeting in Mountain View, California, on December 1, 2023. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP)

Marles heads to Washington to bolster US relations

Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles will travel to the US this week to meet his new counterpart, Pete Hegseth, in a move to strengthen security ties with the second Trump administration.

Richard Ferguson, Sarah Ison and Noah Yim

Legislative agendaPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 21, 2024: Minister for the Environment and Water of Australia, Tanya Plibersek during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Nature-positive ‘a Labor negative’

Big business has undermined Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s claims her controversial nature-positive laws are ‘better’ for corporates.

Sarah Ison

ExclusiveDefence

ADF recruit process faces cultural fight

Peter Dean has lashed the government for being ‘exceptionally slow’ on addressing the defence force’s workforce crisis, warning young recruits are struggling with the lack of connection to the outside world.

Sarah Ison and Rhiannon Down

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