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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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Daniel Suidani, former premier of Malaita province, Solomon Islands.

Australia’s Pacific Island snub risks blindsiding Albanese

Labor is leaving itself open to being ‘surprised’ by China’s growing influence in Solomon Islands by declining to meet with its former premier and anti-Beijing politician Daniel Suidani.

Sarah Ison

EXCLUSIVENation

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - JULY 27: Former President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gives a keynote speech on the third day of the Bitcoin 2024 conference at Music City Center July 27, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. The conference, which is aimed at bitcoin enthusiasts, features multiple vendor and entertainment spaces and seminars by celebrities and politicians. Jon Cherry/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Jon Cherry / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Labor urged to champion crypto following US poll

Coalition MPs are calling for Australia to embrace cryptocurrency and deliver the online form of money ‘legal certainty’, as Donald Trump’s victory with the backing of blockchain investors sets the American economy on a new course.

Noah Yim and Sarah Ison

Pacific influencePolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 7, 2024: Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Government keen for ANZ to keep services in Pacific region

Labor is on the cusp of closing a major deal with ANZ to ensure the bank does not follow some of its rivals and withdraw services from the Pacific, creating a potential opportunity for China.

Sarah Ison

INQUIRERInquirer

Vanuatu capital Port Vila battered by Cyclone Judy in 2023

Resilience born in the eye of a never-ending storm

The brave people of Vanuatu have had to learn how to live with death, destruction and despair.

Sarah Ison

CHOGMNation

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attends Day 1 of CHOGM bilateral meeting in Samoa. Anthony Albanese with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Picture supplied

Albanese backs King’s climate crusade

As Australia and UK signed a new partnership to beef-up their collaboration on climate change, King Charles said the world was ‘well past believing it is a problem for the future’.

Sarah Ison

samoa addressWorld

Britain's King Charles III (C) reacts during the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Apia, Samoa, on October 25, 2024. (Photo by Rick Rycroft / POOL / AFP)

King Charles warns of impact of ‘misinformation, extremism’

King Charles III has raised alarm over misinformation, extremism and the impact of social media on society as part of his address to Commonwealth countries meeting in Samoa.

Sarah Ison

CHOGMPolitics

APIA, SAMOA - OCTOBER 24: King Charles III and Queen Camilla pose with local rugby union playersduring their Samoa Cultural Village visit on October 24, 2024 in Apia, Samoa. The King's visit to Australia is his first as monarch, and the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa will be his first as head of the Commonwealth. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images)

‘We have leadership role on climate change’

Anthony Albanese says Australia is playing a ‘leadership role’ in preparing the Pacific for climate change as he arrived in Samoa for a meeting of Commonwealth leaders.

Sarah Ison

LIVE: Politics NowNation

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets with China’s Premier Li Qiang on Thursday at the ASEAN summit of south East Asian leaders, in Vientiane, Laos. Image: supplied

‘Clear and consistent’: PM responds to China’s ‘hypocrisy’ claims

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended Australia’s right to stand up for its national interests, following accusations from China’s foreign ministry of ‘systemic racism and hate crimes’.

Sarah Ison and James Dowling

exclusivePolitics

CANBERRA, Australia. May 10, 2024: Defence expert and former chief of the Department of Home Affairs Mike Pezzullo at home in Canberra. Picture: Martin Ollman

Pezzullo rebuke: ‘it’s out of order’

Prominent Order of Australia holders have criticised the decision to strip Mike Pezzullo of his honour and are demanding more transparency about why the action was taken.

Greg Brown, Sarah Ison and Noah Yim

International relationsPolitics

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Hobart in relation to $188 million funding for Macquarie Wharf. Picture: Nikki Davis-Jones

Australia to face climate pressure at CHOGM

Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong will be pressed by Pacific nations this week about Australia’s fossil fuel exports.

Sarah Ison

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