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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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The University of Queensland has been granted nearly $3 million to trial how artificial intelligence (AI) can support clinicians – partnered with 3D total skin imaging – for the early detection of melanoma. This project will provide researchers with access to the infrastructure needed to establish the world’s largest skin imaging database. Picture: File

Greens unveil $54bn bid for free GP visits

Adam Bandt wants Labor backing for the Greens’ new healthcare policy, should the government find itself needing to make a power-sharing deal with the party after the election.

Sarah Ison

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

Central Coroner David OâConnell will investigate the death of an elderly widower who took euthanasia drugs prescribed for his terminally ill wife. Photo: Kari Bourne / Sunshine Coast Daily

Watchdog casts doubt on aged care reforms

Labor’s $5.6bn aged care reform risks falling short of what was recommended by the royal commission and safeguards elderly Australians’ rights in a purely ‘aspirational’ way, the Inspector-General of Aged Care has warned.

Sarah Ison

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Australian Government Services Minister and former Labor Party Leader Bill Shorten speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House, in Canberra, Thursday, September 5, 2024. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Crystals, cuddle therapy, sex work to be banned from NDIS

Bill Shorten says changes to eligibility for the $40bn-a-year scheme will not happen until after the election, as he unveils the long-awaited list of approved services.

Sarah Ison

ACCCPolitics

Digital mock-up of Woolworths CEO Amanda Bardwell (left), ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb and Coles CEO Leah Weckert [4x3]

Millions pumped into watchdog fight against supermarkets

Labor will pump an extra $30m of funding into the nation’s consumer watchdog to beef up the resources needed to continue its crackdown on alleged deceptive conduct by supermarkets.

Sarah Ison

Foreign affairsPolitics

CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - August 28, 2024: Adam Bandt, Australian Greens Leader addresses the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on

Wong timeline call lashed from left and right

Greens leader Adam Bandt has said Labor was providing only ‘empty words’ following Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s call for a clear timeline on the creation of a Palestinian state.

Sarah Ison

Israel at WarPolitics

This handout photo released by Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on September 24, 2024, shows Australia's foreign Minister Penny Wong speaking to media in New York about a proposed UN declaration on the protection of humanitarian workers. Wong is in the US to lead Australia's delegation to the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly from September 23-27. (Photo by ANDREW KELLY / AUSTRALIA'S DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE / AFP) / XGTY / ---EDITORS NOTE ----RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE MANDATORY CREDIT

Wong delivers deadline for UN on Palestine

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has declared a timeline should be set for the international declaration of a Palestinian state and is pushing the UN Security Council to play a more significant role in advancing a two-state solution.

Joe Kelly and Sarah Ison

Childcare savingPolitics

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Labor welcomes fall in childcare costs as ‘part of economic plan’

Out-of-pocket costs for childcare have decreased by more than 13 per cent over 12 months to June this year, saving the average family about $800 a year.

Sarah Ison

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

7/1/24: ECAJ Co-CEO Alex Ryvchin in Sydney. After The Australian's reporting on southwest Sydney clerics giving hate-fuelled anti-Semitic sermons since October 7, the country's peak Jewish body is taking legal matters into their own hands, given the apparent inability of law enforcement to do anything. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry has announced they will take legal action against the clerics. They are still in discussions with lawyers about the routes open to them, but one being considered and likely is via the Aus Human Rights Commission and Federal Court under the Racial Hatred Act. Given legislation is unfit for purpose and authorities unable to clamp down, the Jewish body has said they will go it alone. John Feder/The Australian.

Labor’s laws ‘won’t stop the spread of hate’

A leading Jewish body has warned that Labor’s revamped misinformation laws may not go far enough to combat the spread of hate speech and anti-Semitic content online.

Rhiannon Down and Sarah Ison

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Aussies won’t give up travel in inflation crisis

Travel has become a ‘non-negotiable’ with new data showing more than 70 per cent of people are choosing to travel in the upcoming school holiday period.

Sarah Ison

VotePolitics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 13, 2024: David Coleman Federal Member For Banks Shadow Minister for Communications pictured speaking at a press conference at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Sydney.Picture: NewsWire / Damian Shaw

Coalition ‘no’ to misinformation bill

The Coalition has committed to formally opposing Labor’s misinformation bill in parliament, after months of concerns over the risk it may pose to free speech.

Sarah Ison and Rhiannon Down

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