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Stephen RiceSydney Bureau Chief

Stephen Rice started his newspaper career at The Sydney Morning Herald before moving into television, where he became executive producer of Nine’s Business Sunday programs. He has worked as a senior investigative producer on 60 Minutes and the Seven Network’s Sunday Night. He has twice won Walkley awards, including the award for Leadership in Journalism, and has law and arts degrees from ANU.

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DEFAMATION APPEALNation

4x3 Arthur Moses, Ben Roberts-Smith, Nick McKenzie

Judge slaps down misconduct claim by Roberts-Smith’s lawyer

A judge hearing the VC recipient’s bid to re-open his defamation appeal has slapped down a claim by his barrister that Nine reporter Nick McKenzie ‘threw his solicitors under a bus’.

Stephen Rice

exclusiveNation

Brittany Higgins, Linda Reynolds composite

Linda Reynolds in bid for ‘secret documents’

The potential release of communications between Brittany Higgins’s lawyer and legal giant HWL Ebsworth raises further questions about the firm’s role in her controversial $2.4m payout.

Janet Albrechtsen and Stephen Rice

Inside explosive endgameMedia

‘Sneering and supercilious’: Reporter takes stand against Ben Roberts-Smith’s silk

Nick McKenzie will be grilled this week by Ben Roberts-Smith’s barrister Arthur Moses SC – and there’s already no love lost between Nine’s star reporter and the fearsome silk.

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Inside explosive end gamecMedia

‘Sneering and supercilious’: Reporter Nick McKenzie takes stand against Ben Roberts-Smith’s silk

Nick McKenzie will be grilled this week by Ben Roberts-Smith’s barrister Arthur Moses SC – and there’s already no love lost between Nine’s star reporter and the fearsome silk.

Stephen Rice

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Reynolds sues commonwealth over Higgins $2.4m payout debacle

Former Liberal minister Linda Reynolds is claiming the then-Labor government’s $2.4m payout had the effect of ‘publicly affirming’ Brittany Higgins’ false allegations against her.

Janet Albrechtsen and Stephen Rice

‘Not a fishing expedition’Nation

Blow to Roberts-Smith’s defamation appeal bid

The war veteran’s hopes of reopening his failed defamation case have suffered a setback after a court threw out demands that Nine newspapers hand over documents.

Stephen Rice

courtsLegal Affairs

Daily Telegraph, Thursday 01st June 2023 - Nick McKenzie speaks to the press outside the Federal Court in Sydney.Picture: Christian Gilles

Journo’s response ‘is a pyramid of lies’

Nine reporter Nick McKenzie ‘threw his lawyers under the bus’ by suggesting they knew he’d been given privileged information but done nothing about it, a court has heard.

Stephen Rice

ExclusiveNation

Nine journalist Nick McKenzie to face cross-examination on secret Roberts-Smith recordings

Nine investigative reporter Nick McKenzie will face cross-examination in Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation appeal, as the ex-SAS soldier demands files from the ABC’s MediaWatch program.

Stephen Rice

exclusivePolitics

25 FEBRUARY 2025. The Defence Department has released more pictures of the Chinese warships in the Tasman Sea, which have now moved back into Australia's EEZ and are roughly 300 kilometres east of Hobart. Peopleâs Liberation Army-Navy Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang. *** Local Caption *** As part of Australiaâs whole-of-government maritime border protection efforts, Defence routinely monitors all maritime traffic in our Exclusive Economic Zone and maritime approaches. Australia respects the right of all states under international law to exercise freedom of navigation and overflight in international waters and airspace, just as we expect others to respect our right to do the same. Picture: Australian Defence Force

PM warns on China as Trump drops the ball on Pacific aid

China is now outspending the US in the Pacific, with Trump’s brutal aid cuts gifting Beijing a golden opportunity – and leaving Australia with a dangerous new ‘strategic reality’.

Stephen Rice

federal courtLegal Affairs

Former Blackbay Lawyers partner Justin Carroll(L) and Yianni Van Gelder [4:3]

Ex-BlackBay partner sacked for ‘serious misconduct’

Justin Carroll was dismissed for ‘serious misconduct’, including anti-Semitic slurs to describe clients and ‘sexist and misogynistic’ language about female colleagues.

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