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Yoni BashanMargin Call Editor

Yoni Bashan is the editor of the agenda-setting column Margin Call. He began his career at The Sunday Telegraph and has won multiple awards for crime writing and specialist investigations. In 2014 he was seconded on a year-long exchange to The Wall Street Journal. His non-fiction book The Squad was longlisted for the Walkley Book Award. He was previously The Australian’s NSW political correspondent.

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NSW Chief Medical Officer Dr Kerry Chant speaks to the media during a press conference in Sydney, Sunday, May 10, 2020. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

Virus ‘effectively contained’ in NSW: top official

Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant believes NSW is unlikely to face another major wave of COVID-19 infections this year.

Yoni Bashan

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Mark Latham at the 2019 Everest Draw Projection function held at the Opera Bar in Sydney. The draw for the 2019 Everest race will be displayed upon the pillars of the Harbour Bridge from 8PM.Picture: Christian Gilles

Latham calls out grab for land tax

NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham said the excuse was a furphy, as the vast majority of valuations were conducted via computer.

Yoni Bashan

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Michael Pratt AM pictured at the 2019-2020 Budget Estimates Hearing held at NSW Parliament in Sydney.Picture: Richard Dobson

Crucial win for foreign students

The NSW government has finally approved a long-awaited COVID-19 hardship package for international students.

Yoni Bashan

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NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet speaks to the media at the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney, Wednesday, May 6, 2020. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

Treasurer pushing PS wage freeze

NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet has doubled down on his commitment to pursuing a public sector wage freeze.

Yoni Bashan

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Matthew Karagiannis does not know when it will happen but gets ready for when things open up the bar at Palmer & Co in Sydney. Picture Chris Pavlich

Bar’s open … but there’s a limit to the fun

Pubs and clubs in NSW can serve 10 patrons at a time from Friday as long as they sit at a table.

Yoni Bashan

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Minister for Jobs, Investment and Tourism Stuart Ayres speaks to the media during a press conference in Sydney, Friday, May 8, 2020. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

‘Open borders to interstate tourists’

NSW Tourism Minister Stuart Ayres is demanding all state and territory borders be reopened from July 1.

Yoni Bashan

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Alan Jones shows off his 10 year golden cufflinks given to him by John Singleton as radio 2GB celebrate 10 years as the number one radio station in Sydney at their Pyrmont offices. pic mark evans

Jones takes doctor’s call to quit radio

Alan Jones says a threat by his doctor that he could drop dead ‘walking down the street’ prompted his retirement from radio.

Nick Tabakoff

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11th May 2020.L-R, Wavell State High School students Samuel Hudson, William Simulaeta, Bella Separovich and Clarice Bolton return to school.Photo: Glenn Hunt / The Australian

Kids return and they couldn’t be happier

More than 240,000 Queensland students returned to school on Monday for the first time in six weeks.

Charlie Peel and Yoni Bashan

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Carnival director Paul Mifsud leaves the Ruby Princess Special Commission on Monday, 11 May, 2020. Picture: Nikki Short

Ruby director denies ‘business as usual’

A Carnival Australia director has denied telling a port official Ruby Princess was ‘not a COVID ship’.

Yoni Bashan

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17/03/2020. Professional development for budding politicians with ( L-R) President of the Legislative Council, John Ajaka, and Speaker Jonathan O'Dea, who is pioneering this approach. NSW Parliament will begin giving politicians a 101 crash course on leadership, ethics, philosophy and how to write bills, when they get elected. Currently, they get nothing. It's fend for yourself and good luck. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

MPs to get lessons in manners

Politicians will be offered crash-course training to lift behavioural standards on the floor of parliament.

Yoni Bashan

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