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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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Kylie Watson-Wheeler in line to replace Gillon McLachlan

Disney executive in high demand

Her name keeps being connected with – and being passed over for – vacant positions of power, but Kylie Watson-Wheeler insists she’s not interested in the jobs in the first place.

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Political duo Georgie Purcell and Josh Burns are set to step out for their first public appearance at next week’s midwinter ball. Picture: Supplied

Photos reveal rocky conversion from meat lover to plant-based paramour

Now he’s dating Victorian Animal Justice Party MP and vegan Georgie Purcell, federal Labor MP Josh Burns is on the path to becoming an enlightened vegetarian. But it hasn’t been easy.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 15: Gina Rinehart and Dawn Fraser watch the WomenÃ¢â¬â¢s 1500m Freestyle Final during the 2024 Australian Swimming Trials at Brisbane Aquatic Centre on June 15, 2024 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Rinehart left in lurch for Games tickets

We’re four weeks out from the Paris Olympics and we’re hearing of a mad scramble by the AOC to get a much-coveted swimming pass for the country’s wealthiest person, Gina Rinehart.

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20/04/2021 : The men that saved Virgin, L-R John Greig , Richard Hughes and Sal Algeri , from Deloitte Australia are three of the four Voluntary Administrators of Virgin Australia, at Brisbane airport Pic Lyndon Mechielsen

Deloitte heavies humbled in court

A courtroom capitulation is one of the few acceptable forms of public humiliation still left for a society to relish, especially when it involves the insolvency team at one of the world’s largest accounting firms.

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Snapchat‘s transparent political gambit

Snapchat has announced measures to protect its teenage users from predators, coincidentally or perhaps not, just as its policy honcho faces an Australian parliamentary grilling.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire photos OCTOBER 10, 2022: Premier Dominic Perrottet and Treasurer Matt Kean will make an announcement about first home buyers at Messenger Rd, Leppington in SW Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dylan Coker

Perrottet now keen to call time

Liberal strategists in NSW want former premier Dominic Perrottet to follow one-time treasurer Matt Kean out the political door so is that about to happen?

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DFAT off the hook on staff towels in rare scandal

A stoush over staff lockers at DFAT has caused something of a stink, figuratively and literally, at what is ordinarily Canberra’s most diplomatic of places.

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Canberra-based psychic medium Carrie de Block, left, was a guest at the wedding of Brittany Higgins and David Sharaz.

A psychic wedding guest – who saw that coming?

The Higgins-Sharaz wedding guest list was limited to close family and friends with perhaps one odd exception: a Canberra-based psychic medium whom the groom is very much a fan of.

Yoni Bashan and Eli Greenblat

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 27: Gillon McLachlan, Chief Executive Officer of the AFL speaks to the media during the 2023 Grand Final Footy Festival Launch at Melbourne Cricket Ground on September 27, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Dylan Burns/AFL Photos via Getty Images)

McLachlan dithers on Racing Victoria role

What is it with Gillon McLachlan? He took ages to depart the AFL and now he’s apparently keeping Racing Victoria hanging over a will-he-or-won’t-he job decision.

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ALP MP Josh Burns, a Jew, is dating a pro-Palestinian MP.

‘Thrillseeking missile’: did Labor MP dump single mum?

Romance gone bad makes for toe-curling reading. We have it on good authority the caddish daddy at the centre of one woman’s awkward public revelations is none other than Josh Burns.

Yoni Bashan and Christine Lacy

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