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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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MARGIN CALLMargin Call

02/06/16 Catriona Noble, ANZ Managing Director, Retail Distribution Pic Renee Nowytarger / The Australian.

Sexodus: female executives flee Australia Post

The unavoidable truth at Australia Post is that women, once equal in number to the men on the executive, are back to a vanishing small minority. There’s only one left.

Yoni Bashan

Israeli hostagesWorld

These Israeli hostages are still being held in Gaza.

The face behind Hamas’s cruelest hostage act

Their family is not giving up on Israeli hostages Shiri, Yarden, Ariel and Kfir Bibas. But campaigning for their release has been a gruelling, exhausting job with no tangible result | WATCH

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Behind the frontlineWorld

Tunnel vision of the terror that lies beneath

As rookie soldiers in Israel take their first tentative steps on to the battlefield in Gaza, they quickly learn three lessons. Yoni Bashan reports from inside Gaza, the first journalist from an Australian media outlet to do so since October 7.

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exclusiveWorld

Ofir Engel (L) with his grandfather, Joseph (C), and girlfriend Yuval Sharabi (R) after his release at a protest for the hostages. Ms Sharabi’s father, Yossi, was murdered in captivity a week ago.

Hostages scarred by pain and guilt

Israeli hostages released in November are taking their first steps to re-adjusting to normal life. But the long road to recovery is beset with survivor’s guilt and fears for those left behind.

Yoni Bashan

analysisPolitics

Senator the Hon Penny Wong meets with victims of settler violence in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank on January 17, 2024. Picture: DFAT

Wong’s tightrope Middle East tour

Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s arrival in Israel came at a time of immensely confusing gestures from the Albanese government. She will return home with few tangible outcomes.

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Funding criticismNation

Foreign Minister Penny Wong with Israeli ambassador Amir Maimon and a tour guide at the Holocaust memorial centre Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem.

Wong warns Palestine over aid

The move to increase funding to a controversial UN group has been called an ‘investment in hatred’ by a former Labor MP.

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‘difficult conversation’World

Foreign Minister Penny Wong with hostage families and Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, second from right. Picture: DFAT

We stand with Israel, says Wong

Penny Wong emerged visibly moved from a meeting with the families of hostages being held in Gaza, assuring them that Australia stands in solidarity with their plight and with Israel.

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MIDDLE EAST CONFLICTPolitics

16/1/2024: Senator the Hon Penny Wong arrives in Jordan on a diplomatic mission where she will later visit Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the United Arab Emirates. Picture: DFAT

‘We don’t accept’ genocide case: Wong

Penny Wong has given the strongest signal yet that Australia does not support South Africa’s case of genocide against Israel, as she unveiled a $21m aid package.

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MIDDLE EAST CONFLICTPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. DECEMBER 4, 2023: Senator Penny Wong during Question Time in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Wong won’t visit site of Hamas atrocities

Penny Wong won’t visit the Israeli towns where the October 7 massacres occurred, marking another break in Australia’s position from some of its closest allies.

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INQUIRERInquirer

Corporal Ido Binanstock, aged 19, recorded an audio note to his friends saying goodbye as the battle raged around him

Young heroes stood little chance against thousands of jihadists

The IDF has cultivated – and Israelis have willingly absorbed – the image of an impenetrable military force brimming with daring commandos and career soldiers who munch on glass for breakfast and never falter on the battlefield. October 7 told a different story.

Yoni Bashan

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