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Qantas flight makes emergency landing at Sydney airport after engine failure, sparking grass fire near runway

A passenger onboard QF520 to Brisbane says it was ‘a real struggle to get airborne and it was clear to everyone … that something was badly wrong’

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Walkley-award winning journalist to investigate potential issues in ABC’s Line of Fire reports

Walkley-award winning journalist to investigate potential issues in ABC’s Line of Fire reports

Alan Sunderland to undertake independent review of online article and 7.30 story about an Australian military operation in Afghanistan

The Guardian - AU

ABC launches review after 2022 legal notice about 7.30’s Afghanistan troops edit comes to light

ABC launches review after 2022 legal notice about 7.30’s Afghanistan troops edit comes to light

David Anderson says further claims have come to light after broadcaster admitted video of troops in Afghanistan was ‘incorrectly edited’

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ABC admits video of Australian soldiers firing from helicopter in Afghanistan was ‘incorrectly edited’

News director Justin Stevens confirms in Melbourne Press Club speech broadcaster has removed the clip and is ‘looking into how this happened’

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Rupert Murdoch eases into retirement as Lachlan takes up baton of ‘philosophical integrity’

News Corp’s new chair praises coverage of Indigenous voice referendum and rallies troops against Labor’s proposed misinformation laws. Plus: ABC boss addresses Gaza coverage

The Guardian - AU

The curious case of Seven’s voice artwork, ABC licks wounds after defamation loss

The work created for SBS voice portal used during 7Plus referendum coverage. Plus: Courier Mail goes rosy over newsreader’s wedding proposal

The Guardian - AU

Defensive ABC to pay damages to defamed platoon leader

Former army commando Heston Russell has been awarded $390,000 in damages over allegations reported by the ABC about an executed prisoner in Afghanistan.

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ABC loses defamation case brought by former commando Heston Russell after public interest defence fails

ABC loses defamation case brought by former commando Heston Russell after public interest defence fails

Broadcaster must pay Russell $390,000 but judge did not award aggravated damages, finding the former commando ‘embraced the public controversy’

The Guardian - AU

Heston Russell defamation case: 2GB pursued ‘culture war’ when criticising ABC stories, court told

Heston Russell defamation case: 2GB pursued ‘culture war’ when criticising ABC stories, court told

ABC executive Jo Puccini tells court rival radio station derided ‘all’ of public broadcaster’s alleged war crimes coverage

The Guardian - AU

Heston Russell did not take up offer to talk to ABC journalist about article, court told

Heston Russell did not take up offer to talk to ABC journalist about article, court told

Mark Willacy tells defamation trial he was ‘prepared at any time to have a chat’ with former commando, who is suing the broadcaster

The Guardian - AU

Journalist called News Corp ‘tabloid bottom feeders’ after it queried ABC’s Heston Russell stories, court hears

Journalist called News Corp ‘tabloid bottom feeders’ after it queried ABC’s Heston Russell stories, court hears

Defamation trial hears Mark Willacy criticised ‘Murdoch’s people’ in email to confidential source after Daily Telegraph questioned reports on ex-commando

The Guardian - AU

Judge says ex-soldier Heston Russell defamation case becoming ‘a bit of a farce’ as ABC reinstates defence

Judge says ex-soldier Heston Russell defamation case becoming ‘a bit of a farce’ as ABC reinstates defence

Federal court judge drops demand for broadcaster to reveal source, stating their identity was already known by Russell

The Guardian - AU

ABC revives defence in ex-commando's defamation case

ABC revives defence in ex-commando's defamation case

An ex-commando's defamation case against the ABC will go to trial as a defence dropped in a "farce" by the public broadcaster two days ago has been reinstated.

Willacy war tales win PM's literary prize

Willacy war tales win PM's literary prize

Mark Willacy's Rogue Forces has won the non-fiction prize at the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, while novelist Nicolas Rothwell received the fiction prize.

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The Prime Minister's Literary Awards have proved contentious, but this year's winners are worth celebrating

The winners of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced this morning at a ceremony in Launceston. This year’s shortlists presented a challenge for the judges, who selected 30 titles from more than 540 eligible entries.

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Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2022: Nicolas Rothwell and Mark Willacy win major prizes

Rothwell’s second novel collected the fiction prize with Willacy’s follow-up to his 2020 investigation Killing Field winning for non-fiction

Nicolas Rothwell wins the Prime Minister's Literary Award for his novel Red Heaven

Nicolas Rothwell has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction, beating out strong contenders in Hannah Kent and Tony Birch.

Yumi Asada on 20 years working in the ABC Tokyo bureau and covering 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster

A quiet Friday and then the building started to sway. For producer Yumi Asada, this signalled the start of a devastating triple disaster and a news story she'd cover for more than a decade.

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The Guardian - AU

Man pleads guilty to harassing ABC’s Mark Willacy over reporting on alleged Afghanistan war crimes

Thomas Mark Rickard, who served in ADF, avoids conviction but is ordered to pay $1,000 good behaviour bond for leaving reporter abusive and threatening voicemail

Court hears former ADF reservist threatened to kill ABC journalist Mark Willacy's wife

Thomas Rickard left a message threatening to kill the wife of ABC journalist Mark Willacy after he uncovered war crimes allegations.

How Four Corners investigated alleged torture and mistreatment by Australian soldiers in East Timor

Former servicemen told Four Corners what happened in East Timor in 1999 set in train cultural issues that would later lead to alleged war crimes by Australian SAS soldiers in Afghanistan.

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