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Presenter also seeking correspondence between ABC managing director David Anderson and outgoing chair Ita Buttrose

Katharine Murphy’s departure from Guardian Australia ruffled feathers, but she’s not alone in crossing over to politics from the media.

Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong will fly to the Middle East today where she will meet victims of Israeli and Hamas violence, and the Victorian government bailed out Tennis Australia to the tune of $63 million.

The Walkley Foundation strips Seven’s Spotlight of its ‘Scoop of the year’ nomination after details of payments. Plus: Gideon Haigh leaves the crease

Golf Australia has revealed free-to-air TV numbers were up almost 200 per cent during the compelling final round of the Australian Open in Sydney.

Media companies have come under scrutiny for editorial positions on covering the Israel-Hamas war — but what are their actual policies?

David Van, former Liberal now independent ‘senator sixpack’, chatted up women on his official Instagram account using terms such as ‘babe’, ‘hon’ and ‘darling’, and leading No campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price knocked back requests for interviews from the ABC at least 52 times.

If the Labor government approves the 30 coal and gas projects on the table it could put 22 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and Anthony Albanese has mocked the 15-strong Coalition group that attended the ‘cooker fest’ in London last month.

Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe has slammed Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s Murray-Darling Basin Plan water deal with Senator David Van who Thorpe has accused of sexual assault, and the Australian privacy watchdog said it couldn’t do anything about a company accessing personal emails because the employee had used a work laptop.