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Behind the headlines:

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Claire Harvey, Yoni Bashan, Ellie Dudley and

Liam Mendes LIVE

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Be part of an exclusive panel discussion that takes you behind the scenes of recent local and global events. Join The Australian’s Editorial Director, Claire Harvey for this unique opportunity to hear directly from the journalists who have covered some of this year’s most compelling stories.

 

Margin Call Editor and Middle East correspondent, Yoni Bashan and Reporter, Liam Mendes will share their first-hand experiences from the Middle East, amidst missile strikes on Tel Aviv and tensions along the Lebanon border, revealing how these events impact local communities and shape regional dynamics.

 

National Chief of Staff, Ellie Dudley will recount her journey covering the gripping Mushroom Cook trial in Victoria, offering insights into the emotional and intense experience of reporting on one of the most intriguing legal stories of recent times.

 

 

Event Details
Date: Wednesday, 3 September 2025
Time: Livestream commences from 6:30pm AEST
Location: Online

 

Online event | 6:30pm AEST Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Claire Harvey

Editorial director, The Australian

Harvey is The Australian’s Editorial Director and Host of The Front daily news podcast. A renowned Australian journalist, having started her career in The Australian’s Canberra bureau in 1994 and having since covered major news stories working as a reporter, foreign correspondent, deputy editor and columnist in Australia and overseas.

Claire Harvey

Yoni Bashan

Margin Call Editor and Middle East correspondent, The Australian

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.

Yoni Bashan

Ellie Dudley

National Chief of Staff, The Australian

Ellie Dudley is The Australian’s national chief of staff, having previously been legal affairs correspondent covering courts, justice and changes to the legal profession. She edited The Australian’s weekly legal newsletter, Ipso Facto, and won Young Journalist of the Year in 2024 at both the Kennedy Awards and the News Awards.

Ellie Dudley

Liam Mendes

Reporter, The Australian

Liam is a journalist with The Australian covering crime, investigations, natural disaster, Indigenous affairs and major breaking news, and tells many of his stories through portrait and news photographs, as well as video. He started his journalism career as a photographer before freelancing for the NZ Herald, news.com.au and the Daily Telegraph. Liam was News Corp Australia’s Young Journalist of the Year in 2022.

Liam Mendes

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