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Charmayne Allison is an award-winning digital journalist for the ABC's national news desk.
She has previously worked as a news reporter for the ABC's Alice Springs and Shepparton bureaus.
She was named the 2025 NT Journalist of the Year and the 2023 Caroline Jones Young Journalist of the Year.
She has also won a Kennedy Award, a WA Media Award and two Melbourne Press Club Quill awards.
More Australian relationships are struggling because of political divides. But experts say this does not have to be the end.
Swimmers and boaties are being warned to avoid part of the Gold Coast Broadwater at Biggera Waters after a sewage leak just days out from Christmas.
Donald Trump has made the Kennedy Center a touchstone in a broader attack against what he claims is "woke", anti-American culture.
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Israel's military says Hamas has returned the bodies of four hostages from Gaza, with the remains of 24 others yet to be returned — as it happened.
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The assailant, who has been shot dead by police, drove a car into people outside a synagogue in northern England before stabbing them.
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is being urged to sack Britain's ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson amid growing scrutiny over his relationship and business dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Ukraine hasn't held a presidential election since 2019. International law experts say it's "ultimately not safe" until a peace agreement is reached with Russia.
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Mediators say it will take time, patience — and for world leaders like US President Donald Trump to keep applying pressure — before we will see peace in current major conflicts.
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Donald Trump has announced a federal takeover of Washington DC's police force, saying the city is "becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness". But is this true?
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Protesters in Sydney and Melbourne have marched in support of Palestinians in Gaza, with the Sydney Harbour Bridge closed to traffic as an estimated 100,000 people walked across.