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Ben Doherty

Ben Doherty is a senior reporter for Guardian Australia, and a former foreign correspondent covering south-east Asia. He has won three Walkley awards for his foreign and immigration reporting. Email: ben.doherty@theguardian.com. Click here for Ben's public key

November 2025

  • Director-General of Security and the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Mike Burgess delivers the 2025 Lowy Lecture at Sydney Town Hall in Sydney, Tuesday, November 4, 2025. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

    Three countries are ‘willing and capable’ of assassinating political dissidents on Australian soil, Asio head warns

    Spy chief Mike Burgess says it’s possible the unnamed regimes ‘would try to hide their involvement’ in any killings
  • Composite of Al Basma IVF Centre, Gaza's largest fertility clinic which was struck by an Israeli shell.

    A single shell, fired by the IDF at a fertility clinic: peace prize recipient explains what lies behind her genocide finding

    Former UN inquiry chair Navi Pillay says ‘what’s so unusual about this genocide’ is that ‘we are all witnesses to it’
  • Full Story podcast artwork featuring the radar domes of the top-secret joint US-Australian missile defence base at Pine Gap near Alice Spring in central Australia

    Full Story
    The rising resistance to Pine Gap – Full Story podcast

    Nour Haydar speaks with senior reporter Ben Doherty about the questions the secret spy base raises about Australia’s complicity in alleged crimes abroad
    Podcast

October 2025

  • Activists from Mparntwe for Falastin lock themselves to a concrete-filled barrel on Hatt Road

    A remote spy base and a ‘criminal’ blockade raise questions about Australia’s complicity in Gaza war

  • Donald Trump with Anthony Albanese at the White House

    Donald Trump says Australia will get the Aukus submarines – but the decision won’t be his to make

  • Illustration shows a single worker through a submarine window, with a mock-up of an SSN-Aukus submarine

    Desperately seeking submariners: why keeping nuclear-powered boats afloat will be Australia’s biggest Aukus challenge

  • British rowers Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne arrive at Cairns Yacht Club.

    ‘Those final few hours were brutal’: British duo end epic journey in Australia after rowing across Pacific Ocean

  • Two Australian women and four children escape Syrian detention camp and flee to Victoria

  • Asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person

September 2025

  • Ben Roberts-Smith is seen during break at the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi)

    Full Story
    Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case reaches the end of the road – Full Story podcast

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  • Chris Sidoti speaks in front of a UN sign. He says the Gaza genocide is unique

    Mass slaughter in Gaza stands apart from other genocides, Chris Sidoti says: ‘People cannot escape’

  • A composite image of Nauru detention centre overlaid with screengrabs of Australian government tender records

    US private prisons operator to be paid $790m to hold 100 people on Nauru in quiet expansion of contract

  • Signage for CSL is seen at the CSL Global Headquarters and Centre for Research and Development centre in Melbourne

    Trump tariff announcement wipes $1bn from CSL value – as it happened

  • A US fascism expert warns: Australia is not immune and undoing the damage is ‘very, very hard’

  • Billion-dollar coffins? New technology could make oceans transparent and Aukus submarines vulnerable

  • Australia is spending $1.7bn on a fleet of Ghost Shark submarines. What are they?

  • ‘Every surfer feeling this’: tight-knit community mourns fatal shark attack on Sydney’s northern beaches

  • ‘A great tragedy’: man dies in shark attack near Dee Why on Sydney’s northern beaches

  • Labor and Coalition pass deportation laws set to make Nauru a ‘penal colony’ for Australia, critics say

  • People banished to Nauru by Australia face hostile reception as $2.5bn cost of deal revealed

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