Latest news with #KarenMiddleton

RNZ News
15-07-2025
- Business
- RNZ News
Australia correspondent:
File photo of Anthony Albanese meeting Xi Jinping in 2022. Photo: Yan Yan / XINHUA / Xinhua via AFP Australia correspondent Karen Middleton talks about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's week-long trip to China, which comes amid a backdrop of tensions with traditional allies the US over trade and defence. Allegations of child sex abuse against a Melbourne childcare worker have added four more centres to the list of places where children may've been at risk, and told families of another 800 children to get them tested for STDs. The Federal Court has dismissed a class action by Torres Strait Islanders against the Australian government over climate change to their home. And the Reserve Bank has proposed a ban on credit and debit card surcharges. Karen Middleton is a political journalist based in Canberra

RNZ News
01-07-2025
- Climate
- RNZ News
Australia: 'Bomb cyclone' hits east coast
Well over 100mm of rain is ahead for much of the NSW coast during the next 72 hours. Photo: ABC News Australia correspondent Karen Middleton has the latest on the storm rocking the country's south-east coast, an horrific and widespread child abuse case has been uncovered in Melbourne with nearly 1200 young children advised to get tests for sexually transmitted diseases and the jury retires to consider its verdict in the mushroom poisoning trial of Erin Patterson. Karen Middleton is a political journalist based in Canberra

RNZ News
17-06-2025
- Politics
- RNZ News
Australia: Officer shot, mushroom wrap, Trump dump
Australia correspondent Karen Middleton details the shooting in Tasmania of a police officer who'd gone to serve a warrant to repossess a house in the state's rural north-west. The final prosecution arguments have been delivered in the high-profile death cap mushroom trial of Erin Patterson. Anthony Albanese's much-hyped first meeting with US President Donald Trump at the G7 hasn't happened, after Trump's decision to leave the summit early. And two of Australia's highest-profile current affairs talk shows, The Project and Q&A, have been cancelled. Karen Middleton is a political correspondent based in Canberra To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.

RNZ News
22-04-2025
- Business
- RNZ News
Australia: Election latest, tariff twist, Virgin travails
Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about the latest political polls ten days out from the election which point to Anthony Albanese's government being returned. Australian beef producers have found favour in China in the latest twist to Trump's tariff war. Virgin Australia passengers were stranded in Queenstown Airport overnight at Easter - not great PR as the airline prepares to relist on the sharemarket after a five-year hiatus. And it's been one of the worst Easter weekends for drownings on record. Karen Middleton is a political journalist based in Canberra To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.