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Michael Bachelard

Reporter · AU

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Sep 25, 2026
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Jul 13, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Michael Bachelard, Sherryn Groch

    Exclusive Brethren leader calls Jews ‘wicked’, ‘infidel’ as Liberals remain silent (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The world leader of the Exclusive Brethren church, which ran a covert campaign supporting the Coalition at the last federal election, has described Jews as evil, malicious infidels who are unable to ever atone for the sin of killing Jesus. Leaked church records spanning more than two decades reveal Bruce Hales, the church’s leader and “Elect Vessel”, repeatedly preaching to his 56,000-stong global

  2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Michael Bachelard

    Australian charged with murder in Syria to be medically assessed after mother’s plea (opens the original)

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    A young Australian man who is facing the death penalty in Syria will be medically assessed for mental impairment after his mother and a lawyer flew to the strife-torn region to advocate for him. Patrick Stevenson, 20, a Muslim convert from the Gold Coast, is accused of murdering another Australian convert, Abdullah Glen Burgess, late last year by shooting him eight times with an AK-47 inside the dead man’s apartment in Idlib province. Stevenson’s mother Angela Bell and human rights lawyer Bernad

  3. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Michael Bachelard

    ‘Of course I’m frightened’: Australian mother flies to son accused of murder in Syria (opens the original)

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    The mother of a young Gold Coast man accused of murdering another Australian in strife-torn Syria is travelling to her son’s side, against government advice, believing he is innocent. Angela Bell plans to fly out this week with human rights lawyer Bernadette Zaydan to Idlib province in Syria as her son, Patrick Stevenson – a 20-year-old convert to Islam – waits in a local prison facing charges that, if proven, could result in the death penalty. Stevenson has been accused by Syrian authorities of

  4. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Michael Bachelard

    Revealed: The 13 Australians who could face the death penalty in Iraq (opens the original)

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    A number of Australians could face the death penalty after the government of Iraq announced it was moving to prosecute former participants in Islamic State for terror offences. Thirteen Australian men – including one who was taken to Syria by his family as a boy – are in Iraq’s Al-Karkh Central Prison after surviving the fall of Islamic State in 2019, then being transferred earlier this year from prisons in Syria. Six of the men are from Sydney, four from Melbourne and one each from Perth and Ad

  5. Article · Aug 8, 2026 · Michael Bachelard, Bianca Hall, Gay Alcorn

    Fire, flood and wishful thinking: Why we’re not ready for Victoria’s climate future (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Gloria and Ian Brereton survive on a dark kind of wishful thinking. Their hope is that by the time the next flood sweeps through their little house in Mooroopna in rural Victoria, they’ll be dead. “We’re sort of towards the end of our lives,” says the seventy-something Gloria as she prepares pasties in a kitchen overlooking her lush back garden. “So I think, well, hopefully … we won’t be around fo

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