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National News Desk Director, Foreign Editor @7NewsAustralia | Instagram: @hughwhitfeld | https://t.co/LhbKjZUt6Q

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English cricket star Stuart Broad joins @7Cricket commentary team for this summer’s #ashes . via @YouTube.
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New episode of #theworld just dropped. Is Trump ‘Daddy’?.What’s Hegseth going to say?.And what about the outback murderer?.@7NewsAustralia .
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7NEWS Foreign Editor Hugh Whitfeld: Who is set to benefit in Trump’s second term? | 7NEWS
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Foreign Editor Hugh Whitfeld drills into what Donald Trump’s second term will look like with a turbo-charged MAGA agenda.
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"A girl in a flowing white dress floating gracefully into a dreamy sky filled with stars and colorful clouds at sunset.". Try Grok Imagine, free for a limited time:.
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Round out 2024 with a look at our year in review . @7NewsAustralia . Big news moments | 7NEWS . via @YouTube.
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Fifty years since Cyclone Tracy changed Darwin forever | 7NEWS via @YouTube.
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The biggest moments of 2024… on @7NewsAustralia .
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RT @7NewsSydney: As polls show a razor-thin margin between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the world is anxiously watching to see who the U….
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And I’m eager to embrace new challenges in my new job. See you soon. 🙏 . 11/11.
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11 months
For all the professional highs though, nothing matches what this decade has really afforded me. The chance to meet my wife. We’ll miss our little neighbourhood in North London, and our friends who’ve become family. But we’re excited about a new life back home. 10/.
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And those whose pictures deliver the world to Australians day after day, night after night. Those behind the lens: RB, Charlie H, Charlie B, Matt, Niall, Cam H, Neil, Nick, Paul, Tim S, Tim S, Conrad, Caleb and of course Jimmy. 9/.
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The band of Aussie media peeps in London who’ve come and gone (a few still here) for their collegiality. My colleagues in front of the camera over the years: Cath, Laurel, Sarah and Ashlee. 8/.
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11 months
I want to thank everyone who’s been part of the ride… . Our fearless producer/fixers in Rome, Paris, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Kyiv, Moscow and Barcelona. Those who’ve assisted from newsrooms in Sydney and Perth. Our ever-helpful friends at ITN. 7/.
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11 months
Days outside the UK on assignment? 647. Most visited country on assignment? France . BA flights? 189. 6/.
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Hugh Whitfeld
11 months
Hardest stories? MH17. The Sri Lanka Easter bombings. Syria. Favourite stories? Phillip Vowles and his giant vegetables. The Italian marble mine. Mick Fanning’s return to Jeffrey’s Bay. 5/.
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11 months
Protests and riots. Migrant journeys. Assange. Eurovision. Celebrity trials. Celebrity interviews. A celebrity wedding. The Ashes. Wimbledon. World Cups. Commonwealth Games. The Olympics. The Vatican. Covid. Quirky people. Extraordinary places. 4/.
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Royal weddings. Royal funerals. Royal babies. A coronation and an abdication. (Seemingly endless Royal drama.). Elections, referenda and summits. The birth of a new Republic. 3/.
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Hugh Whitfeld
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Wars. Acts of state-sponsored evil. Tragic accidents. Aussies in trouble. So many terror attacks. Brexit. 6 UK Prime Ministers. 2 French Presidents. 1 Turkish President. 2/.
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Hugh Whitfeld
11 months
After ten and a half years, it’s time to go. It is not lost on me how fortunate I have been to have been trusted to tell some of the world’s most momentous stories for this long. 1/
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