Anne Davies
Anne Davies is the Washington correspondent for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, and covered the run up to the 2008 presidential election. She has served as the Herald's state political editor and urban affairs editor, uncovering deepening links between property developers and local politics. Her work with Kate McClymont helped win her a Gold Walkley for their coverage of the Canterbury Bulldogs rugby league salary cap scandal.
Push for Gillard to reveal her meetings
Anne Davies US president, Barack Obama, does it; the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, and his ministers do it; and the Queensland Premier, Campbell Newman, plans to do it.
Reveal full diary, PM urged
Anne Davies Information commissioner reccomends Julia Gillard release official meeting diary.
Pregnant women who smoke are easy targets for the morality police
Anne Davies Hands off! Since when did pregnant women's bodies become the domain of the morality police to be shamed and humiliated when they stray and have a cigarette or a glass of wine?
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Abbott reaches for the heavens while Bligh stays down to earth
Anne Davies The Queensland floods have been the political remaking of the Premier, Anna Bligh, and a testing time for the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.
Captain Bligh steers the ship in face of adversity
Anne Davies The caring Premier is seemingly on top of everything as she helps steer Queensland through its darkest hour, writes Anne Davies.
Bligh a white light beside the cool, coiffed Gillard
Anne Davies Disasters can define a politician's leadership. New York mayor Rudy Giuliani became a household hero on September 11, 2001. President George W.
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Commonwealth meeting a failed folly
Anne Davies By midnight most nights, the Skywalker bar of the Caribbean Princess was a sea of heaving bodies as young men and women engage in what the Americans call "grinding" and the Trinidadians call...
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A 'tsunami' of stress afflicts soldiers
Anne Davies The stony looks on the faces of the soldiers at Fort Hood, and on those of men and women in the surrounding communities, tell it all - they are struggling to deal with a mix of emotions from grief,...
Governor polls a blow to Obama
Anne Davies A thumping win for the Republicans in the governor's race in Virginia and a narrower win in the governor's race in New Jersey could have serious knock-on effects for the Obama Administration as it...
US praise for plan to accelerate talks
Anne Davies United States looking favourably at Australian plan to break one of the logjams in climate negotiations - how to enshrine differing objectives in a formal treaty.
