Natalie Whiting is the ABC's North Asia correspondent, based in Tokyo. She was previously the broadcaster's Papua New Guinea correspondent and has also reported for the ABC from Europe and the Middle East.
Natalie is a video journalist and started her career with the ABC in the outback city of Broken Hill before being based in Orange, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobart, and Melbourne. She has worked across a range of the ABC's news and current affairs teams, including 7.30 and AM/PM.
Natalie has won several awards for her reporting, was an Andrew Olle scholar, and a two-time finalist for the Walkley Young Journalist of the Year. For her reporting from PNG, she was awarded the ACFID Media Award, the Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism and was a finalist for the Lowy Institute Media Award.
As the Iran war stretches on there are mounting concerns in the Asia-Pacific that a protracted conflict, and a distracted White House, could threaten peace in the region.
Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol's sentence for insurrection comes after a tumultuous era of shamanism, Chanel bags and conspiracy theories.
A high-profile lawyer asked to oversee the delivery of a $800,000 Victorian workplace safety project says she left early, after it instead left her feeling "victimised" in her own job.
ABC chair Kim Williams says he has "no doubt" Liberal leader Peter Dutton would initiate a funding review of the national public broadcaster if he wins the upcoming federal election.
The number of aspiring Australians being awarded sporting scholarships to American colleges is rising each year, with one Melbourne-based program breaking its own record.
Victoria's Information Commissioner Sean Morrison says the state's entire FOI system is "no longer fit for purpose" and is in urgent need of an overhaul.
One year after Point Cook mother Chaithanya Madhagani's body was found in a wheelie bin, her friends are still waiting for answers.
In the months after the December attack that devastated Melbourne's Jewish community, the synagogue's congregation has rallied, finding a makeshift place to pray and fundraising for the eventual rebuild of the site.
Members of Australia's Palestinian and Jewish communities say the hope and anticipation following a ceasefire deal is being shadowed by trepidation about whether it will hold and what the future will look like.
Kelp forests decimated by sea urchins are being replanted in Port Phillip Bay in an attempt to rebuild the ecosystem.
Prisoners transferred to a hospital for palliative care can be shackled to their beds for their final days. Some experts want to see change.
As climate change progresses, the CSIRO has created the first detailed national maps to help Australians understand the future risk to their properties.
A high court challenge is being lodged in Israel, to try to get an Israeli woman and her children out of Gaza.
Arwa says a requirement for war zone DNA tests for some people leaving Gaza claiming Israeli citizenship has left her family divided. A High Court ruling could change things.
Residents and refugees in the city of Jabalia are entering their 11th day under fire as part of a renewed push by the Israel Defense Forces. The IDF says it follows intelligence Hamas is "reforming in the area".
Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu have broken nearly two months of silence with a phone call at a tense time in the Middle East — and in their relationship.
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Fighting is intensifying in the Middle East with Hezbollah launching its biggest rocket barrage against Israel so far - with dozens of the weapons raining down on the country.
As the one-year anniversary of Hamas's devastating terror attack on Israel arrives, members of Australia's Jewish community are coming together to commemorate and remember those killed.
The first two Australian government charter flights land in the Mediterranean island to help Australian citizens, permanent residents and their family members flee the worsening conflict in Lebanon.
The two charter flights are taking Australian citizens, permanent residents, and their family members out of the Lebanon capital Beirut to the nearby island of Cyprus.
Victoria's South Sudanese community is working to rebuild after more than a decade of division.
Victoria's South Sudanese Community Association reforms after years of division.
Growing up in Australia, many African Australians struggle with the "dual-identity complex" — but a program in Melbourne's south-east is achieving "simply outstanding" results. Experts say it could be a blueprint for other communities.
The screeching of flying mammals has been driving some diplomats batty. But after years of reaching for ear plugs and complaint forms, a good night's sleep may have finally arrived.
The study's authors say more could be done by the federal government-funded eSafety Commissioner to make the internet a safer space.