Michael Bachelard
Michael Bachelard is a senior writer and former deputy editor and investigations editor of The Age. He has worked in Canberra, Melbourne and Jakarta, has written two books and won multiple awards for journalism, including the Gold Walkley.
Inquiry into Brethren election involvement calls on Dutton to appear
Committee chairman Jerome Laxale wants the former opposition leader to explain the nature of the relationship between the party and the church group.
- Michael Bachelard
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Meet Australia’s most persistent scammer, now ascending to the cloud
Dominique Eva Grubisa made a career and a fortune out of what courts now say was misleading and deceptive conduct. Nothing, so far, can stop her.
- Michael Bachelard
- Opinion
- Press freedom
‘Everybody hates you every single day’: Why the Silvagni case is the tip of the iceberg
Suppression orders to protect the mental health of rapists is just the beginning. The courts have become unfriendly to the public, which is no good for any of us.
- Michael Bachelard
Too dangerous to return? What we know of the ISIS brides
Some call for the families to be rescued from the camps in Syria. Others, haunted by their own suffering at the hands of Islamic State, are afraid of their return.
- Michael Bachelard and Anthony Segaert
ISIS brides prepared to go to jail to get their children to Australia
ASIO has cleared this cohort of security concerns but the government still insists it will not bring back anyone – women or children.
- Michael Bachelard and Andrew Probyn
- Exclusive
- Investigations
‘I saw houses for the first time’: Australia’s Syrian children tell us about their lives
After years in a wind-blown camp in north-eastern Syria, the girls say they just want to come back to this country.
- Michael Bachelard and Mohammed Hassan
- Exclusive
- Islamic State
Sydney doctor’s campaign letter: re-electing Burke the ‘only hope’ of bringing ISIS brides home
In a letter published in the Sydney-based Middle East Times newspaper in April last year, Rifi urged voters in Burke’s electorate of Watson to reject a hardline pro-Palestinian independent campaign to unseat him.
- Paul Sakkal and Michael Bachelard
- Exclusive
- Islamic State
Doctor working to bring home ISIS brides carrying extra passport for ‘lost’ boy jailed in Iraq
In his first public comments, Jamal Rifi, the Sydney doctor organising the families’ return, said the prime minister’s tough talk was “the biggest obstacle”.
- Michael Bachelard and Brittany Busch
- Special series
- The restaurant tycoons
Lygon Street divided: The untold story of the Brunetti brothers’ break-up
In the second instalment of an Age series investigating the city’s restaurant tycoons, we go behind the scenes of a Carlton dynasty. For the first time, the brothers behind Brunetti reveal the inside story of the split that reshaped Lygon Street.
- Michael Bachelard
How PM’s tough line on IS brides has left 34 women and children in no man’s land
Buried in the fine print of Anthony Albanese’s harsh words is a caveat: almost all of these people are entitled by law to come back to Australia from Syria.
- Michael Bachelard