Chip Le Grand
Chip Le Grand is The Age’s chief reporter. He writes about national affairs, sport and crime, with a particular focus on Melbourne.
WADA claims vindication, fails to restore trust
The Paris pool deck will be ground zero for athlete mistrust in anti-doping after WADA released its review of the Chinese swimming scandal.
- by Chip Le Grand and Tom Decent
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The denial and disinformation facing October 7 survivors
Holocaust scholars recognise a sadly familiar pattern in October 7 denial, but are shocked at how quickly it set in.
- by Chip Le Grand
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Secret recording reveals sense of budget crisis in Victorian hospitals
Bed and ward closures, reducing elective surgery, cancelling breast screenings and even closing special-care cots were all openly discussed as possibilities to save money.
- by Chip Le Grand, Jewel Topsfield, Henrietta Cook, Benjamin Preiss and Broede Carmody
Israeli ‘extremist’ tells Australian audience Gaza should have been reduced to ashes
At an online gathering hosted by the Australian Jewish Association, a former Israeli parliamentarian has made a series of incendiary claims condemned by Jewish and Palestinian community groups.
- by Chip Le Grand
‘If we change our way of life … they win’: Paris, terror and the ‘light-touch’ Olympics
Most host cities undergo an expensive building spree to fit the Games. Paris is making the Games fit the city.
- by Chip Le Grand
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Into the Lions’ Den: Militant Palestinian fighter group inspires hardline attack on Melbourne Uni
In what has been described as a concerning step-up in protest activity, activists in balaclavas have targeted the Baillieu Library in the name of an armed resistance group.
- by Chip Le Grand
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Paris 2024
Rise of the far right puts French pop star in crosshairs of Olympics culture war
France’s surging far right doesn’t want a black, Muslim woman singing, “Non, je ne regrette rien”, in front of the Eiffel Tower and a global television audience at the opening ceremony.
- by Chip Le Grand
‘Wreaking some destruction’: The schism in the Greens driving out Jewish members
Activists rising to power in the Greens are intent on reshaping the party into a hard left force, with overt sympathies for the pro-Palestinian protest movement.
- by Chip Le Grand
News Corp staff shocked at exit of senior editor
Rupert Murdoch’s Australian publishing empire has begun the painful task of shedding long-serving journalists amid falling revenues across the media industry.
- by Chip Le Grand, Stephen Brook and Colin Kruger
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First Peris, now Foster: Republic movement leaderless after exits
The Australian Republic Movement has revealed co-chair Craig Foster will follow Nova Peris out the door. The pair have different views on Israel.
- by Chip Le Grand
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Nova Peris quits republican movement over Gaza split with co-chair Craig Foster
The Olympic champion and former Labor senator says it is untenable to continue to work with Foster after what she described as his “inaccurate and divisive” comments against Israel.
- by Chip Le Grand