Mostafa Rachwani

Australia

Reporter at The Guardian

🇱🇧🇦🇺 Reporter @GuardianAus, previously based in Qatar and Turkey, still trying to work it all out

Articles

As others around her fell, this Liberal MP stood her ground. But she’s not entirely happy

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Max Maddison |Mostafa Rachwani

By Max Maddison and Mostafa Rachwani May 7, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As she walked through the streets of Penrith on Tuesday, Lindsay MP Melissa McIntosh was hugged and congratulated by constituents. But for one of the few Liberal representatives remaining in Sydney, her return to parliament has “not been a celebration”.
‘All polling booths will get a visit’: NSW Police push for calm on election day

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Frances Howe |Mostafa Rachwani |Alexandra Smith

By Frances Howe, Mostafa Rachwani and Alexandra Smith May 2, 2025 — 8.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NSW Police will visit polling booths across the state on Saturday in a bid to ensure tensions do not boil over after threatening and aggressive behaviour at early voting centres prompted the electoral commission to warn that bad behaviour would not be tolerated.
Threats, ‘skulduggery’ and neo-Nazis prompt AEC warning about voting booths

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Natassia Chrysanthos |Mostafa Rachwani |Sherryn Groch

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Threats, ‘skulduggery’ and neo-Nazis prompt AEC warning about voting booths

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Natassia Chrysanthos |Mostafa Rachwani |Sherryn Groch

By Natassia Chrysanthos, Mostafa Rachwani and Sherryn Groch May 1, 2025 — 5.37pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A barrage of complaints about threatening and aggressive behaviour at polling booths has fuelled tension in Australia’s most hotly contested electorates and prompted electoral commission to warn candidates in marginal seats that such behaviour would discourage voters.
Threats, ‘skulduggery’ and neo-Nazis prompt AEC warning about voting booths

2 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Natassia Chrysanthos |Mostafa Rachwani |Sherryn Groch |Alexander Darling

By Natassia Chrysanthos, Mostafa Rachwani, Sherryn Groch and Alexander Darling May 1, 2025 — 5.37pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.
Churches, schools, film festivals: The millions in election dollars promised to Sydney communities

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Mostafa Rachwani

Churches, schools, film festivals: The millions in election dollars promised to Sydney communitiesSaveNormal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeLabor is promising nearly $85 million in election sweeteners to various ethnic communities in Sydney, opening a potentially pivotal battleground with the Coalition, which has made $64 million in similar pledges.
Churches, schools, film festivals: The millions in election dollars promised to Sydney communities

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Mostafa Rachwani

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Labor is promising nearly $85 million in election sweeteners to various ethnic communities in Sydney, opening a potentially pivotal battleground with the Coalition, which has made $64 million in similar pledges.
It was once Sydney’s neglected outpost. Then came the developers

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Mostafa Rachwani |Ellie Busby |Anthony Segaert

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Peter Berg doesn’t like the new Parramatta. He doesn’t like the new skyscrapers, the new cafes or the fact that so many streets are now pedestrian-only. Like many of his generation, Berg laments that Parramatta used to be a “working-class area, more of a village” with “street shopping, none of these big centres”.
In five years, Zeke has never had a classroom inside his school’s building

4 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Mostafa Rachwani

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Zeke Dumbleton has only ever been taught in demountables. The 10-year-old has attended Parramatta East Public School his whole life, and, apart from his kindergarten year, he has never had a classroom within the walls of the overcrowded western Sydney school. “Demountables are pretty much all he knows. He doesn’t really have anything to compare it to.
protesters target Dutton again despite secret travel plans; MP blames reply to ‘dirty tactics’ post on staffer

1 month ago | msn.com | Lisa Cox |Mostafa Rachwani

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