Michael Bachelard
Michael Bachelard is The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald's foreign editor and the investigations editor at The Age. He has worked in Canberra, Melbourne and Jakarta as Indonesia correspondent. He has written two books and won multiple awards for journalism, including the Gold Walkley in 2017.
How a man who helped run a brutal military machine lives with the fallout
Yasseen saw what the Syrian regime was prepared to do to win a war against its own people. He was an air force officer. He helped them do it.
- by Michael Bachelard & Kate Geraghty
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The world doesn't want them, so what will Syria's refugees do now?
In Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, six million Syrians are camped out. Pressure is building for them to go back to Syria. So we asked them what they think.
- by Michael Bachelard & Kate Geraghty
Kidnapped, threatened and ransomed: one man's disastrous return to Syria
Raman saw videos of how safe and secure his old home was in Afrin, Syria. So he went back. That's when his nightmare began.
- by Michael Bachelard & Kate Geraghty
Death toll still climbing from Indonesia's 'silent tsunami'
Indonesia has confirmed 429 people died in Saturday's killer wave, as Australia offered help, but was rebuffed.
- by Michael Bachelard & Amilia Rosa
Why Yael Stone was too scared to tell her story in Australia
An actress accusing Geoffrey Rush of lewd behaviour says Australian laws, like sexual harassment, 'favours the person with money, influence and power'
- by Michael Bachelard & Debbie Cuthbertson
Conflict cuisine packs a surprisingly good punch
Shawarmas, kebabs, and the ever-present staple felafels can be found in many wonderful and tasty forms through out the Middle East.
- by Michael Bachelard
War criminal might have won defamation case under court's new rules
In 2009 The Australian turned the NSW Supreme Court into a de facto war crimes tribunal, and won. Would that even be possible in the Federal Court now?
- by Michael Bachelard
Why would a lawyer turn against her clients? She says she just wanted to do the right thing
Informer 3838's account of her own story comes in an extraordinary 2015 letter which combines self-justification and a surprising level of personal detail.
- by Michael Bachelard, Cameron Houston, Tammy Mills & Chris Vedelago
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Iraq's devastated regions to receive record Australian government aid
The money will go to communities devastated by the long occupation of Islamic State, and then reduced to rubble by the attempt to oust them.
- by Michael Bachelard
How a zombie case came back to life thanks to Australia's defamation law
The Chelmsford deep sleep scandal happened in the 1960s and '70s. Now a publisher is being asked to prove the truth of issues when most players are long dead.
- by Michael Bachelard
The day I drank (bad) coffee with armed militants in a concrete jungle
The men of Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Lebanon are full of masculine posturing, pride, and thwarted dreams.
- by Michael Bachelard