Emily Clark
Emily Clark is a journalist with ABC News International. She has been a journalist since 2010, working in current affairs television and digital news. Emily has been with ABC News since 2014, working on the mobile team, as front page editor and as digital lead of the national rounds team. In 2020, Emily was deputy editor of ABC News Digital and travelled to the United States to cover the general election. Get in touch at Clark.Emily@abc.net.au or on Twitter @Em_Dawn.
Latest by Emily Clark
Biden stumbles as Trump deflects in 'game-changing' presidential debate — as it happened
By Brad Ryan in Washington DC, Emily Clark, North America bureau chief Jade Macmillan, Andrew Thorpe and Matt Bevan for If You're Listening
US President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump conclude their debate in Atlanta, Georgia — and pundits are united in their view that it was a bad night for the president. Take a look back at how the debate unfolded.
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Why the hearing to free Julian Assange happened on a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific
By Emily Clark, Basel Hindeleh, Riley Stuart and wires
Julian Assange's long-running legal odyssey has moved around the world, but its last stop was a courtroom on a small island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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Caroline was a seasoned flyer who wore her seatbelt on long-haul flights. Then she got up to go to the bathroom
By Emily Clark
Nearly 16 years ago, Caroline Southcott got up to go to the toilet on a flight from Singapore to Perth. As she was returning to her seat, she suffered severe injuries that continue to impact her to this day.
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analysis:I've been talking to Trump's 'super supporters' for years. This is why they see his conviction as injustice
By Emily Clark
Donald Trump's conviction in the hush money trial in New York gives him another line to help push the conspiracy theory he's been promoting to his supporters all along.
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'I believe we're on the edge of a revolution': While the NZ government delivered its budget, protests were sweeping the nation
By Emily Clark
The new government in New Zealand handed down its first full budget and details of its long-promised tax cuts, but as that happened thousands of people rallied for a national day of protest against its policies.
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analysis:The Block NZ was cancelled, then more than 200 journalists lost their jobs. A media crisis is coming
By Emily Clark
On both sides of the Tasman, there are massive shifts on the horizon in the news and production industries, with a raft of closures and cancellations already hitting in New Zealand and mystery surrounding the next moves of one of the world's biggest media empires.
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Turbulence caused 'life-changing' injuries for dozens of passengers. Now, flying could change
By Emily Clark
As the details of the devastating injuries sustained onboard flight SQ321 emerge, attention is turning to what happens to these passengers and crew now and what can be done to make all the hours spent in an aircraft cabin safer.
'It is crunch time': Kiwis are leaving NZ at a record rate, and they're headed to Australia
By Emily Clark
As New Zealanders grapple with high interest rates, stubborn inflation and general economic downturn, job losses have begun and more Kiwis than ever are leaving for good.
Cher's naked dress, Princess Diana in a slip and Alexander McQueen's tartan ensemble: Why the Met Gala is regarded as the 'Superbowl of Fashion'
By Emily Clark, Lucia Stein and Rebecca Armitage
Once upon a time, the Met Gala was a simple midnight supper held to raise money for the then-struggling Costume Institute. So how did a dinner with a $50 entry fee morph into the celebrity circus that takes over every first Monday in May?
'He's embarrassed the country': NZ's foreign minister slammed for on air-comments about Bob Carr
By Emily Clark and wires
Bob Carr says he intends to sue New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters over controversial remarks made on radio this morning after weeks of debate about AUKUS.
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After the Christchurch attacks, Twitter made a deal with Jacinda Ardern. Elon Musk changed everything
By Emily Clark
The organisation set up to work with governments and technology companies to eradicate violent content online in the wake of the Christchurch attacks confirms it has offered assistance to Australia over its legal battle with X.
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In NZ, negative gearing was slashed years ago. This is what happened to first home buyers
By Emily Clark
Property investors in New Zealand have had several years with a reduced ability to claim their interest payments as a tax deduction, but the new Coalition government has brought it back.
Caitlin Clark is this year's number one draft pick in the WNBA. Her salary has sparked outrage
By Emily Clark
There is a real-time example playing out on the world stage of how salaries are impacted by structures that were built for men decades before anyone thought to include women.
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Details from the phone call between Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu emerge — as it happened
By Shiloh Payne and Emily Clark
Details of a phone call between United States President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the Iranian attack have emerged.
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For millions of years, the earth here has been rising up. Now two Australians are lost on Mysterious Valley Trail
By Lucia Stein, Rebecca Armitage and Emily Clark
Ten days after Taiwan's earthquake trapped people inside Taroko National Park, three people remain unaccounted-for, including Australian-Sinaporean couple Sim Hwee Kok and Neo Siew Choo.
This rugged coastline is the site of mysterious crashes. One expert calls it 'New Zealand's Bermuda Triangle'
By Emily Clark
It was supposed to be an adventurous day-trip deep into New Zealand's rugged Southern Alps, but on February 12, 1962, the tourists on board the Dragonfly never came home.
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Cockpit seat movement reportedly under scrutiny after LATAM Airlines sudden drop
By Emily Clark and wires
There are reports the sudden movement experienced on a LATAM Airlines flight to Auckland on Monday was due to the movement of a cockpit seat.
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'Mass chaos broke out': The moments after the LATAM Airlines flight to NZ suddenly lost altitude
By Emily Clark
Authorities seize the flight data recorders for Chilean LATAM Airlines Flight 800 after a "technical fault" caused passengers to be "thrown out of their seats" while it was flying from Sydney to Auckland.
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Fifty people injured after 'technical problem' on Sydney to Auckland flight
By Emily Clark
Fifty people have been injured after a "technical problem" on a LATAM Airlines flight from Sydney to Auckland.
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'I will not speak Māori': Fears new policies in NZ threaten 50 years of progress
By Emily Clark in Waitangi
Last century, children were forced to write lines of 'I will not speak Māori' as punishment. Now as grandparents, they fear progress around the use of the Māori language is at stake.
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Judge says there is an 'inescapable moral' obligation to pay after awarding $10m to survivors, families in White Island disaster
By Emily Clark
Several of the guilty parties in the long-running prosecution over the Whakaari White Island disaster have been sentenced in Auckland.
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The videos that should have raised an alarm in PNG that blood was about to be shed
By PNG correspondent Tim Swanston and Emily Clark
A month before a massacre in Papua New Guinea's highlands, videos emerged of the high-powered weapons tribes in the region now have in their possession.
'They have no business with that treaty': Māori protesters clash with NZ prime minister in Waitangi
By Emily Clark in Waitangi
This year's Waitangi Day is bigger than any of the past 30 years, as Māori from all over Aotearoa unite against a controversial government bill that could change the Treaty of Waitangi.
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'How dare they think that they can erase Māori': Why this long walk to Waitangi is so significant
By Emily Clark
This weekend, 80,000 people are expected to arrive at the grounds where New Zealand's founding document was signed by Māori chiefs and representatives of the crown. And they have a message for the prime minister.
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A leaked memo, legal battles and a call-to-action from the Māori king — NZ is on edge
By Emily Clark
As a minor party in New Zealand's governing coalition pushes ahead with a plan to draft a controversial bill on the country's founding documents, Māori leaders have issued a warning.