Guardian Australia makes new editorial hires
Guardian Australia has made several new appointments across its Sydney-based office and its Canberra bureau.
Tom McIlroy has been appointed as chief political correspondent, to be based in Canberra.
His journalistic career spans The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Ballarat Courier, Canberra Times and Houston Chronicle, and he recently published a book on the controversial 1973 purchase of the Jackson Pollock artwork, Blue Poles, by the Australian government.
