Michael E. Miller

Sydney

Foreign correspondent covering Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

Education: New York University, dual MA in journalism and Latin American studies; University of Chicago, BA in philosophy

Michael E. Miller is The Washington Post's first Sydney bureau chief. Before joining The Post in 2015, he covered South Florida and the Caribbean for the Miami New Times. He has reported from almost a dozen countries and won several national journalism prizes, including the National Press Foundation's Feddie Reporting Award and three Sigma Delta Chi awards for excellence from the Society of Professional Journalists.
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Can you stop a teen from using TikTok? Australia is about to find out.

Australia passed a law banning children under 16 from using social media apps like TikTok and Snapchat. Whether it can be enforced remains in question.

November 28, 2024
A Sydney teenager checks social media on his phone this month.

    Can you stop teens from using TikTok? Australia is trying.

    Australia passed a law Nov. 28 banning children under 16 from using social media apps like TikTok and Snapchat. Whether it can be enforced remains in question.

    November 28, 2024

    New Zealanders are marching, performing haka to protest divisive bill

    The Treaty Principles Bill seeks to revise New Zealand’s foundational agreement with Maori people and is hugely unpopular, with even the prime minister deriding it.

    November 15, 2024
    Maori people on the third of a nine-day hikoi, or march, to New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, to protest the Treaty Principles Bill on Wednesday.

    New Zealand government apologizes for ‘horrific’ abuse in state care

    Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said sorry to some 200,000 survivors of physical and sexual abuse in institutions, which an inquiry called a “national disgrace.” 

    November 12, 2024
    New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon talks Tuesday with abuse survivor Whiti Ronaki, left, as Laura Cherrington interprets.

    Australia is still logging the parks meant to become a koala reserve

    Australia’s koala population is endangered but efforts to create a new sanctuary are contentious, with environmentalists and the forestry industry at loggerheads.

    November 9, 2024
    Lee, 5, during feeding time at the breeding program in Guulabaa.

      Logging threatens promised Great Koala National Park

      Australia’s Labor Party vowed to create a koala sanctuary in New South Wales to protect the endangered marsupials, but the park is proving contentious.

      November 9, 2024

      With Trump’s win, Australia worries AUKUS may come under new scrutiny

      Australia has already spent billions on the nuclear-powered submarine deal agreed with the Biden administration, and fears President-elect Trump might disrupt that.

      November 8, 2024
      Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stands in front of the Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, in June.

      Australia, the land of iron ore exports, faces a green reckoning

      Iron ore miners in South Australia are moving to produce more environmentally friendly steel in the hope they can keep being a top supplier to mineral-hungry China.

      October 26, 2024
      Whyalla's steelworks glows at night. The struggling steel town in South Australia is hoping to become a green iron hub by combining iron ore deposits, abundant renewable energy, and green hydrogen from a state-owned plant.

      Australian senator heckles Charles: ‘You are not my king’

      Indigenous lawmaker Lidia Thorpe was removed from an event at Australia’s Parliament after accusing the British royal family of “genocide” and stealing land.

      October 21, 2024
      Sen. Lidia Thorpe, an Aboriginal lawmaker, was removed from an event at Australia’s Parliament in Canberra on Oct. 21 after heckling King Charles III.

      For Charles’s first visit as king, Australians are royally unimpressed

      King Charles III is set to make his longest trip abroad since starting cancer treatment, but Australians are not exactly excited about his imminent arrival.

      October 17, 2024
      Schoolchildren wave Australian flags as Prince Charles visits Kilkenny Primary School in Adelaide, Australia, in 2012. Now king, he is set to visit the country with Queen Camilla starting Friday.