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Matthew Agius

Malta
As seen in: MSN South Africa, Nature, The Guardian, The Guardian Australia, The Independent (UK), ABC News, ABC News (Australia), Euronews, Associated Press, France 24 and
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Doesn't Cover: Celebrity gossip, film and TV

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Matthew Agius’s Biography

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I reported from the Maltese courts for MaltaToday and Illum in both English and Maltese between 2014 and 2024.

In that time I was also commissioned by, or collaborated with, The Associated Press, Euronews, the Guardian, the Sunday Times (UK), the Miami Herald, France 24, TRT World and the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail.

Matthew Agius’s Journalist Portfolio

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Untangling the Mafia State

Untangling the Mafia State

A cautionary tale with no happy ending. Not yet.

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Dubai Unlocked

Dubai Unlocked

Africa Uncensored, Al Jazeera, AZDA TV, Belarusian Investigative Center, BIRD, Buro Media, Civilnet, Context …

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2 men get 40 years each for Malta reporter's car-bomb murder

2 men get 40 years each for Malta reporter's car-bomb murder

A judge in Malta has sentenced two brothers to 40 years in prison each after they pleaded guilty to the car-b…

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Trial begins for bomb slaying of Maltese corruption reporter

Trial begins for bomb slaying of Maltese corruption reporter

VALLETTA, Malta (AP) - The trial of two brothers charged in the car-bomb assassination of a Maltese journalis…

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The fighter pilot, the mercenary boss, and the warlord: a modern Libyan war story | Four Corners

The fighter pilot, the mercenary boss, and the warlord: a modern Libyan war story | Four Corners

In conflict zones around the world, battles are increasingly being fought not just by armies, but by private …

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Investigators uncover roles of mercenaries in UAE-backed Libya helicopter gunship plan

Investigators uncover roles of mercenaries in UAE-backed Libya helicopter gunship plan

The 20 private military contractors (PMCs) who were evacuated from war-torn Libya aboard two Malta-leased RHI…

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Articles

Sodden Mundi Mundi offers music fans complimentary day as sun finally shines on Broken Hill festival

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By Matthew Agius, Matthew Agius
| ABC News (Australia) Verified
Thousands had to be turned away from the Mundi Mundi Bash outback music festival in Broken Hill after record rainfall turned its campground into a field of mud this week. But two relatively dry days — and welcome sunshine for the final day — has seen organisers open the gates for hangers-on to come into the festival free of charge.
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Disability advocate removed from Virgin flight over wheelchair motor dispute

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By Sophie Landau, Matthew Agius
| YourLifeChoices
By Matthew Ward Agius By Sophie Landau Virgin Australia says it is reviewing an incident which left a disability advocate feeling “humiliated” after he was removed from a plane before its departure. Shane Hryhorec, an Adelaide-based disability advocate with C5 incomplete quadriplegia, regularly travels by air for work with his service animal and a wheelchair with a portable electric motor.
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Adelaide bucks national trends to see median house prices rise, now fourth most expensive capital

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By Matthew Agius, Matthew Ward Agius Verified
| ABC News (Australia) Verified
Adelaide's housing market is bucking national trends, with median prices rising 4.8 per cent in the June quarter. According to Domain's latest House Price Report, Adelaide's median house price is now a record $1.125 million, up from $970,165 a year ago. It was the fastest-rising market among Australia's capitals in the past quarter. Dr Nicola Powell, chief of research and economics for Domain, told 891 ABC Adelaide that the city was "bucking the national trend".
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

I have and the memories still haunt me to this day.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

I'm a big Superman fan, so it'd have to be Lois Lane.

What's your favorite social network?

Everybody's on Facebook nowadays and I spend ages on it, but as a journo-Twitter Is Your Friend