By Blair Wise

Blair Wise is the 2026 Caroline Jones cadet. The Newcastle University graduate was the 2025 Kennedy Foundation student journalist of the year. He’s a Dunghutti man from Kempsey and has had work featured in the Newcastle Herald, Vice, Crikey, National Indigenous Times, Indigenous X and the ABC.

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