Jade Macmillan is the ABC's North America bureau chief, based in Washington DC. Jade joined the ABC in 2008, and has previously been a political reporter in the Parliament House bureau in Canberra, and a journalist and producer in Sydney and Western Australia. Follow her on Twitter @JadeMacmillan1.
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