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A 43-year-old man has been arrested over the alleged vandalism.

Man arrested over police memorial vandalism, minister calls for ‘social harmony’

A memorial dedicated to fallen police officers in the Domain was significantly damaged over the long weekend in an act the premier has labelled “disgusting”.

  • Jessica McSweeney, Riley Walter and Nick Newling

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Port of Newcastle

The coastal NSW hotspot that became a prime target of world’s most fearsome drug bosses

For the cartels trying to feed Australia’s ravenous appetite for cocaine, lucrative drug smuggling missions are almost the perfect crime.

  • Sally Rawsthorne and Perry Duffin
Offensive graffiti sprayed on the front window of Jo Haylen’s electorate office on Saturday.

Minister’s Sydney office vandalised in ‘cowardly’ attack

It’s the fourth time the inner west office has been targeted. In another incident, a cafe in Sydney’s east has been defaced with an offensive slur.

  • Chris Barrett
Koby Weaver (right) allegedly stomped a police officer’s skull with such “extreme force” it audibly reverberated off a road way in video played in Downing Centre Local Court.

Court shown sickening footage of alleged stomp on off-duty cop’s head

The “significant force” used gave a magistrate no option but to keep one of the accused behind bars, leaving the 20-year-old and his mother in tears.

  • Perry Duffin
The statue of Captain James Cook in Randwick has been vandalised for the second time in 12 months.

‘Absolute mess’: Captain Cook statue vandalised ahead of Australia Day

The statue in Sydney’s east was splashed in red paint and had its hand and nose knocked off, the second time it has been defaced in 12 months.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
A young man is fighting for life after a coward punch in Newtown

Two charged over attack on off-duty cop in Sydney’s inner west

A group of men allegedly kicked and punched the officer in the head, knocking him unconscious, after he walked down Newtown’s busy nightlife strip with a colleague.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Sally Rawsthorne
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Premier Chris Minns has flagged plans to overhaul existing racial vilification laws.

Religious groups split on changes to hate-speech laws

Australia’s peak Jewish body welcomes any reforms as long overdue, but the Anglican and Catholic churches warn it could criminalise expressions of religious doctrine.

  • Michael McGowan
Second man arrested after alleged attempt to set religious building at Newtown alight – Strike Force Pearl. 23 January 2025. Photo NSW Police

Man Tasered during arrest over Sydney antisemitic attack

A second man has been arrested for the arson and graffiti attack on a synagogue in Newtown.

  • Perry Duffin
Comanchero bikie chief Mahmoud “Mick” Hawi; a ute torched in the Woollahra antisemitic attack.

Son of slain bikie boss charged over Woollahra antisemitic attack

Adam Hawi, son of murdered former Comanchero boss Mick Hawi, can be revealed to be among those charged over a spate of antisemitic attacks across the city.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
The former home of prominent Jewish Australian Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin was targeted in a firebombing.

Nine arrests, more than a dozen attacks: Sydney’s wave of antisemitic horror

Businesses, homes and synagogues have been defaced with graffiti and set alight, in a series of attacks escalating in frequency and severity.

  • Amber Schultz

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