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Cydonee Mardon has more than 20 years experience as a journalist, specialising in crime reporting. She has also worked as a sub-editor and covered court, health, politics and general news on country, suburban and regional newspapers and wire services. The highlight of her career so far remains her current job and covering the four-month trial of backpacker serial killer Ivan Milat in 1996.

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Con jobs: Aussies target of WFH ad scam

The Australian Federal Police have warned of an aggressive scam targeting people looking for flexible, remote or part-time work. Find out what to look out for.

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NCA 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION, Labor Bus. April 19, 2025. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the campaign trail in New South Wales. The Prime Minister and Minister Jason Clare attend the Sydney Royal Easter Show, held every year during the Easter period in Sydney Olympic Park in the electorate of Reid. Picture: Mark Stewart / NewsWire

PM left horrified by savage Sydney crime

Sydney has seen its share of violence over the years yet the city, including Anthony Albanese, remains in shock at the savagery of a woman’s kidnap and killing which the PM described as “just horrific’’.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos APRIL 18: Police and Forensics are at the home on Edward Street in Bankstown, where a crime scene has been established after a 45year old woman was kidnapped from her home, her 2 sons bashed with a baseball bat now in hospital, late last night. The woman later found deceased in a burnt out car on Welfare street in Beverly Hills. A body has been found inside a car that was engulfed by flames in SydneyÃs south. Emergency services were called to Welfare Ave in Beverly Hills following reports of a car fire about 11.30pm on Thursday. Fire and Rescue NSW extinguished the blaze, but the car was destroyed, an investigation is underway. Photo: Gaye Gerard / NewsWire

Did Asian crime lords order kidnap killing that’s shocked Sydney?

Detectives investigating the savage abduction and killing of a woman and beating of an eight year old child in Sydney’s south west have launched a massive manhunt for the evil perpetrators of a crime that’s horrified the city.

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Police in the Beverley Hills street on Friday morning.

Sydney’s brutal new low: CCTV shows woman’s kidnap killing

Shocking footage has captured the moment masked killers brandishing a gun and baseball bat broke into a Sydney home, assaulted a child before kidnapping a woman and leaving her for dead in a burning car. See the vision.

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WEEKEND TELEGRAPH 18TH NOVEMBERPictured at his home in Beecroft is Mick Duke.Mick is pushing for reforms to enforce stricter sentences on offenders causing death on the roads through negligence.MickÃs wife Jo was killed by a driver who is a repeat offender but only received a 2 year jail term.Picture: Richard Dobson

‘Prolonged suffering’: No justice for crash victim families

For Mick Duke the delay in the release of a long-awaited Law Reform Commission report into serious crash legislation is another stab in the heart after he lost his beloved wife Jo.

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Charlotte living through lives she saves: Parents’ tireless mission

Matt and Kelly O’Brien said losing their 12-year-old Charlotte to suicide caused ‘unimaginable heartbreak’ which the family is now “channelling” to help other children suffering at the hands of bullies.

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GOULBURN, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. JUNE 21, 2024. NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott receives the Commissioners Valour Award from the NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb during a ceremony welcoming 170 new probationary constables as part of the Class 362 Attestation Parade at the NSW Police Academy, McDermott Drive, Goulburn, in NSW, NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott shot and killed the Bondi Junction shopping centre stabber. Picture: POOL/NewsWire/ Mick Tsikas

Doing their best to carry on: Webb honours Bondi victims, families

The state’s top cop says the trauma of the Bondi Junction stabbing spree will never be forgotten, as she joins hero officer Inspector Amy Scott in a special tribute one year on.

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The lonelisness of a hero cop: For Ben Besant, top right, the man who shot dead Man Monis bringing to an end the Lindt siege 10 years ago, the period between the fatal shooting and the coronial inquest was a desperately lonely one.His heart goes out to Inspector Amy Scott, maibn picture, the officer who brought an end to the Bondi Junction shopping centre 12 months ago, bottom right, who is about to face public scrutiny of her actions that day. Pictures: News Corp/Supplied

Loneliness of a hero: Why Lindt siege cop feels for Amy Scott

Lindt siege hero Ben Besant knows all too well the noise within, the silence outside, and the agonising wait for an inquest for cops like Bondi Junction hero cop Amy Scott, whose every move will come under the microscope, after a very necessary silence.

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Bondi surf life saver Andy Reid speaks, right, speaks of his experience during the Bondi Junction massacre, inset, one year ago, when Joel Cauchi, left, went on a stabbing rampage. AMonmg the victims wre his running buddy, Ashley Good, who thrust her baby, Harriett, into the hands of strangers to protect her from the knife-wielding man who ultimately took her life. Pictures: Jonathan Ng/Supplied

Bodies, blood and an empty pram: What Andy Reid can’t forget

Andy Reid rushed around Bondi Junction shopping centre trying to save stabbing victims, with no clue his running buddy Ash Good was inside. On a grim anniversary, the memories still haunt him.

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Josh Curran on helping young kids escape the cycle of crime

‘It’s not too late’: Bulldogs star’s off-field goal to tackle youth crime

NRL star Josh Curran isn’t planning on hanging up his footy boots any time soon, but he has grand plans for when he does … and they might surprise his legion of young fans.

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