Eddie Obeid’s corruption trial has been shown handwritten lawyer notes suggesting the former NSW Labor kingpin had inside knowledge his coal-rich farmland would soon be opened to mining exploration by then resources minister Ian Macdonald.
A staffer for banking giant Lehman Brothers approached a mining company in 2008 trying to broker a deal to team up in bidding for mining licences, the Eddie Obeid trial has heard.
Sydney mother Fiona Barbieri has walked free from prison following what has been described as a “deplorable” decision by parole authorities.
The widow of slain ex-bikie boss Mick Hawi says the evil coward “who decided to play god” over the killing will suffer eternal punishment.
After deliberating for five days, a NSW Supreme Court jury has found two Sydney men accused of the notorious 2018 hit on bikie Mick Hawi not guilty of murder.
Exactly what the troubled brother of Australian cricket star Usman Khawaja wrote in UNSW notebook to frame a colleague with false terrorism claims has been revealed for the first time.
Fiona Barbieri has been granted parole after apologising to the family of the police officer she and her teenage son killed during a violent standoff at their squalid Sydney home.
A southern Sydney man charged with the murder of his elderly parents has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. David Reid killed his 71-year-old mother Dianna and 75-year-old father Victor inside their Sutherland family home last year.
A Sydney jury has begun deliberating at the murder trial of two men accused of gunning down Sydney bikie Mahmoud ‘Mick’ Hawi more than two years ago.
A coal company boss says the identities of the land holders who owned prime mining territory weren’t known. Prosecutors say Labor’s Eddie Obeid’s family were among them.
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