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Megan PalinSenior Journalist

Megan Palin is an award-winning Australian journalist and US Correspondent based in New York. She has covered stories ranging from the 2020 US presidential election and the coronavirus pandemic to the Harvey Weinstein trial and the Lindt Cafe siege Inquest. Megan was highly commended as Journalist of the Year at the national Mumbrella Publish Awards for leading investigations into Australian Federal Police suicides; human trafficking in the US; and for an expose on a serial rapist. She also won a News Feature Writer of the Year award and was a national finalist for Outstanding News reporting.

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South Australian police badge. photo Calum Robertson

Cop’s last message before death

A SOUTH Australia police officer posted to Facebook then went to a hospital and took his own life.

Two new messages of condolensce were placed on the Light pole in Victoria St Kings X where posters and flowers were regularly placed for Thomas Kelly and Daniel Christie. The Sunday Telegraph observed passerbys to see how many people stopped to read the messages and poster. On average only 1 in every 12-15 persons stopped to look. Most seemed to pass without a care or had no idea that the messages and posters were on the light pole they were passing in Victoria St Kings X.

Laws push violence into suburbs

IT’S long been suspected that Sydney’s lockout laws have caused the violence that once plagued Kings Cross to spill into the suburbs. Now there’s proof.

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Skin of a saltwater crocodile before he is moved into a new pen at Crocodylus Park.

Two crocs stolen from Sydney zoo

TWO crocodiles, known as Snap and Crackle, have been abducted from a Sydney zoo.

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News .Emergency services search for the body of a five-year-old boy who drowned in the Murray River at Moama. Saturday, March .Supplied

‘He was so little, it was awful’

EMERGENCY workers have described the moment they today found the body of a boy, 5, in the Murray River after his mother allegedly drowned him.

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People enjoy an early morning swim as clouds hover over Bondi Beach, Bondi, Sydney, Australia, 04 March 2017. Photo by Brianne Makin

Australia’s wild weather weekend

HEAVY rain, flash flooding, high temperatures and a possible cyclone. Australia is in for a wild weekend of weather.

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Turkeys circle dead cat

Why are these turkeys doing?

FOOTAGE of a flock of turkeys repeatedly walking in perfect circles around a dead cat has sent the internet into a spin.

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This handout photo released by the Australian Federal Police on February 6, 2017 shows a policeman guarding a yacht from which cocaine was seized on the New South Wales coast by the Australian Federal Police. Australia has made its largest cocaine haul ever after seizing a yacht carrying 1.4 tonnes of the drug with an estimated street value of Aus$312 million (US$239 million). The boat was stopped off the New South Wales coast on February 2 and six men were arrested, police said on February 6, following a two-and-a-half year joint investigation between Australia and New Zealand. / AFP PHOTO / Australian Federal Police / STR / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - NO ARCHIVES

AFP boss to install ‘welfare officers’

AFP agents have come forward in their dozens to reveal a mental health crisis within the organisation. The commissioner has ordered “immediate” changes.

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FOR QUEER FILM FESTIVAL, Sistagirls

‘There must be something in the water’

ON A remote island in the far north of Australia lives the largest transgender community in the country. The mostly indigenous sistagirls no longer want to hide.

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A civil rights organisation has called on Amazon Australia to pull 'anti-semitic' books from its site.

Books Amazon Australia should pull

AMAZON Australia — an arm of the world’s biggest online book seller — is being slammed for promoting and profiting from the sale of “Holocaust handbooks”.

Former West Coast Eagles AFL player Ben Cousins arrives at the Fremantle Magistrates Court in Perth, Friday, Jan. 20, 2016. Cousins has been handed a three-hour trial date for June 9 after he appeared in court over an allegation he was in possession of meth in June last year. (AAP Image/Richard Wainwright) NO ARCHIVING

Ben Cousins refused bail

TROUBLED former AFL star Ben Cousins has been refused bail after he was charged with a fresh string of offences including “aggravated stalking”.

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