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Natalie O’Brien is a multi-award winning career journalist who has worked around Australia covering some of the country’s biggest stories from government coverups to sex trafficking, immigration, the environment, police, courts and crime. She was the first Investigations Editor appointed on The Australian Newspaper and was awarded a highly commended award in the Walkley Awards for her story Children Overboard Didn’t Happen. Contact her on natalie.obrien@news.com.au

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EXCLUSIVE, NO NEWS.COM, NO SKY, NO AUS, NO WEST AUS NSW Labor Mp Shaoquett Moselmane with human rights activist Gerry Georgatos on a trip to China in 2015 raising money to facilitate wheelchairs being sent to disabled children in China.

Cops never questioned suspicious ‘Chinese spy’

The AFP’s raid on NSW MP Shaoquett Moselmane has taken a new turn after a Chinese-Australian man from a suspicious WeChat group was linked to their investigation.

Crime in Focus

Visas to Australia are being sold for up to US$10,000 in an international scam.

New $10,000 visa scam to get into Australia

People smugglers and international crime syndicates are charging up to $10,000 for a new visa — which exposes Australia’s weaknesses as thousands are being rorted. This is how it works.

NSW

Criminal legal eagles’ zipper-mouth emoji war

Two of Sydney’s high profile criminal lawyers have gone to war in a defamation case that is set to become a test for how Australians can use emojis such as the zipper-mouth face.

Coronavirus

COVID visa chaos keeps Aussie lovers apart

Sasha and Zaher are among Australia’s COVID-struck lovers, kept apart as the processing times for partner visas blow out to two years.

EXCLUSIVENSW

‘Rats in the ranks’: NSW MP demands mole be found

The leak was deliberate, calculated, and undertaken by those responsible to cause Shaoquett Moselmane humiliation but it also appeared to bring the administration of justice into disrepute.

ExclusiveCrime in Focus

Photo showing Faheem LodhiPhoto supplied.

Aussie terrorist’s bizarre jail perks

He plotted an attack on home soil yet Australia’s first convicted terrorist Faheem Khalid Lodhi has had an easier time behind bars.

News

Lebanese PM, government resign after Beirut explosion disaster

Lebanon descends deeper into chaos after the terrifying Beirut explosion with the government standing down and riots continuing.

ExclusiveCoronavirus

Detainees make shocking threat from Villawood rooftop if they are not released to escape COVID-19

Ex-bikie goes back to the scene of an alleged crime

A former Lone Wolf bikie charged after he staged a headline-grabbing two-day protest at the Villawood detention centre, was released on bail – back to the scene of the alleged crime.

ExclusiveBehind the Scenes

Loose lips sink Aussie drug kingpin’s smuggling operation

This is how a suspected drug smuggler, an off-duty cop and the unguarded chat about a Customs official helped expose a multimillion-dollar drug syndicate raided in Queensland.

ExclusiveTrue Crime

EXCLUSIVE NWK NEWS PREMIUM LOCKED CONTENT, NO AUS, NO SKY, NO WEST AUS, NO NEWS.COM.AU Images taken from ISIS 's shocking new recruitment video "Incite the Believers" urging attack on Australia and the West using fire., ,

Islamic State’s chilling new threat against Australia

Islamic State has released a shocking new propaganda video urging potential jihadi terrorists to use an “ancient weapon” to attack Australia.

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