A junior staffer who was harassed by then chief-of-staff Chris Smith at her Channel 9 leaving do has spoken out for the first time about the 1998 incident that left her shocked and disgusted.

Local general-duties police officers formed a heavily armed “extraction team” to rescue their fallen colleagues, driving on to the Train family’s western Darling Downs property in the vehicle of the trio’s murdered neighbour while under fire.

More than 140 children under the age of four have been exposed to potentially toxic vape poisoning in the past 12 months and, shockingly, 17 of those were under 12 months of age. 

And firefighting hero Shane Fitzsimmons believes his job at Resilience NSW was doomed the moment the first flood arrived this year as an ill-prepared State government looked for someone to blame.

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