The Editorial Team

Heath is a parochial Novocastrian and senior reporter at news.com.au. He started off at country newspapers in 2016, before moving to Sydney and working for Fairfax, the ABC and News Corp. He’s covered almost everything, but is most passionate about reporting on the realm of court and crime.

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The house in Ranora St, Russell IslandPolice and emergency services at the crime scene in Ranora St, Russell IslandPolice have shot a man multiple times on Russell Island. Itâs believed the man was shot after coming at officers with a weapon around 9.15am.Sunday September 20. 2020. Picture, John Gass

Cops shoot man, 30, dead on Qld island

A man in his 30s has died after he was shot multiple times by police during a confrontation in Queensland’s southeast on Sunday morning.

BreakingHealth

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 19, 2020: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews reacts during a press conference in Melbourne, Victoria. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Daniel Pockett

Victoria’s lowest case number in months

Victoria has recorded its lowest tally of new coronavirus cases in three months, bringing its 14-day average down to a welcome new low.

Food Warnings

WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. MUST TALK WITH PIC ED JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING,., A Korean BBQ restaurant in Strathfield has been fined $5,000 for having an open buffet where diners shared crockery, cutlery and food., When SafeWork NSW inspectors visited Butchers Buffet on 11 September, they observed patrons accessing plates, condiments, serving utensils, bowls and trays of food as well as shared utensils on tables., There was no safety marshal in place or stated limits on the maximum number of customers allowed on the premises. Chairs and tables were not adequately spaced, and CCTV footage showed patrons were not physically distancing when helping themselves at the buffet., SafeWork NSW Director Work Health and Safety Metro, Sarina Wise, said these sorts of breaches defy logic., “Self-serve buffets and pandemics simply don’t mix, creating a source of potentially contaminated items,” Ms Wise said., “No self-serve buffet style food service areas are allowed including communal bar snacks and communal condiments., “Sharing items on a buffet is clearly a direct line for COVID transmission.”

Dob in a diner for virus breaches

A Korean BBQ venue in Sydney’s inner west was among 23 venues fined by authorities in a crackdown on eateries flouting COVID-19 rules.

NSW / ACT Courts & Law

Ross McCarty enters the downing centre today .picture John Grainger

Boozy bank robber lived double life

A ex-floor trader who would get sloshed on his lunch breaks and commit bank robberies in the 1970s has finally been sentenced for his crimes.

NSW & ACT

Police are appealing for the public’s help after a teenager was struck by a motorcyclist in the state’s mid-north coast., , About 3.30pm Monday 14 September 2020, a 13-year-old girl was crossing the road outside a school on Nicholson Street, South Kempsey when she was knocked to the ground by an unknown rider., , Police have been told the teenager was hit when the rider, who was travelling on the footpath attempted to enter the roadway. After falling from the motorcycle, the rider fled the scene., , The girl sustained minor injuries including a laceration to one of her arms. Picture: NSW Police

Moment motorbike slams into schoolgirl

Police are hunting a motorcycle rider who left a 13-year-old injured after a dramatic crash on the NSW mid-north coast.

NSW / ACT Courts & Law

Dean Fletcher, 33, has been jailed after he trespassed at the Prime Minister's private home as part of a politically motivated prank. Picture: Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/shutupreadthis)

PM protester planned to poo in pool

A protester arrested for trespassing on Scott Morrison’s private home has returned to court to appeal his “East Berlin”-style jail sentence.

Courts & Law

Pic of Mahmoud Mick Hawi entering King st court today.The former bikie boss was to retrialled for murder. He is on bail under new bail Act. Pleaded guilty to manslaughter and as a result, may not have serve any more time.

Crook ‘no better’ than bikie hitman

A man has been sentenced to jail for his role in the gangland assassination of former Comanchero president Mahmoud “Mick” Hawi.

At Work

A New South Wales Police officer (Senior Constable Christopher Hurtak) drew his gun on a disability pensioner (Lytha Owlstara) and capsicum sprayed her dog, in what was later described by a magistrate as a

Woman’s big payout over cop’s gun threat

A woman who was left mentally scarred after a police officer pulled a gun on her during a dramatic traffic stop has been awarded a six-figure payout.

NSW / ACT Courts & Law

Shocking new footage shows a violent attack on a pregnant woman at a cafe in Sydney's Parramatta. A heavily pregnant woman who was allegedly subjected to a terrifying attack from a man as she sat with friends in a Western Sydney cafe claims he screamed at her “Muslims raped my mum”.

Petty reason for bashing pregnant woman

It was the attack that shocked a nation – a pregnant woman bashed at random at a Sydney cafe. Now her tormentor has told a court why he did it.

NSW / ACT Courts & Law

Confirmed photo of Olga Edwards and John Edwards.

We ‘wrote off’ mum’s fears, cops admit

Cops have admitted they wrote off mum’s complaint about her husband before he stalked their children to their home and shot them dead.

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