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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Design

Sydney Metro construction work deep under the city has revealed a view of Sydney never seen before., , , , Workers have finished digging a 19 metre long escalator tunnel to create one of the entrances to the new Martin Place metro station., , , , Minister for Transport Andrew Constance said the milestone has exposed a view of Sydney Tower and the MLC Centre – from 19 metres deep under Martin Place. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Supplied

Metro works reveal iconic new view

Commuters leaving one of Sydney’s new underground train stations will be greeted with a fresh view of a city icon.

Health Problems

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 19: Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton and Heath Minister Jenny Mikakaos wear face masks as they walk in to the daily briefing on July 19, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitchell shire are currently in lockdown following the rise in COVID-19 cases through community transmissions. The new restrictions came into effect on Thursday 9 July, with residents in lockdown areas under stay at home orders until 19 August. People are only able to leave home for exercise, work, buy essential items including food or to access childcare and healthcare. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

Where Melbourne’s cases are spreading

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has revealed 80 per cent of virus cases have been spread in one main way, as the states cases jump by 363.

UpdatedNSW

SUPPLIED STILLS - More than 20 riot police, offices with dog handlers and a helicopter police took two hours to break up a party of more than 60 revellers resulting in fines totalling $60,000 fines for flouting covid-19 restrictions at a house in Schofields, North West Sydney. Supplied to Danielle Gusmaroli,

Raucous party ‘put whole state at risk’

A drunken party in Sydney, which has led to more than $60,000 in fines for breaching coronavirus rules, “put the whole state at risk”, an MP says.

NSW / ACT Courts & Law

Xiaoran Shi ( white top) at the downing centre today for sentencing over a vandalism charge

Greens staffer cops it for defacing statue

A Greens staffer deliberately “lit a match” under racial tensions in Australia when she defaced a Captain Cook statue, a judge says.

VIC Courts & Law

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 16, 2020: Four stowaways who attempted to enter Adelaide on a train were escorted by police at Adelaide Airport after staying at The Pullman Hotel for extradition on a flight to Melbourne this evening. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Naomi Jellicoe

Victorian virus stowaways sent packing

Four men who tried to stowaway in a freight train from Melbourne to Perth were sent back after a court appearance in Adelaide.

UpdatedNational

A man is dead after being shot by police who arrived on the scene of a brutal, “frenzied attack”

Moment cops reach Melbourne attacker

A man has been shot dead by police in Melbourne after “seriously assaulting” a woman known to him, leaving her with horrific injuries.

NSW / ACT Courts & Law

Lawyer Michael Anthony Croke leaves the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney, Monday, February 3, 2020. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

Sydney lawyer jailed over drug cash plot

A Kings Cross lawyer has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for guiding a criminal enterprise seeking to retrieve $702,000 in drug money from police.

UpdatedNSW & ACT Crime