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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NSW & ACT

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos AUGUST 16: Asylum seeker protesters outside Kirribilli House, Kirribilli, Sydney.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw

‘We are humans too’: Protest at ScoMo’s

Protesters have descended on the PM’s Sydney residence and demanded he face them, holding signs saying “Come outside and learn the truth”.

Design

Sydney Future Project 2040 for Sunday Telegraph. View of Badgerys creek, AEROTROPOLIS. MUST CREDIT 3D render created by Arterra Interactive

Chance to name new Australian city

Punters have been called on to help name Australia’s newest city, which is set to pop up around a new airport.

NSW & ACT

Pictures supplied by Mark Rapley Mark Rapley & Chantelle Doyle from Social Media., Chantelle Doyle was attacked by a shark at Shelley beach near Port Macquarie and her partner Mark Rapley is believed to have fought the shark off.

‘Hero’ surfer punches shark to save wife

A man has been praised as a hero after he jumped onto the back of a great white shark that attacked his wife on NSW’s mid north coast on Saturday.

Health Problems

A scientist works at the mAbxience biosimilar monoclonal antibody laboratory plant in Garin, Buenos Aires province, on August 14, 2020, where an experimental coronavirus vaccine will be produced for Latin America. - Argentina will manufacture while Mexico will pack and distribute in Latin America, except of Brazil, the vaccine against COVID-19 developed by the University of Oxford and the AstraZeneca laboratory. (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA / AFP)

Australia in ‘advanced’ talks for vaccine

Australia is in “advanced negotiations” to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine here, it has been confirmed, after reports a deal is “days away”.

VIC

Fatal public housing building fire. A child died after a flat caught alight in public housing flats on the corner of Nicholson and Clauscen Sts. Fitzroy North. Firemen inside the burnt out flat on the top floor. Picture : Ian Currie

Boy, 3, dies after unit blaze

Neighbours and emergency services have been praised for their brave attempt to save the life of a three-year-old boy caught up in a fire on Saturday.

VIC

GENERIC: Ambulance, Geelong, Ambulance Victoria, Paramedic, Emergency Services. Picture: Stephen Harman

Driver dead after car hits tree

A man has died after his car left the road and crashed into a tree. Police are now calling for witnesses to come forward as they investigate.

BreakingCourts & Law

Copy pic of Caroline Lovell. FINDING into the death of 36-year-old Caroline Lovell who died from complications following a home birth in January 2012.

Midwives charged over fatal homebirth

Two women have been charged over an allegedly botched home birth in Melbourne where the mother died of blood loss.

NSW / ACT Courts & Law

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH SPECIAL. Shoppers fight over toilet rolls in Woolworths Chullora as the Coronavirus craziness hits new levels. Picture Twitter

Toilet paper brawlers’ curious strategy

A mother-and-daughter duo who were found guilty of a fight over toilet paper that went viral online are appealing their sentence – but won’t call new evidence.

NSW / ACT Courts & Law

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos AUGUST, 13, Anthony Joseph Mowad leaves the Downing Centre Court in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett

Men held hostage over unpaid rent: court

Two men were allegedly detained in a Sydney home for up to half an hour as a landlord attempted to force his tenant to pay him back.

NSW / ACT Courts & Law

Sydney teacher Monica Young in happier times with her fiance and his family before she was charged with the alleged sexual assault of a young male student. Picture: Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/moeyy.cuz)

‘Sex’ teacher: What CCTV allegedly shows

A “foolish” Sydney teacher who denies sexually assaulting a student was captured on CCTV with him – but there’s dispute on what it shows.

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