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Art
‘Looney Tunes Jesus’ picture pulled from Sydney exhibition after protests
One of the finalists in a major art prize has been taken off the gallery wall after an intense campaign by Christian activists.
- by Kate McClymont
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Controversial surgeon William Mooney hit with fresh legal action as he leaves court
Mooney had just appeared at the NSW Court of Appeal where the NSW Medical Council was trying to stop him practicing again.
- by Kate McClymont
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NSW councils
One of Sydney’s largest councils implodes amid calls for inquiry
Half of the councillors have complained to the state government about dysfunction under its mayor.
- by Kate McClymont and Ben Cubby
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Courts
‘Masterminds of manipulation’: The collapse of a property empire
One of the nation’s biggest privately owned building companies, Dyldam, lies in financial ruin with feuding between former owners resulting in lawsuits, bankruptcy actions and legal charges.
- by Kate McClymont
‘Game of Thrones’: Council axes 10th CEO in eight years
The spectacular falling out between two Liberal heavyweights over a $537,000 per year post is set for court-ordered mediation.
- by Kate McClymont and Ben Cubby
Former Nine News boss Darren Wick accused by staff of drunken, lecherous behaviour
Current and former staff allege the former head of news and current affairs engaged in “alcohol-fuelled grope sessions” and his drunken, lecherous behaviour was an “open secret”.
- by Kate McClymont
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Investigations
‘Much-loved son’: Rich list family stands by suspected drug kingpin
The father is the epitome of the migrant success story; the son is one of the nation’s most wanted suspected criminals.
- by Nick McKenzie and Kate McClymont
‘Part of this conspiracy’: The Australian journalist at the centre of the Trump trial
The criminal trial of former president Donald Trump has heard much about Australian journalist Dylan Howard’s role in perfecting the dark art of “catch and kill”.
- by Kate McClymont and Cameron Houston
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Crime
The ABC reporter, the underworld postman and the ‘sinister threats’
Award-winning ABC reporter Mahmood Fazal passed on menacing messages from an organised crime gang to journalists, one of whom became so fearful he reported it to police. Fazal denies any wrongdoing.
- by Kate McClymont
Lehrmann faces legal action from ex-landlord over Sydney northern beaches pad
Bruce Lehrmann, who lost a multimillion-dollar defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson last month, had his rent at the property covered by Seven.
- by Michaela Whitbourn and Kate McClymont
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Jones investigation
Alan Jones attends schoolboy reunion as fresh assault allegations emerge
As the broadcaster spent Friday celebrating a premiership win 50 years ago with former players, more men detail fresh allegations that Jones indecently assaulted or groped them.
- by Kate McClymont
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