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How the fake caravan plot exposed divisions between NSW Police and AFP
As politicians and the media fretted over a suspected terror plot, suspicion and secrecy was growing between the law enforcement agencies trying to find the culprits.
- Perry Duffin and Amber Schultz
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‘Worthless tokens’: The crypto coin, a chicken kebab shop and the missing millions
Serial fraudster and former assistant tax commissioner Nick Petroulias and his long-term associate Hussein Faraj are being investigated over their crypto-company.
- Kate McClymont
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Albanese reveals legal proceedings over ‘serious incident’
The prime minister said he contacted Peter Dutton to discuss an alleged terror plot targeting the opposition leader that was revealed on Thursday.
- Matthew Knott
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‘Grave case of hurt feelings’: Mark Latham’s behaviour under investigation by former top cop
Racing NSW has engaged one of Australia’s most senior law enforcement figures to investigate, after the club said one of its senior officials was on the receiving end of “alleged unprovoked verbal abuse”.
- Chris Barrett
NSW Police told to sign NDA as part of caravan investigation
NSW Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson said the AFP made an investigator sign an NDA before receiving details about tip-offs into an explosive-laden caravan.
- Christopher Harris
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One Sydney factory’s answer to foreign interference, narco-subs and people smugglers
Designed to work as a “wolf pack”, groups of the semi-autonomous systems can create permanent surveillance of coastlines over thousands of kilometres.
- Sally Rawsthorne
Man allegedly attempted to open plane door on flight to Sydney
Passengers and crew had to restrain a man from opening the doors of a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Sydney on Saturday.
- Harriet Alexander and Sally Rawsthorne
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- Crime
The Nigerian ‘blood cult’ targeting lonely Australians with romance scams
A Sydney father was part of a Nigerian scam that took millions of dollars off lonely Australians, defrauded businesses and siphoned the money to a terrifying African gang.
- Perry Duffin
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- Crime
Former cop ‘main driver’ of syndicate allegedly manufacturing ‘sophisticated’ machine guns
One of NSW’s most senior detectives described the former Australian Federal Police officer’s alleged offending as “abhorrent”.
- Riley Walter
‘Interrupt, disrupt, expose’: Plan to drive MPs from Sydney’s mosques
A campaign is under way to force government and opposition politicians away from the city’s Islamic community by heckling and filming them.
- Perry Duffin
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