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The coastal NSW hotspot that became a prime target of world’s most fearsome drug bosses
For the cartels trying to feed Australia’s ravenous appetite for cocaine, lucrative drug smuggling missions are almost the perfect crime.
- Sally Rawsthorne and Perry Duffin
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Uncertainty, trepidation and lawsuits grow as Trump unleashes ‘shock and awe’
Donald Trump’s pardon of almost all convicted January 6 rioters sparked outrage from lawmakers and police, and made some Republicans uncomfortable.
- Farrah Tomazin and Michael Koziol
Cops' dangerous dive after cartel diver drowns retrieving cocaine under ship
Police divers inspect a sea chest after cocaine was hidden in the hull of a bulk carrier in Newcastle port in 2022. A Brazilian cartel diver drowned trying to retrieve the packages and police showed footage to the court of the dangerous dive.
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Samantha Murphy’s alleged killer fined over drug-driving offences
Patrick Stephenson has been convicted over a drunken motorcycle crash that occurred months before the Ballarat mother’s alleged murder.
- Melissa Cunningham
I’ve covered many tragic funerals. These are the details I always jot down
Hours after someone dies in dramatic or horrific fashion, journalists appear on a doorstep, hoping we’ll be allowed inside to ask a shocked and grieving person to talk about their dead relative.
- Konrad Marshall
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State’s top doctor raises alarm as Sydney vapers develop opioid addiction
Dr Kerry Chant pushed the premier to think beyond pill-testing after young Sydneysiders unknowingly inhaled synthetic opioids through vapes.
- Daniel Lo Surdo
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‘Doing a tester’: The man who gave a sex worker fentanyl thinking it was cocaine
Shadi Salameh told a court that he was less “morally blameworthy” because he didn’t realise the drug was the synthetic opiate.
- Sally Rawsthorne
Thousands more face prosecution under LNP’s crackdown on drug use
The number of people given a warning or ordered to undergo treatment for drugs soared in the final months of the Labor government. The LNP will not be so “soft”.
- Sean Parnell
What’s in that white powder? Inside Victoria’s first pill testing site
From this weekend, festival-goers will be able to get their drugs tested confidentially to make sure they are taking what they think they are taking.
- Marta Pascual Juanola
Ezra Mam issued with NRL breach notice
The NRL has issued the Brisbane Broncos star with a breach notice after he pleaded guilty to drug driving and driving without a licence earlier this month.
- Alex Condon
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