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Samantha Barlow left the NSW Police, where she was once touted as a potential first female commissioner, due to Holohan’s attack.

Thug back on the streets as government abandons challenge to parole

The early release of a drug addict who bashed a female police office senseless has raised new doubts about NSW’s parole system.

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Folbigg said it was a “travesty” the process for receiving an ex gratia payment had been so complex.

Once branded a killer, Kathleen Folbigg says what happened next rubbed salt in her wounds

After spending more than a third of her life behind bars, Kathleen Folbigg says she still faces an agonising fight.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
From councils to the Bear Pit.

The path to parliament runs through councils. Here’s why the Liberal blunder matters

The local government nomination debacle has possibly derailed what could have been the next generation of NSW parliamentarians for at least four years.

  • Kayla Olaya
Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton in 1982, Chris Dawson in 2022, and Kathleen Folbigg in 2003.

Inside the push to scrap NSW’s ‘no body, no parole’ laws

The laws were rushed through parliament after Chris Dawson’s murder conviction. Kathleen Folbigg and Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton say they are dangerous.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
NSW Premier Chris Minns announced tough new bail laws after Molly Ticehurst’s death.

Bail decisions set for overhaul as Ticehurst investigation launched

The NSW government will probe whether Molly Ticehurst was offered “intruder proofing” to her home in the weeks before she was killed.

  • Christopher Harris
The Forensic Medicine and Coroners Court in Lidcombe.

‘Fundamental change’: Blueprint for Coroners Court shakeup revealed

Regional magistrates would no longer act as part-time coroners under a major modernisation that would create a standalone Coroners Court.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
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ICAC said the findings were “not so serious as to merit criminal punishment”.

Vote to block extra ICAC powers likely to come down to the wire

A push to block the anti-corruption watchdog’s request for extra powers will likely come down to one or two Upper House MPs.

  • Alexandra Smith

Gay conversion law would ban suppression of gender identity

The NSW government’s plans to ban gay conversion practices will be extended to include making it illegal to change or suppress a person identifying as trans or gender diverse.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
NSW Premier Chris Minns is staring down resistance from local mayors and MPs to plans for higher density in Sydney’s inner suburbs.

Minns faces internal resistance to higher density in inner suburbs

While Premier Chris Minns has stressed building heights must “go up” in well-connected areas, some MPs are urging caution.

  • Michael Koziol and Michael McGowan
Kathleen Folbigg, pictured in May 2003, was convicted of killing her children.

MPs invoke Lindy Chamberlain in calling for Kathleen Folbigg’s release

Attorney-General Michael Daley is resisting calls to free Folbigg from prison after an inquiry heard her four children may have died of natural causes.

  • Michaela Whitbourn

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