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Detectives search home of Sydney nurse filmed in antisemitic video

Strike Force Pearl investigators have scoured Ahmad Rashad Nadir’s home days after footage emerged of him and another nurse allegedly threatening Israeli patients.

  • Kayla Olaya, Amber Schultz and Riley Walter

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Police believe caravan plot linked to ‘orchestrated’ antisemitic attacks as ‘puppet masters’ pull strings

Authorities have defended a decision to stay quiet about the potential terror attack, which may have been targeting the Great Synagogue and the Sydney Jewish Museum.

  • Clare Sibthorpe, Sally Rawsthorne, Perry Duffin and Riley Walter
Powergel explosives are widely used by the mining industry for blasting and tunnelling.

What is Powergel, the ‘high-strength’ explosive that can take out a building?

The explosive discovered in a Sydney caravan is widely used by the mining industry and had the potential to cause a devastating “mass-casualty event”.

  • Riley Walter and Simon Johanson
Police are investigating graffiti sprayed on the Newtown Synagogue on Saturday morning.

Counterterrorism squad called in as Sydney synagogue attacks escalate

Police are hunting two people who they say spray-painted swastika symbols on Newtown Synagogue before using a clear liquid to try to set the building alight.

  • Megan Gorrey
Anthony Flannery has been appointed as NSW Police executive director of public affairs, beginning in April.

‘Twiggy’ Forrest spinner lands $360,000 NSW Police job

Anthony Flannery will be the sixth person in three years to hold the high-profile media role.

  • Amber Schultz
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb with Premier Chris Minns.

Webb gave taxpayer-funded gin to PR firm after ‘professional’ advice

The purchase of 100 bottles of “commissioner’s gin” from the Hope Estate distillery to gift to figures including then Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has become another unwelcome saga for Webb in a year in which she has often dominated headlines for the wrong reasons.

  • Michael McGowan
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Commissioner Karen Webb speaks to the media outside Sydney Police Centre, Surry Hills following the Wakeley stabbing.

Webb has many enemies and they will not stop until they topple her

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb has enjoyed a break from controversy, but her detractors are never far away. 

  • Alexandra Smith
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Police commissioner bans purchase of alcohol for gifts, hospitality

The under-fire Police Commissioner Karen Webb followed in the footsteps of her predecessor in giving alcohol as gifts. 

  • Alexandra Smith
Commissioner Karen Webb speaks to the media outside Sydney Police Centre, Surry Hills following the Wakeley stabbing.

NSW police commissioner failed to declare link to gin supplier

The NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb bought bottles of gin as gifts for visiting dignitaries. 

  • Alexandra Smith, Max Maddison and Megan Gorrey
Premier Chris Minns has sacked one of his parliamentary secretaries after he labelled Police Commissioner Karen Webb a “liar” in parliament

Minns sacks pro-Palestine MP for labelling Karen Webb a ‘liar’

Upper House MP Anthony D’Adam used a late night speech to accuse the NSW Police of using “fear and intimidation as a means of obtaining compliance” against pro-Palestinian protesters in Sydney.

  • Michael McGowan

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