Liam Mendes

Liam is a journalist with the NSW bureau of The Australian. He started his journalism career as a photographer before freelancing for the NZ Herald, news.com.au and the Daily Telegraph. Liam was News Corp Australia’s Young Journalist of the Year in 2022 and was awarded a Kennedy Award for coverage of the NSW floods. He has also previously worked as a producer for Channel Seven’s investigative journalism program 7News Spotlight. He can be contacted at MendesL@theaustralian.com.au or Liam.Mendes@protonmail.com.

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FEES APPLY. 5 April 2024. Chief Territory Minister Eva Lawler addresses media at Alice Springs Police station. Photo: Grenville Turner / Supplied

Extra police head to red centre

Almost two dozen South Australian police officers will be sent to central Australia after the implementation of a youth curfew in Alice Springs.

Liam Mendes

EXCLUSIVENation

Managing Director of Facebook Australia and New Zealand, William Easton outside his in Balgowlah Heights. February 19, 2021. Photo: Rhett Wyman/AFR

Meta under pressure as NT violence explodes

Meta Australia’s boss must take action to remove content that is putting Indigenous children at risk amid a violent crime wave in Alice Springs, child protection experts and the Coalition warn.

JESS MALCOLM and Liam Mendes

exclusivePolitics

22-02-2024 - Youths in Alice Springs drive a stolen Toyota Hilux through town at 4am. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

Tech titan Meta guilty in NT youth crime crisis: Chief Minister

Eva Lawler has written to Meta Australia’s managing director accusing it of ‘encouraging and reinforcing’ youth crime among some of the country’s most vulnerable children seeking social media fame.

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NORTHERN TERRITORYNation

Alice crackdown may be broadened

An extension of the 14-day youth lockdown in Alice Springs is not being ruled out, as the Northern Territory government said it would continue to come up with a longer-term solution.

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CRIMENation

26-02-2024 - Anthony Kenny was locked up on a drink driving charge and refused bail by police. It took 11 days before he was brought before a Judge, who said it was a Ã¢â¬Åhuman rights issue of significant proportionÃ¢â¬Â. His grandfather Mick Liddle came to court multiple times, only to be turned away. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

‘Human rights victim’ charged in fatal hit and run in Alice

Anthony James Kenny waited 11 days to get a judge in Alice Springs’ overcrowded courts to consider his bail application for drink driving charges.

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‘Enough is enough’Indigenous

Alice anarchy sparks night-time lockdown

The besieged Northern Territory Labor government has implemented a curfew in Alice Springs for anyone under 18 as the PM faces pressure to return after startling footage of a rioting mob emerges.

Liam Mendes

NTIndigenous

## EXCLUSIVE for The Australian ONLY ## 04-12-19 - Constable Zach Rolfe, 28, charged with one count of murder over the death of indigenous man Kumanjayi Walker in Yuendumu. Picture By Ryan Osland

Police awards are racist: ICAC

The chief of the Northern Territory’s corruption watchdog has declared mock awards issued within the territory police’s elite police unit ‘are racist towards First Nations people’.

Liam Mendes and Paige Taylor

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Need help with police probe? Call in the cops

The NT ICAC has called on the territory’s police to help investigate accusations of racism within the force’s elite police unit, citing a lack of resources to conduct its own investigation independently.

Liam Mendes

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L-R, NT Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence Steve Edgington with friend and business partner Jason Newman who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault on his wife. Picture - Supplied

CLP’s legal spokesman resigns

NT shadow minister for domestic violence Steve Edgington has resigned from the role after it was revealed he was in business with a former CLP president who assaulted his wife.

Liam Mendes

Nation

Barkly electorate officer Darius Plummer. Picture: Supplied

DV offender suspended from shadow minister’s staff

Darius Plummer, a staffer for NT shadow minister for domestic violence, was suspended with pay, after revelations he has been jailed multiple times for breaching domestic violence orders.

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