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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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09-12-2024 - Mohammed El-Hamwi, Syrian-Australian community leader. Photo: Liam Mendes / The Australian

Syrian diaspora happy but wary

Syrian-Australian community leader Mohammed Al-Hamwi says he will return to Syria for the first time in 40 years following the collapse of the Assad regime.

Joanna Panagopoulos, Alexi Demetriadi and Liam Mendes

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Counsel assisting Peggy Dwyer with colleague Patrick Coleridge, entering the Alice Springs Local Court on September 6, 2022 for the inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker. Picture: Jason Walls

Lawyers at war in Kumanjayi Walker inquest

NT Health and representatives of Zachary Rolfe have criticised counsel assisting the coroner in the inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker, while other parties have come to her defence.

Liam Mendes, Stephen Rice and Ellie Dudley

MARGIN CALLMargin Call

Police were called to the home of Dyson and Jessica Bowditch.

Assault charge against Barrenjoey banker’s wife

The former Network 10 journalist and wife of Barrenjoey banker Dyson Bowditch was arrested and charged after an assault at their Darling Point home.

Yoni Bashan and Liam Mendes

‘We’re coming for you’Nation

Shocking footage shows cloaked gunmen who killed man in Sydney’s inner south

Police say the general public was exposed to ‘outrageous and reckless indifference’ when a man with organised crime links was shot dead in Surry Hills on Friday night | WATCH

Liam Mendes, Joanna Panagopoulos, Ellie Dudley, Bianca Farmakis and

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4X3 - Woollahra firebombing targeting Jewish homes art

Video shows hooded figures walking to scene of anti-Israel attack

The grainy footage captures the pair walking in the darkness at 12.22am, just minutes before a car was torched and nine others vandalised in the Jewish area of Woollahra.

Stephen Rice and Liam Mendes

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Alice Springs Local Court. Picture: Gera Kazakov

Alice Springs court staffing ‘incentivising guilty pleas’

An alarming email to staff at Alice Springs Local Court has whistleblowers warning the NT justice system is now teetering ‘on a cliff edge’.

Liam Mendes and Ellie Dudley

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18-11-2024 - Broadcaster Alan Jones leaves Day Street police station after being granted bail. Photo: Liam Mendes / The Australian

Ninth person comes forward; Jones faces two new charges

Child Abuse Squad detectives have charged Alan Jones with an additional two offences following charges on Monday of multiple counts of alleged indecent assault and sexual touching offences against nine men.

Stephen Rice, Liam Mendes and Ellie Dudley

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A NT Police TRG award issued in 2015, set to the background of William H. West’s Big Minstrel Jubilee, featuring a caricature of what appears to be a person wearing blackface. Picture - Supplied

Senior NT cop ‘dressed as KKK to scare locals’

A senior NT police officer dressed as Ku Klux Klan member and drove around Alice Springs to frighten Indigenous local residents, according to previously secret evidence from a former cop.

Stephen Rice and Liam Mendes

Environmental voyageScience

The Oosterschelde sails into Sydney Harbour, bringing the DARWIN200 crew with it. Picture: Andrea Francolini

Darwin voyagers’ message of hope

As modern conservationists grapple with a changing world, a crew of intrepid sailors seek to rechart the path laid by Charles Darwin, leading them to Sydney.

James Dowling and Liam Mendes

ICAC findingsNation

Two certificates from the 2007 NT Police TRG awards, which the NT ICAC commissioner has deemedto be 'racist'. Picture - Supplied

NT corruption watchdog washes hands of racist cops

In a bombshell report, the NT corruption watchdog has found that police who engaged in shocking racist mock awards should not be further investigated and that it doesn’t have the resources to do so.

Stephen Rice and Liam Mendes

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