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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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Cultural reviewMedia

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY 20, 2021: Channel 9 news chief Darren Wick pictured as he leaves Hornsby local court to front the media waiting outside, Darren Wick was charged over high-range drink driving after being caught behind the wheel at more than four times the limit.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw

‘No heads will roll; we are devastated’

Nine Entertainment’s past and present employees have spoken about their frustration at the handling of the company’s independent review and said ‘no heads will roll’.

Sophie Elsworth and Liam Mendes

‘Bullying’ reviewMedia

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - ÃNewsWire Photos March 28 Ã2021 Channel Nine offices in north SydneyPicture: NCA NewsWire/Flavio Brancaleone

‘It’s been horrific’: Nine staff detail their despair

The rotten secrets of Nine have been published in a report detailing what many in the media and entertainment industry were fearful of speaking about.

Liam Mendes

abuse claimsMedia

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Damning report: Nine lives for network of creeps and bullies

Furious staff at Nine Entertainment have accused the media giant of failing to act on serious workplace instances of unwanted sexual touching, indecent exposure, bullying and stalking, with alleged perpetrators still holding senior positions.

James Madden, Sophie Elsworth and Liam Mendes

exclusiveNation

PIXILATED VERSION -. Bohas White, the Lajamanu man arrested after allegedly stabbing his partner to death. Picture - Supplied

Man who previously beat partner with ‘nulla nulla’ arrested for stabbing death

A man alleged to have fatally stabbed his wife to death in the Northern Territory on Monday had a violent criminal history, including multiple attacks on women.

Liam Mendes

ExclusiveLegal Affairs

Jenna Riches at her Sydney home; Richard White with wife Zena Nasser and his former lover Linda Rogan. Main picture: Jane Dempster

‘He likes the game’: second woman alleges ‘advice for sex’ compact with billionaire

Billionaire Richard White has been accused of giving business advice in exchange for sex by a second woman, who says the WiseTech founder is ‘attracted to intellect’ – a condition defined as sapiosexual | READ THEIR CHAT MESSAGES

Angelica Snowden, John Stensholt and Liam Mendes

LIVE: Israel at warWorld

Red Crescent says 28 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza school

The Palestinian Red Crescent said an Israeli air strike on a Gaza school killed at least 28 people on Thursday, while the Israeli military reported it struck a Hamas command centre.

Joe Kelly, Liam Mendes and Anne Barrowclough

LebanonWorld

(FILES) Senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine (C) attends the funeral ceremony of slain top commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut's southern suburbs on August 1, 2024. A high-level Hezbollah source said on October 5, 2024 that contact with Hashem Safieddine, widely touted as potentially the group's next leader, had been lost following Israeli strikes this week. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Hezbollah successor Safieddine ‘killed’: Netanyahu

The likely successor of Hassan Nasrallah, the assassinated leader of terrorist group Hezbollah, is thought to have been killed by the IDF in an airstrike last week.

Liam Mendes

LIVE: Israel at warWorld

TOPSHOT - Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on October 9, 2024. Israel expanded operations in Lebanon nearly a year after Hezbollah began exchanging fire in support of its ally, Hamas, following the Palestinian group's deadly attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. (Photo by AFP)

Hezbollah and Israel trade strikes ahead of Netanyahu-Biden talks

Hezbollah has fired more projectiles into Israel while the IDF has targeted northern Gaza, ahead of a phone call between Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden about Israel’s plans over Iran.

Liam Mendes, Anne Barrowclough and Agency writers

exclusiveWorld

Inbar and Yaari Vigder with son Ari; Mr Vigder this week. Picture: Liam Mendes

Amid tragedy, Yaari holds on to precious life

Until last week, Yaari Vigder’s world had been a picture of happiness. He lived with his fitness instructor wife and baby boy in the historic port city of Jaffa. A terror attack changed everything.

Yoni Bashan and Liam Mendes

Israel at warThe Wall Street Journal

TOPSHOT - A plume of smoke billows following an Israeli air strike on the village of Khiam in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel on October 7, 2024. The Israeli army said on October 7 that it had deployed another division to participate in operations in Lebanon -- making it the third troop grouping at division strength to be used in the ground fight against Hezbollah. (Photo by AFP)

IDF takes out Hezbollah HQ commander

Assaults on Tel Aviv came as Israel launched strikes in Gaza and added troops in Lebanon.

Liam Mendes and Rory Jones

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