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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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Officeworks said 'our policies were incorrectly applied and in accordance with our Officeworks’ policies, the laminating should have taken place'.

Officeworks staffer had anti-Jewish record

The Officeworks staff member who refused service to a Jewish man because she was ‘pro-Palestinian’ was involved in an anti-Semitic incident just weeks before a second incident.

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‘Pro-Palestinian’ Officeworks staffer refuses to serve Jewish customer | WATCH

Extraordinary footage of a Melbourne Officeworks staff member refusing to laminate a Jewish newspaper for a kippah-wearing man has emerged, with the customer taking the business to an anti-discrimination tribunal | VIDEO

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Helen Secretary and Steve Doherty at the NT News Futures Northern Territory forum 2024. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Resign calls over DV ‘love dance’ quip

The former vice-president of the Country Liberal Party has been asked to resign after blaming victims for remaining in violent relationships and saying domestic violence is ‘quite often a love dance’.

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(L-R) NT opposition leader Lia Finocchiaro, Helen Secretary and Steve Doherty

DV victims should ‘take some responsibility for their lives’

Senior NT Country Liberal Party figure Steve Doherty has blamed domestic violence victims for remaining in violent relationships.

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06-07-2024 - Shay Golany with an engine from a Russian 9M133 Kornet anti-tank guided missile found in a cherry field in his kibbutz in early July. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

Making hay while the rockets fly

Northern Israel’s farmers work the land as they face almost daily fire from Hezbollah amid fear the conflict will escalate to all-out war.

Liam Mendes

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NT Independent Commissioner Against Corruption (ICAC) Michael Riches. Picture: Office of the ICAC/Supplied

ICAC chief facing new allegations

Beleaguered NT ICAC commissioner Michael Riches has been referred to the Commissioner for Public Employment.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 15: Bruce Lehrmann emerges from court on April 15, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. Justice Michael Lee has ruled in favour of Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson in Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case. The case arose from allegations aired on 'The Project' news program, in which Brittany Higgins claimed she was raped by a colleague in Parliament House. Lehrmann, who denied any sexual contact with Ms Higgins, alleged defamation by the broadcast, despite not being explicitly named. The court found that Lehrmann had raped Brittany Higgins on the balance of probabilities. (Photo by Don Arnold/Getty Images)

Lehrmann hit for $13,250 after apartment ‘damaged’

Bruce Lehrmann is being asked to pay $13,250 after alleged ‘extensive damage’ at a multimillion-dollar Sydney property provided by the Seven Network.

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NT ICAC commissioner cleared of DVO coverup

Michael Riches has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the NT ICAC inspector, despite his estranged wife Jennifer, not being formally interviewed as part of an investigation.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 23, 2021: Bruce McClintock SC pictured as he arrives at federal court, Sydney CBD. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw

ICAC inspector flies in to probe commissioner

The man who oversees the Northern Territory’s anti-corruption body has made a trip to Darwin, as he instigates an investigation into accusations levelled at embattled NT ICAC commissioner, Michael Riches.

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Scared, scarred: the victim Andrew Giles forgot about

A victim of a violent NZ-born menace Glenn Taylor but was saved by Direction 99 from deportation has laid ‘100 per cent’ of the blame with the Immigration Minister.

Alexi Demetriadi, Rhiannon Down, Liam Mendes and Simon Benson

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