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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Ransom demands sent to law firm HWL Ebsworth after 4 terabytes of data stolen by Russian hackers . Source: - Supreme Court of NSW.

Law firm slammed for hack secrecy

Top-tier law firm HWL Ebsworth and the federal government has been accused of ‘stifling accurate public reporting’.

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‘DARK CLOUD’Nation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - June 15, 2023: Friends lay flowers at the crash site, in memory of their former opponents and friends who played for the Singleton Roosters. Picture: Jeremy Piper

Support for bus-crash orphans

The Hunter community has vowed to support the orphaned children of a young married couple who died the most horrific bus crash the country has seen in decades.

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Hunter Valley tragedyNation

‘Honour to know’ bus crash victim

One of the victims of the weekend bus crash has been described as ‘Superman’ as the premier confirms possible seatbelt law changes.

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Hunter Valley disasterNation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 13, 2023: Brett Andrew Button pictured walking out of Cessnock police station after being granted bail.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Damian Shaw

Death coach driver weeps before getting bail

A court heard Brett Button was driving so fast and dangerously that terrified passengers fastened their seatbelts.

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First photoNation

Bus crash driver freed on bail after first court appearance

Brett Button began weeping as he was told he’d be released on bail as court hears police expect to bring 15 more charges over the Hunter Valley bus crash.

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HIGGINS TEXTSNation

UPSIZED FOR PRINT // 10-06-2023 - Senator Katy Gallagher arriving in Canberra on Saturday evening. Liam Mendes / The Australian

Minister under siege digs in for a fight

Katy Gallagher was defiant and all but silent as she flew into a Canberra firestorm over her knowledge of Brittany Higgins’s rape allegations.

Liam Mendes and Greg Brown

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Arrest warrant issued for Jean Nassif

The property developer has been issued with a warrant for his arrest by police after leaving the country following the arrest of his daughter, with police also investigating a private investigator found to be following his wife.

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Former Chaser star reported to police over email ‘purge’

ABC’s Julian Morrow is accused of getting ‘rid of’ email accounts less than three weeks after court proceedings were filed by his former business partner.

Liam Mendes and Joanna Panagopoulos

Surry Hills blazeNation

Surry Hills building on Fire on Elizabeth St Sydney. Picture - Chris Pavllich

Teenagers hand themselves in to police after inferno

Two 13-year-olds handed themselves in overnight following a ‘once-in-a-decade’ building fire in Sydney on Thursday night, with police wanting to talk with more teens.

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Tragic endNation

Officers were called to Yallambee Lodge aged care home in Cooma, in southern New South Wales, about 4.15am on Wednesday after resident Clare Nowland, who has dementia, was found by staff holding a steak knife.

Tasered dementia patient dies, policeman charged

Clare Nowland has died surrounded by her family, days after being tasered by a NSW police officer in an aged care home.

Liam Mendes and Noah Yim

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