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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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Federal Opposition leader Peter Dutton with NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro in Alice Springs on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. Picture: Gera Kazakov

‘Enough is enough’: Dutton pledges to crack down on crime

Major changes to Centrelink access recommended by the Territory government will be at the forefront of the Coalition’s policy for cutting crime in Alice Springs.

James Dowling and Liam Mendes

‘New chapter in my life’Nation

Australia Day 2025..26/1/25: Ashutosh Phatak with daughters, Sharveyi (maroon dress) and Anwesha (pink dress). Ashutosh and his 2 daughters became Australian citizens at the Parramatta Citizenship Ceremony. John Feder/The Australian.

Thousands gather for Australia Day celebrations and citizenship ceremonies

Thousands have flocked to Australia Day events across the nation to commemorate the greatest nation in the world, with new citizens from over 150 different countries pledging their patriotism to Australia.

Liam Mendes

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 24: Alex Cullen attends the Nine 2025 Upfronts at Carriageworks on October 24, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage)

Nine sports host ousted over $50k payment

Today star Alex Cullen has left the Nine Network following a scandal in which he allegedly accepted payment from a billionaire lottery tycoon.

James Madden and Liam Mendes

Sydney attacksNation

A second man has been arrested after an alleged attempt to set a religious building on fire in Newtown earlier this month.

Arresting development: finally cops unite against anti-Semitism

The nation’s police chiefs have finally united to establish a cross-nation taskforce to fight anti-Semitism, as suspects involved in an attack on a Jewish deli allegedly refused to hand over phone passwords.

Liam Mendes, Joanna Panagopoulos and Alexi Demetriadi

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWirePhotos - Sunday , 20 October 2024:Fire at Jewish Shop Lewis Continental Kitchen on the corner of Curlews st and Old South Head Rd Bondi.Picture: NewsWire / Monique Harmer

‘James Bond’ enlists local crims in botched Jewish deli attack

Two men charged by NSW Police’s anti-Semitic task force were seemingly paid by an unknown criminal referred to as ‘James Bond’ to carry out a firebombing on a Bondi brewery they mistook for a Jewish deli with a similar name | WATCH

Liam Mendes and Alexi Demetriadi

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Picture of Tammie Farrugia, 34, charged over the Woollahra anti-Jewish graffiti and firebombing., Picture: facebook

Woman arrested over anti-Semitic attack was looking for ‘jerry cans’

A woman accused of being part of an anti-Semitic firebombing attack in Sydney’s eastern suburbs allegedly posted on social media seeking plastic jerry cans the day before the attack.

Liam Mendes

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‘We’re no threat’: violent former detainee

A violent former immigration detainee convicted of kidnapping and break and enter has been released from prison following an affray conviction | WATCH

Liam Mendes

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DAILY TELEGRAPH - 11.12.24A car is set alight and anti semitic graffiti sprayed on homes in Magney St Woollhara. A cleaner paints over the graffiti. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Woman arrested over Woollahra anti-Semitism attack

A 34-year-old woman from western Sydney has been arrested over her alleged involvement in an anti-Semitic attack in the city’s affluent east which saw three buildings graffitied and a car set alight.

Liam Mendes

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CCT footage of Firebombing and and graffiti attack. On Friday morning in Sydney's east, in the suburb of Dover Heights, a house and car was vandalised. At about 4am, the two-storey home, formerly owned by Executive Council of Australian Jewry's Alex Ryvchin, was covered in red paint, while two cars were set alight, one of which was spray-painted with anti-Semitic language. Picture - Supplied

Horrific Dover Heights attack caught on CCTV

Footage shows the moment two dark-clothed and hooded figures doused two cars in petrol and splattered red paint on the former home of a high-profile Jewish community leader | WATCH

Liam Mendes

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16-01-2024 -30-year-old Mazen, a Palestinian lawyer living pictured in Khan Younis poses for a selfie on Thursday afternoon, he fears Hamas will come back "even stronger" during the first stage of the ceasefire.

Fear rises in Gaza of Hamas retribution

A Gazan in Khan Younis has spoken to The Australian, warning about repercussions and his fears following Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas

Liam Mendes

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