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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Pictured Leaving Manly Police Station in Sydney is former Australian cricketer Michael Slater who has been arrested on domestic violence charges.Picture: Richard Dobson

Yet more trouble for former Test star Slater

Former Test cricketer Michael Slater has been charged by police with using a carriage service to menace, harass, or cause offence and also contravening an AVO.

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WQS surfer Chris Davidson who is taking part in the Dripping Wet Pro

Waratahs coach’s brother accused of deadly assault

The man accused of causing the death of ex-surfing champion Chris Davidson in one-punch attack identified as brother of NSW Waratahs coach.

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Slater in hospital after arrest

Former cricketer Michael Slater is in hospital after he was arrested for allegedly breaching bail.

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Bilal Hamze, 25, who is facing two counts of shoot with intent to murder, is granted bail for a second time despite an appeal by the DPP and police to keep him off the streets

Man charged with murder of underworld figure

A prison inmate has been charged with the murder of Bilal Hamze, shot dead as he emerged from a Japanese restaurant in Sydney’s CBD last year.

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EXCLUSIVENation

Markle at centre of Seven defamation suit

A paparazzi photographer alleges he was defamed by the Sunrise program after a live interview with Thomas Markle.

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EXCLUSIVENation

Comanchero bikie boss Tarek Zahed (L) has been seen for the first time since he was shot ten times in May, showing off the remarkable recovery he has made from the attack that claimed the life of his brother. Picture: instagram https://www.instagram.com/theallanmeehan/

Bikie chief’s new bail bid

Comanchero national sergeant-at-arms Tarek Zahed will plead his case for bail in the NSW Supreme Court after his last application was quashed over a brazen photo of him posing with known associates.

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Politics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos August 18, 2022: A view of the Russian Embassy construction site in Yarralumla, in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Russia sues over embassy eviction

Russia has opened up a new battlefront, this time against the Australian government over a small block of land on a quiet street in Yarralumla earmarked for its new embassy.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, NCA NewsWire, 15 September 2022.The first of the Buxton crash victims Tyrese Bechardwill farewelled in a funeral service at 10am on Thursday. Five teenagers, between the age of 14 and 16, died when the car they were travelling in lost control and hit a tree, with only the 18-year-old driver surviving. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Monique Harmer

First of five farewelled as crash driver seeks bail

The first of five teenage victims killed in a crash in Sydney’s southwest has been laid to rest, as the 18-year-old teenage driver charged over the tragedy prepares a plea to be freed on bail.

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Picture snaps high-profile bikie’s bail bid

Comanchero national sergeant-at-arms Tarek Zahed’s photo with known associates just months after surviving an attempted hit has come back to bite him.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, NCA NewsWire, Sunday, 4 September 2022A $24 million Sydney heritage home has been destroyed after it went up in flames overnight, just a year after it was purchased.Picture: NewsWire / Monique Harmer

Arson probe over $24m mansion blaze

Police are treating the fire that destroyed a $24m ‘grand home’ on Sydney’s lower north shore on Saturday night as suspicious.

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