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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2/11/2021 Inquest into the death of Ursula Barwick. Pictured is UrsulaÃs sister Kate Barwick (L), with Detective Sergeant Amy Scott, one of two officers who investigated UrsulaÃs disappearance, and UrsulaÃs stepmother Elizabeth Barwick (R). Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

‘Systemic’ cop failings in missing persons cases: coroner

NSW Police failed to properly identify four missing persons and did not take basic steps to try to solve the mystery of their disappearances, a coronial inquest has found.

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Family members celebrate upon being reunited on arrival at Sydney's International Airport on November 1, 2021, as Australia's international border reopened almost 600 days after a pandemic closure began. (Photo by Saeed Khan / AFP)

Tears, hugs and kisses on day of pure joy

Sydney International Airport’s arrivals hall transformed from a lifeless empty space to one heaving with humanity after borders opened to fully vaccinated returning Aussies on Monday.

Robyn Ironside and Liam Mendes

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(LR) Melissa Lyras, Emillia Puligheddu (9 months), Toni Lyras, Theo Lyras and Sebastian Puligheddu at Sydney International airport on the 1st of November 2021. Toni and Theo meet their granddaughter for the first time as they arrive from Spain to Sydney. Picture: Adam Yip

Cheers and tears of joy as Australians return home

Grandparents met grandchildren for the first time, young romantics flung themselves into each other’s arms, and airport staff handed out Tim Tams.

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Court ‘wrong to free drug fugitive’

The NSW Police Commissioner has criticised a magistrate who released alleged drug kingpin Mostafa Baluch.

Liam Mendes

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Did missing drug ‘kingpin’ flee … or was he kidnapped?

Family of Mostafa Baluch fear he’s been kidnapped, despite police suspicions he left Sydney on a private jet after cutting off his ankle monitoring bracelet.

Liam Mendes

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos October 20 2021: Distressed family and friends at the scene of the shooting deaths of two Hamze family members in Guildford this morning.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

Gangland war claims two crime clan members

The slaying of two members of the notorious Hamze family is a major escalation of the war between feuding crime groups.

Joseph Lam and Liam Mendes

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**FILE** A Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 file photo of Hoddle Street mass killer Julian Knight leaves the Supreme Court in Melbourne. Knight was sentenced to seven life terms in 1987 when he massacred seven people and injured 19 others as they drove along Melbourne's Hoddle Street. He was eligible to apply for parole in May 2014, but the Adult Parole Board of Victoria has decided he has no prospect for release in the foreseeable future, Melbourne, Thursday, July 5, 2012. (AAP Image/Julian Smith) NO ARCHIVING

Mass murderer suing jailers for ‘price gouging’

Hoddle Street killer Julian Knight is suing Corrections Victoria for ‘price gouging’ prisoners, claiming he and other inmates are being overcharged for phone calls.

Liam Mendes

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‘Very few’ exempt from a vaccine

While thousands of Australians are demanding medical exemptions, only a ‘vanishingly rare’ few have been accepted as having a valid reason to avoid the jab.

Liam Mendes

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Seven West Media CEO James Warburton in Sydney, Monday, 15 February, 2021. Seven announce their first-half earnings results Picture: Nikki Short

Seven on a mission to reclaim its number

The Seven Network has initiated legal proceedings against global convenience store behemoth 7-Eleven, Inc in a landmark trademark dispute.

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Politics

Police play it calm to prevent great divide

As NSW celebrated its first day of freedom from lockdown, it also confronted its first day as a divided state: the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated.

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