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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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‘HORRIFYING’Nation

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY 17 , 2025: NSW Premier Chris Minns speaks at the press conference. NSW Premier Chris Minns, NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb, Police Minister Yasmin Catley, Deputy Commisssioner Peter McKenna and NSW President of the Jewish Board of Deputies David Ossip speak at a press conference after an anti-semitic act of malicious damage in Dover Heights, where a car was burned and a house sprayed with red paint. Picture: NewsWire / John Appleyard

‘Animals’: Premier blasts ‘barbaric’ anti-Semitic attack

The NSW Premier condemned ‘animals’ behind a ‘barbaric’ anti-Semitic attack as he announced hate-speech law reform to target people ‘promoting hatred’ of Jews.

Alexi Demetriadi, Liam Mendes and Ellie Dudley

ESCALATING HATREDNation

17-01-2025. Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin and wife Vicki, outside their former home, 263 Military Rd Dover Heights, Sydney, which was the subject of an anti-Semitic attack over night. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers / The Australian

‘Evil at work’: Jewish leader slams attack on former home

Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin says he is concerned someone could soon die if anti-Semitic attacks continue, after his former home was vandalised in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

Ellie Dudley, Liam Mendes and Alexi Demetriadi

Alice SpringsNation

Dr John Boffa at the PAAC forum in Alice Springs on Wednesday. Picture: ANDREA JOHNSTON

NT rejects hand sanitiser ban after killing

After a man was charged with murder in Alice Springs following a session drinking hand sanitiser, the Territory government is facing calls to restrict sales of the product.

Liam Mendes

Oscar jenkinsDefence

PM, Dutton warn Moscow of ‘strongest action possible’ if Australian PoW executed

Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese present a bipartisan threat of clear and immediate action against the Kremlin if Australian foreign fighter Oscar Jenkins is confirmed to have been executed.

James Dowling, Liam Mendes and Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer

exclusiveNation

An NT woman was allegedly killed by her partner following a day of drinking hand sanitiser.

Alice mother killed after hand sanitiser drinking session

An Indigenous mother in the Northern Territory has been allegedly killed at the hands of her husband after a day of drinking hand sanitiser.

Liam Mendes

EXCLUSIVENation

CLP NT senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price speaking at Alice Springs, Northern Territory, on Tuesday, August 27, 2024. Picture: Gera Kazakov generic

‘Stop welfare on takeaway grog days’: Price calls on PM to act

The Country Liberal Party NT government continues to struggle to contain an increase in violent criminal and anti-social behaviour inherited from its Labor predecessor.

Liam Mendes

exclusivePolitics

Clockwise from left: Images of men wanted over the Synagogue attacks; the Newtown Synagogue; Southern Sydney Synagogue president George Foster.

Call for national cabinet action over synagogue attacks

One of the nation’s most prominent Jewish MPs has called on national cabinet to convene this week and bring in mandatory sentences for criminals who attack synagogues, as multiple incidents of hate are referred to counter-terrorism police.

Mohammad Alfares and Liam Mendes

EXCLUSIVENation

22-12-2024: John Keeble lost his son John to a heroin overdose in 1999. He is pictured in front of the 1993 Holden ute he bought his son in the mid 90s. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

What about our lost Christmases, PM? Parents of overdose deaths slam Bali Nine treatment

The Prime Minister on Friday said the families of the Bali Nine smugglers had suffered enough Christmases without their children. But for parents who have lost their children to the drugs those men were peddling, the grief and the loss never ends.

Liam Mendes and Brendan Kearns

BALI NINENation

20/12/24: Martin Stephens is helped into a car after arriving at Sydney airport. John Feder/The Australian

Heroin trafficker receives royal welcome as he returns to Australia

What do the King, Kim Kardashian and one of the nation’s most infamous drug smugglers have in common? They all received rock star treatment when they landed at Sydney Airport.

Liam Mendes

ReleaseNation

26/08/2010 WIRE: Australian drug mule Scott Rush, center, talks to Australian Government official from behind the bars at the Denpasar District Court before his final appeal hearing against his death sentence in Bali, Indonesia Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. Rush, one of nine Australians found guilty in April 2005 of attempting to smuggle 8.3 kilograms (18.3 pounds) of heroin into Australia from the resort island of Bali, attended his final appeal hearing against his death sentence. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Four fly home, as one stays in limbo

Anthony Albanese has defended Bali drug smuggler Scott Rush’s impending freedom and says his family have already ‘paid the price’ for his crimes, despite Queensland police declaring they plan to question him about theft allegations.

Liam Mendes and Lydia Lynch

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