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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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Independent Mackellar MP Sophie Scamps, left, and Liberal candidate James Brown. Picture: Liam Mendes

A ‘mountain to climb’ on the beaches: Lib

The Liberal candidate seeking to win back the highly prized, once ironclad-safe seat of Mackellar on Sydney’s northern beaches, understands the scale of the challenge he faces.

Joanna Panagopoulos and Liam Mendes

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NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro will strengthen bail laws after police arrested a Darwin teenager who allegedly stabbed to death supermarket owner Linford Feik.

NT to strengthen bail laws after supermarket stabbing

Lia Finocchiaro will recall parliament to pass the ‘toughest bail laws’ in the country, after The Australian revealed the teen arrested for allegedly killing an elderly supermarket owner had been bailed for aggravated assault and rape.

Liam Mendes

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Thi Kim Tran, 45, was kidnapped from her Bankstown home before her body was found burnt in the back of a car in Beverly Hills. Photo: Facebook

Murdered woman’s partner ‘in conflict’ with crime gang

Police believe the partner of Thi Kim Tran, the 45-year-old woman murdered and set on fire in a car in southwest Sydney, was ‘in conflict’ with an organised crime gang in Victoria.

Will Seitam and Liam Mendes

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10/04/2025: Stills from a video posted to Facebook showing a stolen car chasing a police car in the remote community of Palumpa, Northern Territory.

Alleged chase teen ‘on bail for car theft’

A teenager arrested for allegedly driving a stolen Land-Cruiser and chasing police with it in a remote NT town was on bail at the time for car theft and was recently sentenced for his involvement in three extra stolen car incidents.

Liam Mendes

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Upside-down world where the crims chase police

Anywhere else in the world, the police would be in hot pursuit of thieves – but in the Northern Territory, it’s the other way around, as extroardinary new footage reveals | WATCH

Liam Mendes

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Alice Springs woman Dinela Woods freed for violent beating because of 'inhumane' prison conditions.

Judge frees violent attacker because of ‘inhumane’ prison conditions

A woman in Alice Springs has avoided prison for a brutal assault on a teenager due to inhumane detention conditions, sparking debate on strains in the corrections system.

Liam Mendes

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The school wellbeing officer has arrested last week.

School welfare officer on teen sex charge granted bail

A student wellbeing officer who works with Indigenous children at a private school in Darwin has been granted bail after allegedly having sex with a teenager.

Liam Mendes

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Parking in Palmerston has changed to allow disabled drivers longer parking and free parking Trevor Miller and Margaret Lee with there disabled parking tickets . Pic Katrina Bridgeford.

Teen arrested for attack was on bail

Elderly Darwin man Trevor Miller was found in a pool of his own blood after two young boys allegedly hacked at him with a machete. One had been bailed three times in as many months.

Liam Mendes

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Ethan Anzac who was allegedly stabbed to death by his partner Maria Jimmy. Picture: Facebook

‘He bashed me before I’ve murdered him’

A Darwin woman accused of murdering her rapist partner allegedly told police she did so because ‘he bashed me before I’ve murdered him’.

Liam Mendes

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New Blur - , A ‘wellbeing officer’ who works with Indigenous children at a school in Darwin has been arrested after allegedly having sexual intercourse with a child and was intending to meet the child over the weekend, police sources say. Picture - Supplied

Wellbeing officer on teen sex charge

A student wellbeing officer who works with Indigenous children at a prominent private school in Darwin has been arrested after allegedly having sexual intercourse with a teenager.

Liam Mendes and Joanna Panagopoulos

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