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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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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

exclusiveNation

Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro on the streets of Alice Springs.

Alice cops in despair at court’s ‘revolving door joke’

Alice Springs police officers are growing increasingly frustrated with the Northern Territory’s court system, which they say acts as a ‘revolving door’ for offenders.

Liam Mendes

ExclusiveIndigenous

13-08-2024 - Wife beater and chair of Lhere Artepe Aboriginal Corporation Benedict Stevens (blue suit) leaves a meeting with NT chief minister Eva Finocchiaro on Friday. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

Respected Alice Springs elder ‘beat his partner with an Aboriginal tool’

Benedict Stevens, who beat his long-term partner in an alcohol-fuelled assault earlier this year, met the NT Chief Minister last week and performed a Welcome to Country at an AFL game in the week prior to pleading guilty.

Ellie Dudley and Liam Mendes

Indigenous

14-08-2024 - Scotty Goodwin, 14, who was abandoned by his mother at three months old, working at NT Bakery with baker and Alice Springs advocate Darren Clark. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

Great Scotty: Alice youth have hope

At five days old, Scotty Goodwin was abandoned by his alcoholic mother. Now 14, he is the centre of a landmark project to get NT Indigenous youths in jobs and out of trouble.

Liam Mendes

exclusiveIndigenous

14/12/2024: A woman fell to the ground in Alice Springs after being beaten by another person during an altercation, and police and ambulance were called to the incident. Picture: Supplied,

‘Bashed with a rock’: NT violence at crisis point

A spate of violence has grown across the Northern Territory over the weekend amid calls for emergency measures for Alice Springs to be widened.

Liam Mendes

exclusivePolitics

A photo circulated among publicans of a man walking into Alice Springs casino on November 21 carrying a sword after being evicted. Police say he pointed it at a security guard. Picture: Supplied

Albanese’s Alice Springs ‘regional controller’ dropped

A high-paying role spruiked by Anthony Albanese to implement a $250m support package aimed at bringing systemic change for the Northern Territory’s social problems has been quietly axed.

Liam Mendes and Ellie Dudley

ExclusiveNation

** Image has been pixelated* 15-02-2024 - Youths of Alice Springs arrested following another incident involving a stolen car the following evening. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

300 charges: Shock rap sheet of teenagers in alleged baby assault

The two teenagers who allegedly broke into a home in Alice Springs and left a baby with a brain bleed and a fractured skull had collectively been charged with more than 300 other offences and been bailed 35 times.

Liam Mendes and Ellie Dudley

fear and frustrationNation

Forensic investigators at the site of the attack in Sydney's Woollahra.

‘Just what will be torched next?’

The peaceful suburb of Woollahra has twice been targeted in anti-Semitic attacks. Amid a sense of weary anxiety, locals say they are trying to stay strong.

Christine Middap and Liam Mendes

‘RACIST ATTEMPT TO DIVIDE’Nation

Cars have been set alight near anti-Semitic vandalism in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. , Emergency services responded to reports of a car fire on Magney Street in Woollahra about 1am on Wednesday., Fire & Rescue NSW managed to extinguish the fire, however the car was vandalised along with two buildings, the footpath along Magney Street, and another car. Picture: Supplied

Police hunt two disguised men over Woollahra attack

A shocking anti-Semitic attack in Sydney’s east was intended to ‘strike fear’ into the Jewish community, NSW Premier Chris Minns says, vowing that those responsible will face the full force of the law.

Ellie Dudley and Liam Mendes

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