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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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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.

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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’.

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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.

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‘Anonymous bomb threat’ call to Sydney school

A religious school in Sydney’s west has received an anonymous bomb threat as students were evacuated.

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29-03-2025 - A fight between a man and a woman - involving a stick and a rock - on Saturday morning outside Alice Springs Hospital. Picture: Liam Mendes / The Australian

‘Visit Alice without cops’, leaders urged

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are being urged to visit crime-ridden Alice Springs during the election campaign, and see it without police being sent to clear the streets beforehand.

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DARWIN, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 27: (L-R) Lisa Bayliss CLP Candidate for Solomon with Lisa Seibert - CLP Candidate for Lingiardi on March 27, 2025, in Darwin, Australia. Picture: Rebecca Parker / The Australian

‘Underdogs’ take bite out of crime

Country Liberal Party contenders Lisa Bayliss and Lisa Siebert say they come well-equipped to tackle the Territory’s crime crisis if they manage to steal their seats from Labor incumbents.

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Gavin Morris, the principal of Alice Springs Indigenous school Yipirinya, outside Alice Springs local court on Tuesday, August 13. Picture: Liam Mendes

Alice Springs principal charged with assaulting kids quits town council

Gavin Morris announced his sudden resignation, vowing to ‘fight to clear my name’.

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MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA - Newswire Photos FEBRUARY 22ND 2024 : Zara Cooper, is one of the Jewish community members who was doxxed in the pro-Palestine leak 10 days ago. PICTURE : NCA Newswire / Nicki Connolly

Free speech threat as police target anti-Semitism campaigner

A landmark case will determine whether Victoria Police can gag an Israel advocate because of the ‘threat’ to the leader of a left-wing group.

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NSW Police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon handed himself into Bondi Police Station on Friday. Picture: Liam Mendes

Accused killer cop seen by forensic psychiatrist

Beau Lamarre-Condon could launch a defence on mental health grounds after a court heard he had been seen by a forensic psychiatrist

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA : NewsWire Photos - MARCH 19 2025; Sarah Abu Lebdeh arrives at Downing Court surrounded by friends. One of two Sydney nurses who have been charged after allegedly making anti-Semitic threats in a video filmed at a hospital and widely shared online. Picture: NewsWire/ Gaye Gerard

Former nurses face court over ‘kill Israelis’ video rant, one to plead not guilty

Sarah Abu Lebdeh and Ahmad Rashad Nadir have fronted court, with the lawyer for one of the accused saying they intend to argue for the video to be excluded from the court proceedings because it was captured ‘without consent’ | WATCH

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