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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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Life of luxury for this anti-lockdown inciter

One of the activists behind last month’s violent anti-lockdown march has slipped into Sydney from his base in Queensland to organise another illegal protest.

Liam Mendes

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Sportsbet at odds with the law

Online bookmaker Sportsbet has been charged by authorities after using popular memes to allegedly illegally induce punters to their website by offering free betting money.

Liam Mendes

Beach watchPolitics

16-08-21NSW Mounted Police pictured at Bondi Beach 14 hours after the commencement of ÃOperation Stay at HomeÃ.

Candid cameras on patrol as police get tough

Bondi beachgoers in Sydney’s east were shocked to discover they were under surveillance by portable CCTV cameras on Monday, as NSW police ramped up patrols.

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Sydney’s west and southwestNation

As case numbers rise, Covid and culture clash head-on

Sheik Azzam Mesto is blunt. Even as Covid numbers increase, it is hard to encourage close-knit families and communities to change how they’ve lived for generations.

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Fraudster concerns over fake passes

International fraudsters are selling fake Australian Covid certificates for as little as $120, claiming they are identical to the real certificates.

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Politics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 09: Students wait to receive the Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19 at Judos Arena on August 9, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. For two weeks, approximately 24,000 year-12 students from eight hot-spot Sydney local government areas will receive the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in an effort to create a safe environment for students to take HSC exams in person. Greater Sydney is in lockdown through August 28 to contain the highly contagious Covid-19 delta variant. (Photo by Dean Lewins-Pool/Getty Images)

Class action as year 12 queues for a shot

Hundreds of Year 12 students from Covid-19 hotspots in west and southwest Sydney lined up to receive their first Pfizer jabs at a mass vaccination hub on Monday.

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vaccinationNation

Pfizer fizzer sends jab hopefuls home in disgust

People who turned up for a ‘Super Sunday’ vaccination blitz thought they would be getting Pfizer jabs – but left in anger when they discovered they were being offered only AstraZeneca.

Liam Mendes

Defence

Partners on patrol as ADF allies with police

NSW police and ADF personnel have begun joint quarantine compliance checks across Greater Sydney, with only two breaches detected over the past week.

Liam Mendes

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Anaesthetist Dr Robert Hackett pictured outside his Paddington home. Dr Hackett is under investigation by health regulator Ahpra for alleged comments made on social media targeting deputy Chief Health Officer Nick Coatesworth.

Doctors’ anti-AZ rants in spotlight

Top health officials frustrated with failure to rein in medicos who are perpetuating conspiracy theories about AstraZeneca.

Sharri Markson and Liam Mendes

Nation

New Amazon fulfilment centre in Moorebank. Aerial shot supplied

Amazon shutters main centre

One of the nation’s largest online retailers has been forced to shut down its Sydney operations after a coronavirus outbreak at its chief fulfilment centre.

Liam Mendes

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