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Former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas is recovering from an eye injury suffered after police broke up a protest in Sydney last month

NSW Police to drop anti-riot charge against injured protester Hannah Thomas

After the Herald revealed the former Greens candidate had been charged under rarely used emergency powers, NSW Police have changed the charges she will face.

  • Michael McGowan and Jessica McSweeney

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Former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas has been warned she will likely never regain full vision in her right eye after an injury she suffered when police broke up an anti-Israel protest last month.

Hannah Thomas warned to ‘prepare for worst’ after serious eye injury

The former Greens candidate has been warned she is unlikely to ever regain full vision in her eye after suffering an injury when police broke up an anti-Israel protest.

  • Michael McGowan
Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra arrives at Government House for a cabinet meeting in Bangkok today.

Thai PM suspended over leaked phone call about border dispute

Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been suspended while a court considers whether she criticised a Thai general and showed undue deference to Cambodia’s de facto leader.

  • Zach Hope
Hannah Thomas gif

Videos expose the violent melee, the gruesome eye injury and the ugly fallout

A series of videos, police fact sheets and court documents reveal the moments leading up to and directly after Hannah Thomas’ injury, as police launch a major investigation into the incident.

  • Michael McGowan, Amber Schultz and Kayla Olaya
Hannah Thomas is in Bankstown Hospital with a serious eye injury requiring surgery after she was arrested with four others at a pro-Palestine protest in Sydney’s south-west.

Critical incident declared as police investigate Greens candidate’s eye injury

Hannah Thomas’ injuries have been reviewed by a NSW Police medical officer, who determined the level of injury warranted a critical incident declaration.

  • Amber Schultz, Michael McGowan, Jessica McSweeney and Kayla Olaya
Hannah Thomas is in Bankstown Hospital with a serious eye injury requiring surgery after she was arrested with four others at a pro-Palestine protest in Sydney’s south-west.

‘Draconian’: Injured protester’s hospital bed message

Hannah Thomas has a serious eye injury that required surgery after she was arrested with four others at a pro-Palestine protest in Sydney’s south-west.

  • Michael McGowan, Amber Schultz, Kayla Olaya and Josefine Ganko
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Hannah Thomas with a brusied and swollen eye, and bloodied face in an ambulance after police arrested her during a protest in Belmore on Friday 28 June, 2025.

Former Greens candidate, bruised and bloodied, undergoes facial surgery after police arrest

Hannah Thomas, who ran against the prime minister in Grayndler, “may well lose an eye”, her lawyer said.

  • Kate Aubusson and Anthony Segaert
Demonstrators react to the death in custody of Kenyan blogger Albert Ojwang.

How the death of a blogger fuelled deadly protests across a nation

When the police came for Albert, his wife initially thought he would be safe. By the next morning, the father of one was dead.

  • Monicah Mwangi, Christophe Van Der Perre and Edwin Okoth
CFMEU members rallying at Bowen Hills this week in the wake of the High Court decision.

LNP, Labor unite in condemning CFMEU protest

Workers who participated in union protests in Brisbane this week will be docked pay, Premier David Crisafulli said as the actions of some in the crowd drew condemnation from both sides of politics.

  • Cameron Atfield
Australian writer Alistair Kitchen was detained for 12 hours at LAX before being sent back to Melbourne.

I was turned back at the US border after a 12-hour interrogation

Last Thursday, I departed Melbourne on QF93 for a two-week holiday in New York. I never made it.

  • Alistair Kitchen

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