Police investigating Hamish Tait – who faces 329 child abuse charges – have released list of 55 locations where he worked or attended
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A federal police investigation into an accused paedophile facing more than 300 child abuse charges has expanded to a remote community in South Australia.
Hamish Tait, 35, faces 329 charges of child abuse between 2009 and 2025 while working across 62 centres.
Continue reading...Exclusive University of Sydney study finds heat-related hospital admissions to increase by 6% to 7.7% by the end of the century
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Extreme high temperatures in warmer months double the risk of young people being admitted to hospital for a mental health condition, according to research.
The analysis, which looked at 720,000 New South Wales hospital admissions of young people aged up to 24, suggested the climate crisis would aggravate the already declining mental health of young people.
Continue reading...More than half of homes taken to auction not selling while median property price in Adelaide started to slide in June
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House prices are now falling in four capital cities with the Adelaide market beginning to slide in June, while Sydney values have dropped by $48,000 since the start of the year.
Data from Cotality, released on Wednesday, showed Sydney and Melbourne recorded their biggest one-month decline in values since August 2022, falling 1.2% and 1% respectively.
Continue reading...Two orchestra members from the Sydney performance allege tensions behind the scenes were the cause of pianist failing to appear after intermission
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When an audience member stepped in for a pianist at a Sydney performance of La La Land in Concert last month it made global headlines.
During the intermission of the concert at Darling Harbour Theatre on 30 May, the two-time Oscar-winning composer and conductor Justin Hurwitz appealed to the 2,000-strong crowd for an “amazing sight-reader”, saying one of his two keyboardists had fallen ill.
Continue reading...Australian federal police arrested and charged two men after allegedly finding $800m worth of cocaine in ‘bunkers’ under shipping containers
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Police claim to have made Australia’s biggest ever cocaine bust after finding $800m worth of the drug buried under false flooring on a semi-rural property.
Two men, aged 21 and 25, allegedly tried to run from police and were arrested on Friday after an operation by Australian federal police, alongside investigators in multiple states.
Continue reading...Police found two children – both aged under five – had been struck by a car in Cabramatta, in the city’s south-west
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Two children in a pram have been struck and killed by a car in Sydney’s south-west.
Emergency services were called to the intersection of Joseph and Gilbert streets, Cabramatta at about 3.15pm on Wednesday after reports of a crash, New South Wales police said.
Continue reading...The family of Leah Stewart is braced for more bad news and the impact on her 18-month-old daughter
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The family of the woman critically injured in Saturday’s horrific shark attack at Coogee beach is still coming to terms with the catastrophic scope of her injuries and the heartbreaking impact on her toddler.
Leah Stewart, a 35-year-old primary school teacher, mother and dedicated ocean swimmer, remained on life support in the intensive care unit at St Vincent’s hospital after being mauled by a suspected 3.5-metre great white shark.
Continue reading...NSW police say suicide note and ‘other evidence’ suggest six-year-old’s death was an act of domestic violence
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A suicide note has been located after the bodies of a young girl and her father were pulled from the Parramatta River on Saturday.
The six-year-old may have been deliberately thrown in the water by the man from a hired boat in what police believe was a horrific act of domestic violence.
Continue reading...Charlie Verco managed to grab hold of the woman and bring her back to shore after the Sydney shark attack on Saturday
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Elite paddleboarder Charlie Verco has only seen one shark bigger than the one he saw on Saturday at Sydney’s Coogee beach.
The North Bondi athlete was training for July’s world championships in Hawaii on Saturday morning when he heard a swimmer shouting “shark”.
Continue reading...A woman in her 30s has been transported to hospital with arm and leg injuries and beaches in Sydney’s east have been closed after the attack
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A woman in her 30s is in a critical condition after being bitten by a large shark at Coogee beach on Saturday, with a witness describing the scene at the popular Sydney beach as “shocking”.
A spokesperson for New South Wales Ambulance said the woman suffered arm and leg injuries and had been taken by road to St Vincent’s hospital.
Continue reading...New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon is among witnesses expected to appear at the six-week trial in July next year
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Twenty-five people who were charged after they protested against the visit of the Israeli president will face a six-week joint trial in July next year.
The protesters had their matters heard before Downing centre local court on Thursday after their lawyers made a successful application for the joint hearing, arguing there were common legal issues across the cases.
Continue reading...Labor MP Ernest Wong and restaurateur Jonathan Yee are facing court over allegedly circumventing election funding laws
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New South Wales prosecutors have launched proceedings against two state Labor officials after they allegedly disguised donations to Chris Minns during his election campaign almost a decade ago.
On Tuesday, the NSW Electoral Commission revealed the director of public prosecution had begun proceedings against former Labor MP Ernest Wong and restaurateur Jonathan Yee. The commission commenced an investigation in 2019 into a “potential scheme to circumvent” election funding laws during the campaign to elect Minns for the seat of Kogarah.
Continue reading...Fireworks displays will replace all drone shows at the iconic festival after a technical issue saw dozens fall from the sky on Monday night
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Vivid Sydney has cancelled all remaining drone shows after 83 fell from the sky into Darling Harbour this week, prompting a “full assessment” of the aerial light show.
On Monday, audiences looked on as a performance called Star-Bound suddenly went awry, with “unforeseen technical difficulties” causing 83 drones to plunge into the waters of Cockle Bay and six to land on a boardwalk. No injuries were reported.
Continue reading...A 42-year-old fled from police before being involved in a two-vehicle crash in Sans Souci, police say
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Three people have died in a crash in Sydney after a man fled from police who had been attempting to carry out a welfare check.
Police officers had been called to a property in Gymea Bay, southern Sydney, at 12.25am on Saturday. When they arrived, a 42-year-old man drove away in a white Audi, New South Wales police said.
Continue reading...Police allege man took camera equipment from 61-year-old shooting victim then pawned it
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New South Wales police have charged a man for allegedly stealing camera equipment from one of the victims of the Bondi beach terror attack in the aftermath of the shooting.
In a statement, police alleged that the man, Danny James Ridley, had been at the Hanukah event before the shooting on 14 December, in which 15 people were killed.
Continue reading...NSW police establish crime scene at Canley Heights home after two pairs of men present at different hospitals
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One man has died in hospital and four others have been left in serious condition after a shooting at a home.
Police set up a crime scene at a home in Canley Heights in south-west Sydney after the men self-presented to two nearby hospitals.
Continue reading...NSW police called to home in Campbelltown where they arrested a man, aged 47
A man has been charged with murder after the bodies of a woman and two children were found inside a Sydney home.
Officers attended the home in Campbelltown, in the city’s south-west, on Monday night “following a call from the home to triple zero” at about 7.50pm, New South Wales police said.
Continue reading...Redevelopment of the former Department of Lands building on Sydney’s Bridge Street wins National Trust heritage award
It was once a grand old sandstone masterpiece, where returned soldiers would cram into marble corridors to anxiously await lottery draws that could change their lives.
Then the 20th century happened.
Continue reading...Barrister for actor Charlotte MacInnes, who is suing the Pitch Perfect star for defamation, also accused Wilson of ‘a complete revision of history’. Wilson has rejected defamation claims
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Rebel Wilson has been accused in court of being a liar who made up terrible claims about her colleagues and completely rewrote history.
The Pitch Perfect star copped the blunt assessment in the dying hours of a fiery defamation battle where she is being sued by Charlotte MacInnes, the lead actor in musical comedy The Deb which Wilson directed, co-produced and starred in.
Continue reading...On its fourth day of public hearings, royal commission into antisemitism also hears Jewish Australians have been pressured to resign and verbally abused
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Jewish Australians have been told to use “less obviously Jewish” names, felt pressure to resign and been verbally abused by colleagues in the wake of 7 October 2023.
On its fourth day of public hearings, the antisemitism royal commission also heard evidence from Australia’s antisemitism envoy, who said hatred towards Jews had become “almost fashionable”, while a Sydney nurse said New South Wales Health was “not safe for Jewish people”.
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