Category Archives: Sydney

Man shot dead in Canterbury in Sydney’s second ‘targeted shooting’ in two days

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Latest victim is fifth person shot this week, fanning fears city’s underworld gang wars are escalating

A man has been shot dead in Sydney’s south-west, just hours after a high-profile criminal lawyer was shot and injured in the driveway of his home.

The latest victim is the fifth person shot this week, fanning fears the city’s underworld gang wars are escalating.

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Sydney deputy school principal jailed for sexual chats with ‘teenage girl’

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Damian Wanstell was arrested after sending explicit texts to undercover police posing as 14-year-old

A former deputy principal has been jailed after sending protracted sexually explicit chats to someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl.

In sentencing Damian Scott Wanstall on Wednesday, judge Andrew Colefax asked how, as a father, he could discuss sexual acts and arrange to meet up with someone so young for that purpose.

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High-profile lawyer Mahmoud Abbas shot outside Sydney home in ‘targeted’ attack

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Emergency services found criminal defence lawyer with gunshot wounds after a shooting in Greenacre

A high-profile Sydney lawyer has been shot outside a home in what police believe is a targeted attack.

Emergency services were called to a home on Narelle Crescent in the south-west Sydney suburb of Greenacre at about 10.25am on Wednesday after reports of shots being fired.

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‘Tragic accident’: tech entrepreneur presumed dead after boat incident off Sydney Harbour

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Body of art dealer Tim Klingender, 59, found amid debris from fishing boat at base of The Gap but Andrew Findlay, 51, still missing

Police will continue the search for a second man lost overboard in a fishing boat accident off Sydney Harbour on Thursday, but say they do not believe he could have survived.

The body of the art dealer Tim Klingender, 59, was found on Thursday, after his borrowed fishing boat was discovered overturned and broken up on the rocks at the base of The Gap off South Head, near the entrance to Sydney Harbour.

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Search continues for entrepreneur after Sydney boat crash – as it happened

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Police extend search for Andrew Findlay after body of art dealer Tim Klingender was found. This blog is now closed

A man and woman will face court today in Melbourne accused of murder after the body of a man in his 40s was found in a city street, AAP reports.

Police say the charges follow an alleged incident at a home near Glen Waverley train line in Binalong Avenue, Chadstone on Tuesday, where a man in his 40s was fatally assaulted.

It can be a sensitive and confronting topic for many people so it is important that any future legislation is done through intensive and thorough consultation with all Territorians.

This is an imperative step forward for the Territory and I am honoured to play my part in this important consultation process.

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Australian art dealer Tim Klingender found dead in Sydney Harbour following boating incident

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Police recovered the body of Klingender, who was employed by Sotheby’s for two decades, off Watson’s Bay in Sydney on Thursday

The Australian art world is in shock after the body of art dealer Tim Klingender was recovered from waters off Sydney’s Watsons Bay on Thursday morning.

NSW police’s Marine Area Command found a man’s body floating among debris at around 10.20am on Thursday, following what is believed to be a boating accident.

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Dramatic police chase through Sydney suburbs ends in crash

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A 39-year-old male driver and 37-year-old female passenger were arrested after the lengthy chase ended near Parramatta

A US-style police pursuit of a car allegedly speeding through the suburbs of Sydney has ended with the arrests of a man and a woman after they crashed in the city’s south-west.

The chase was sparked on Thursday when New South Wales police officers detected a suspected stolen vehicle travelling on the Hume Highway in Prestons, south-west of Liverpool, about 9.30am.

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NSW police lose court bid to exclude Scott Johnson killing from gay hate inquiry

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Force had argued Johnson’s death was outside terms of reference because case was solved with man sentenced for manslaughter earlier this year

A bid by New South Wales police to exclude a high-profile killing from a gay hate inquiry has been rejected.

The death of US mathematician Scott Johnson is one of dozens of cases under the spotlight at a special commission of inquiry into suspected gay hate crimes in Sydney between 1970 and 2010.

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Indigenous voice no campaign targets religious voters who opposed marriage equality

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The no campaign plans to tap into the ‘unheard majority’ in Sydney, believing there is a bloc of socially conservative religious voters ripe for its messages

The no campaign in the referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament is targeting migrant communities and parts of Sydney that voted strongly against marriage equality in the 2017 postal vote, Warren Mundine has said.

The campaign believes there is a cohort of religious and socially conservative voters who are open to its messaging on implications of the voice.

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Sydney’s unseasonably warm weather set to stay as BoM continues ‘El Niño’ watch

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The Bureau of Meteorology’s long-range forecast expects more warm weather for the east coast, with Sydney hitting a top of 23C on Saturday

Sydney is expected to hit 23C on Saturday, with the unseasonably warm weather forecast to continue for the rest of the winter.

Hugh McDowell, a meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, said the bureau’s long-range forecast showed Sydney could expect more unseasonable temperatures.

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Rooty Hill death: Dusan Rakic charged with murder after ex-wife’s body found in Sydney

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Police allege former husband also breached his bail and an AVO, after Christine Formosa Rakic’s body was found in Western Sydney home

A Sydney man allegedly breached his bail before killing his ex-wife, leaving her family in tremendous pain and disbelief.

Christine Formosa Rakic was found dead in a Rooty Hill home on Tuesday night in the latest of a spate of alleged domestic violence-related deaths across Sydney in recent weeks.

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Ex-girlfriend of Australian boxer Harry Garside charged with common assault

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Ashley Ruscoe arrested on Wednesday after investigation into alleged domestic violence incident at a Sydney home on 1 March

The ex-girlfriend of Australian boxer Harry Garside has been charged with assaulting him after charges of domestic violence were dropped against the Olympian.

Ashley Ruscoe, 35, was arrested and taken to Waverley police station on Wednesday, when she was charged with domestic violence-related offences.

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In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. If you or someone you know is affected by sexual assault, family or domestic violence, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or visit www.1800RESPECT.org.au. In an emergency, call 000. International helplines can be found via www.befrienders.org.

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Elderly man and woman die in ‘intense’ Wetherill Park house fire in Sydney’s west

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Man, 81, and 75-year-old woman pulled from home on Lily Street by firefighters but pair could not be revived

Two elderly people have died after being pulled from a “thick and intense” house fire in Sydney’s west this morning.

Fire and rescue were called to a two-level home in Lily Street, Wetherill Park, at 6.42am.

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Woman found dead at western Sydney home as man found with critical injuries

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NSW police, who were called to Rooty Hill property, say the woman is believed to be in her 50s

A woman has been killed in a suspected domestic violence attack at a western Sydney home.

Police were called to the property at Rooty Hill about 8.15pm on Tuesday with concerns for the woman’s welfare.

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Controversial Sydney developer goes into administration as police search for owner Jean Nassif

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Administrator appointed to Toplace a month after arrest warrant issued for Nassif

A major Sydney development firm owned by accused fraudster and fugitive Jean Nassif has gone into administration.

Records filed with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission show an administrator was appointed to his company, Toplace Pty Ltd, on Monday.

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Keating calls Nato head a ‘supreme fool’ over plan to open office in Asia – as it happened

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Racist throwback to Jim Crow days in America

Burney says the advert that ran in the Financial Review encouraging a “no” vote on the referendum over the Indigenous voice to parliament was “totally unacceptable”.

I think Matt Kean, the Shadow Health Minister in New South Wales, really nailed it, David, where he likened it to a racist throwback from the Jim Crow days in America, but it was also incredibly sexist and it is something in the words of Matt Kean, the ‘no‘camp has every right to have a say, but there are better ways of doing it.

I know Aboriginal Australia and I know that people know what the important issues - things like what I’ve identified - education, health, housing, jobs - and Josie Douglas who is this remarkable Aboriginal woman in the central land council put it perfectly: We are about changing lives, not changing dates.

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Sydney man faces domestic violence and animal cruelty charges after dead rabbits found at unit

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Police to allege 21-year-old assaulted and threatened 20-year-old woman who was known to him

A New South Wales man is facing 33 charges for a range of offences including domestic violence and animal cruelty, after police found a number of dead rabbits at his property.

The 21-year-old man allegedly on numerous occasions assaulted and threatened a 20-year-old woman who was known to him. The man also allegedly filmed the woman during an intimate act without consent and threatened to release the vision, NSW police said in a statement.

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In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. If you or someone you know is affected by sexual assault, family or domestic violence, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or visit www.1800RESPECT.org.au. In an emergency, call 000. International helplines can be found via www.befrienders.org.

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Marrickville shooting: two men shot at hairdresser in Sydney in ‘brazen’ daytime attack

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NSW police say shots were fired at a business on the busy main street of inner-west suburb on Friday afternoon

Witnesses to a brazen shooting at a hairdresser in the Sydney suburb of Marrickville at lunchtime on Friday have described seeing the two victims talking after they had been shot and residents fleeing for safety.

Police said the shooting at a salon on Marrickville Road, the inner-west suburb’s bustling main strip, at 1.50pm, was “obviously a targeted attack” and were exploring whether it was linked to another daylight shooting in Bondi Junction last month. The victim in that shooting was Sydney drug kingpin Alen Moradian.

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Rents rise again across Australia with Sydney seeing fastest rise in 20 years

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Median unit in harbour city now costs more than median house in every other capital, Domain says, as immigration adds to rental ‘pressure cooker’

Rents continued to climb across Australia in the June quarter, particularly in the biggest cities, with a median unit costing more to rent in Sydney than a median house in every other state capital, data from Domain showed.

A record migrant intake that will swell the nation’s population by 715,000 people over two years and a return of overseas students and temporary visa holders will add to the “rental pressure cooker”, Domain said in its quarterly report. About 127,000 additional dwellings will be needed this financial year alone.

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Former deputy mayor Salim Mehajer found guilty of fraud offences after forging signatures

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Ex-Auburn councillor found guilty in Sydney court of four counts of making or using false documents to obtain financial advantage

A bankrupt former deputy mayor of a Sydney council has been found guilty of fraud offences after forging the signatures of his ex-lawyer and sister.

Salim Mehajer, 37, forged his former solicitor Zali Burrows’ signature on two separate documents, one of which claimed to witness a statutory declaration from his sister Zenha Osman, whose signature he also forged, a New South Wales district court jury decided after deliberating for just over four hours.

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