Category Archives: New South Wales

NSW council refuses to show world-renowned Gaza artwork over ‘unacceptable’ safety risk

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Exclusive: Shoalhaven council says Wall of Tears installation by Phil Buehler posed risk to staff, visitors and tenants

A New South Wales local council has refused to show a world-renowned artwork about children killed in Gaza after asking organisers to investigate hiring “armed guards” to counter the risk of “community conflict” over the mural.

The group, Shoalhaven Friends of Palestine, was aiming to show the Wall of Tears installation by American artist Phil Buehler at the Shoalhaven Regional Gallery in Nowra on Tuesday, following the work being exhibited around Australia, including on the front lawns of Parliament House in Canberra in September.

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Disquiet grows in Albanese’s back yard as Grayndler artists unite against ‘insane’ AI proposal

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Inner west Sydney seat has long been safely held by the PM – but potential changes to copyright laws are angering its large creative community

The prime minister is facing growing discontent within his own electorate as creatives push back against the federal government’s proposal to allow AI companies to scrape everything Australians create online.

Anthony Albanese’s seat of Grayndler in Sydney’s inner west is home to more than 3,000 cultural and creative businesses, and 10% of its workers are employed in cultural and creative fields – compared with 4.2% nationally.

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Storm warnings for Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane as cold front ‘packs a punch’

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BoM predicts hail, damaging winds and possible flash flooding across Victoria, NSW and parts of Queensland into Sunday

Storm warnings are in place for multiple capital cities across Australia’s east and south-east as a severe weather front sweeps across the country.

Heavy rain, winds and thunderstorms are forecast to hit Melbourne and eastern Victoria throughout Saturday afternoon as a cold front meets warm, humid air.

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Former Sydney childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith hit with 202 more abuse charges

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NSW police say charges include child rape and relate to 23 alleged victims aged between one and five at a Sydney childcare centre

One of Australia’s most notorious paedophiles is facing hundreds more child abuse charges, including for the alleged rape of children as young as one.

Days after being extradited from Queensland to New South Wales, Ashley Paul Griffith was hit with 202 charges dating from between 2014 and 2017, with police labelling the allegations “deeply disturbing”.

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Menindee Lakes water levels drop to lowest in five years as experts warn of mass fish deaths

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NSW government imposes water restrictions after Menindee water volumes fall below 2021 levels

Water levels at the Menindee Lakes in western New South Wales have fallen to their lowest point in five years, prompting the state government to impose upstream water use restrictions as experts warn of potential mass fish deaths over summer.

Combined volume at the Menindee Lakes fell below 480 gigalitres earlier this month, the first time since 2021.

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Beau Lamarre-Condon tells jury he wanted to report deaths but friend encouraged him to dispose of bodies

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NSW police officer accused of murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies tells court he wanted to do ‘right thing’ by their families

Beau Lamarre-Condon has accused a friend of encouraging him to dispose of the bodies of two men “straight away”, despite him wanting to report the deaths to police, according to his first statement to his double murder trial.

Lamarre-Condon, 31, is accused of fatally shooting couple Jesse Baird and Luke Davies with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024.

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‘Unusually large’ multi-state storm causing severe weather for Australia’s east – with more on the way

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BoM predicts hail, damaging winds, flash flooding and power outages across southern Queensland, western NSW, the ACT and eastern Victoria on Sunday afternoon

Large parts of eastern Australia were put on alert for severe thunderstorms on Sunday afternoon with more potential storms and flood risk in store for Monday.

The Bureau of Meteorology said a broad line of storms had already swept through western New South Wales, while eight flood warnings were in place across southern Queensland after days of torrential rain.

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Mother sought advice from Alan Jones after broadcaster’s alleged indecent assault of her son, court hears

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Jones, 85, has pleaded not guilty to 21 charges of indecent assault and sexual touching

The mother of the youngest alleged victim of Alan Jones continued to seek advice from the broadcaster after the teenager was allegedly indecently assaulted at Jones’s Fitzroy Falls farm, a Sydney court has heard.

The divorced mother told the Downing Centre court she had developed a pattern of not trusting herself and she continued her correspondence with Jones because: “I knew he knew about everything; he had an opinion about everything.

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Sydney man charged after alleged gunfire prompted Dulwich Hill lockdown

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Police responding to reports of an alleged stolen car in Dulwich Hill were told a man was armed with a firearm

An alleged gunman with “shaggy hair” has been arrested following reports of a confrontation about an allegedly stolen car which was set on fire prompting him to flee the scene.

The 32-year-old man was arrested late Sunday in Sydney’s inner west, after being on the run since Friday morning, following an appeal by the police.

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Court overturns Tanya Plibersek’s protection order which stalled controversial NSW goldmine

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Federal court overrules decision by former environment minister for the McPhillamys goldmine development at Blayney

The federal court has overturned a rare protection order issued by former environment minister Tanya Plibersek under Indigenous heritage legislation, which the company said effectively blocked a controversial goldmine in the central west of New South Wales.

Regis Resources challenged the decision by the former minister to issue the order in 2024 under section 10 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act.

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Rescued turtles return home after NSW government cut flows to wetland

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Environmental water to the area was halted after a complaint from a private landholder, leading to the deaths of wildlife and sheep

Freshwater turtles rescued from a dried-up water hole in western New South Wales after the state government cut environmental water to the area are being returned home.

Late last month, 10 broad-shelled turtles and three Murray River turtles were released back into the Gingham water hole in the state’s Gwydir region.

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‘That is a lie’: alleged Alan Jones victim denies family tried to get money out of broadcaster, court hears

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Youngest complainant in trial alleges Jones put his tongue in his mouth and touched him on the bottom during visit to shock jock’s property

An alleged teenage victim of Alan Jones has denied his family tried to deceive the broadcaster and get as much money out of him as they could during a tense cross-examination in a Sydney court.

Asked whether he was intent on getting as much financial assistance as he could from the former 2GB host, the witness replied: “That is a lie.”

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Jurors in Beau Lamarre-Condon murder trial shown photo of alleged ‘execution-style’ gunshot wound

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Former NSW police officer has pleaded not guilty to the February 2024 murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in Sydney

Marks made by a gun at close proximity were found on Jesse Baird after his decomposing body was discovered, a jury has heard.

Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to the February 2024 murders of Baird, his ex-partner, and the TV presenter’s new partner, Luke Davies.

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Detective breaks down in court as she recalls finding Beau Lamarre-Condon’s alleged murder victims

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Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in Sydney in February 2024

A detective has broken down in court while describing the moment she found the bodies of two men allegedly murdered by former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon.

Jesse Baird, 26, and his new boyfriend Luke Davies, 29, were shot dead in a Sydney terrace in February 2024.

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Detective breaks down in court as she recalls finding Beau Lamarre-Condon’s alleged murder victims

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Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in Sydney in February 2024

A detective has broken down in court while describing the moment she found the bodies of two men allegedly murdered by former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon.

Jesse Baird, 26, and his new boyfriend Luke Davies, 29, were shot dead in a Sydney terrace in February 2024.

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Woman’s body found in stockyard trough close to NSW-Queensland border

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Police say body found by trail bike riders at remote farm in Terragon is badly decomposed, sparking search of missing persons records

A partially submerged body believed to be a woman has been discovered in a remote stockyard, with the death being treated as suspicious.

Officers were called to a property in Terragon, near Murwillumbah in northern NSW, at about 11.20am on Monday after reports of a dead body.

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Man shot dead after crashing car and allegedly pointing gun at NSW police

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Officers were responding to reports a car had driven into a tree 84km north of Yass on Sunday

A man has been shot dead by police in regional New South Wales after allegedly aiming a loaded rifle at officers responding to a car crash.

NSW police officers were responding to reports a car had driven into a tree on a road 84km north of Yass at about 2.50pm on Sunday.

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Five-year-old girl in a coma and P-plater charged after car hits crowd of NRL fans in Newcastle

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Man charged with nine offences after vehicle struck Knights fans attending grand final farewell, leaving 10 injured including three children

Ten people have been injured, one critically, after a car crashed into a crowd of people in Newcastle waiting to farewell the Knights team bus before the NRL grand final.

New South Wales police said a five-year-old girl remained in a critical but stable condition in an induced coma after the crash on Saturday morning.

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Bruce Baird, former federal Liberal MP and NSW minister, dies aged 84

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Baird, father of former NSW premier Mike Baird and journalist Julia Baird, helped win the Olympics for Sydney

Bruce Baird, a former federal Liberal MP and deputy leader of the party’s New South Wales branch, has died aged 84.

Baird, who also served as the NSW transport minister from 1988 to 1995, is the father of former state premier Mike Baird, the ABC journalist Julia Baird, and the marketing executive Steve Baird.

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OpenAI disclose another hack on government department in Australia

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Attack accessing historical data on bushfires occurred in June but not disclosed by the tech company until Thursday

Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has disclosed another unauthorised hack on a government department in Australia.

In June, an OpenAI agent hacked into a New South Wales state government department and accessed historical non-public data on bushfires without authorisation.

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