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.
Continue reading...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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Continue reading...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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Continue reading...Exclusive: civil proceedings against the state were initially filed while aged care resident was still fighting for her life in hospital
The family of 95-year-old Clare Nowland, who died in May after being allegedly Tasered by police in an aged care home, is suing the New South Wales government.
The civil case against the state was listed to appear for the first time before a court in Bega in south-east NSW on Tuesday morning.
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Continue reading...Exclusive: General manager says chemical analysis shows ‘slight overlap’ of mine lead and samples from local residents’ rainwater tanks
Chemical analysis has identified the Cadia Hill goldmine as a potential source of some of the lead found in samples collected from nearby residential rainwater tanks in central west New South Wales, the mine’s management has said.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority has been investigating the goldmine – one of the largest in the world – since May, when it issued Newcrest’s Cadia Holdings Pty Ltd with a draft pollution prevention notice and a draft licence variation regarding its management of emissions of dust and other pollutants. It followed local residents, including children, reporting heavy metals in their blood and rainwater tanks.
Continue reading...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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Continue reading...Prof Brigid Heywood has pleaded not guilty to assault and offensive behaviour for allegedly wiping her spit on the girl’s face
A teenager who was allegedly subjected to offensive conduct by the former vice-chancellor of the University of New England has told a court she was “racially assaulted”.
Prof Brigid Heywood is alleged to have licked her finger and wiped it twice on the teenager’s face and made comments about her skin colour at an International Women’s Day event in Armidale on 8 March 2022.
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Continue reading...Prof Brigid Heywood is accused of wiping her spit on a teenager’s face during an International Women’s Day event in 2022
The former University of New England vice-chancellor Prof Brigid Heywood’s legal team have applied for the magistrate hearing her assault case to recuse himself, claiming he displayed a “lack of calmness and objectivity”.
Heywood, a British-Australian biological scientist, is alleged to have wiped her saliva on a teenager’s face and commented on her skin colour at a council-run International Women’s Day event in March 2022. She was a panellist at the event.
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Continue reading...Kristian White was charged with recklessly causing grievous bodily harm to 95-year-old grandmother
A magistrate has berated prosecutors for allowing the police officer accused of Tasering a 95-year-old grandmother not to appear in person before court.
Snr Constable Kristian White appeared before the Cooma local court via video link on Wednesday over the Tasering of Clare Nowland, who later died from injuries sustained in the incident.
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Continue reading...Prof Brigid Heywood has pleaded not guilty to charges of assault and offensive behaviour over an alleged incident in March 2022
A teenager who was allegedly assaulted and subjected to offensive behaviour by the former vice-chancellor of the University of New England at an International Women’s Day event last year has told a court that the incident left her feeling “ degraded and belittled”.
Prof Brigid Heywood, 65, a British-Australian biological scientist, is alleged to have wiped her saliva on a teenager’s face and commented on her skin colour at a council-run International Women’s Day event on 8 May 2022. She was a panellist at the event.
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Continue reading...NSW police say remains found in cars in Royal national park south of the city and in western suburb of North Parramatta
Human remains have been found in two burnt-out cars in two different parts of Sydney, but police said the two incidents were not thought to be linked.
Skeletal remains were found inside a burnt-out four-wheel drive in a national park south of Sydney early Tuesday morning.
Continue reading...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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Continue reading...Prices rise amid concerns from competition watchdog over Transurban’s proposed acquisition of operator of Melbourne’s EastLink
Commuters on toll roads in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne will notice price hikes on Monday due to long-term contracts with tolling giant Transurban.
The price rises come as the competition watchdog flags concerns the private operator could also become dominant in Melbourne.
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Continue reading...Research suggests buried carcass unlikely to attract sharks so long as it is placed above water table and high tide mark
A 30-tonne humpback whale has been buried in the dunes behind where it beached and died on Seven Mile beach on the New South Wales mid-north coast.
The adult whale became stranded early on Saturday morning and, despite attempts by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to save it, died about 7pm.
Continue reading...Icac finds former premier and Daryl Maguire engaged in ‘serious corrupt conduct’, but says it does not want the DPP to consider prosecuting Berejiklian. Follow live updates
We are waiting on the publication of the Icac report. But it appears the Icac website has crashed under the load.
Stay with us. We will bring you the findings as soon as we possibly can.
Continue reading...Berejiklian stood down in 2021 after it was revealed she was in a ‘close personal relationship’ with Maguire, who was also found to be corrupt by Icac’s Operation Keppel
Former New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian has been found to have engaged in serious corrupt conduct by the state’s corruption watchdog.
However the Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) has not recommended charges be pursued against Berejiklian.
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Continue reading...John Russell was found to have died in an accidental fall, but his case is one of three being re-examined this week in a NSW special inquiry
More than 30 years after police concluded John Russell accidentally fell to his death near Bondi beach, it’s now believed the 31-year-old was a victim of a fatal gay hate attack.
His death is one of three being examined this week by a New South Wales special inquiry into LGBTQ+ hate crimes.
Continue reading...Police are investigating a possible link between the alleged shooting and a burnt-out car in Zetland
A police operation is under way in Sydney’s eastern suburbs after reports shots were fired on Tuesday morning.
A spokesperson for New South Wales Ambulance confirmed they had multiple vehicles also on the scene.
Continue reading...Modelling along planned flight paths suggest zones will be subject to noise pollution in excess of 70db, or washing machine-level
A 20km stretch of land surrounding the future western Sydney airport will be subjected to noise levels similar to or louder than a washing machine or vacuum cleaner more than 100 times a day by 2040, preliminary flight path analysis shows.
Proposed flight paths released on Tuesday have been designed to avoid areas either currently or projected to be densely populated in coming decades, ahead of the airport beginning operations in late 2026.
Continue reading...Decision could make inmates’ contact with family and friends unaffordable, despite studies showing it reduces recidivism
For two years Lisa Maloney has paid about $40 every four months so her son can call her every day from a prison in New South Wales. Now she will be paying about $300 after the state’s correctional services banned affordable phone call options run by third-party services.
“I’ll keep paying but I’m worried about others who won’t be able to afford to contact their loved ones as much,” said Maloney, who lives on a pension in north-west Victoria and can’t afford to visit her son in Lithgow.
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