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[Link] How drug smugglers are trying to outsmart border officials at Australian ports
Read: 10/5/2022 www.abc.net.au
International crime syndicates are attempting to smuggle drugs into the country strapped to the hulls of cargo ships to evade detection, police say. Once the ship arrives at the port, scuba divers are standing by to collect the contraband.
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[Link] Man charged over string of historical sexual assaults in inner-west Sydney
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
More than 15 years after “the inner-west rapist” terrified Sydney, attacking women in their own homes, a DNA breakthrough has led to a man being charged. NSW police arrested a 51-year-old man at dawn in Panania, in Sydney’s south on Monday and charged him with four historical sexual assaults.
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[Link] NSW laws criminalising secret recordings of animal cruelty ‘too great a burden on speech’, high court hears
Read: 26/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Laws criminalising the use of secretly recorded vision of animal cruelty and abuse are posing “too great a burden on speech”, animal rights activists have told the high court.
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[Link] This is what we know about William Tyrrell case
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
For seven years, the case of the missing boy dressed in a Spider-Man costume has confounded the state's top detectives. Three-year-old William Tyrrell appeared to have vanished without a trace from his foster grandmother's house at Kendall on the NSW Mid-North Coast.
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[Link] Father and Son Gunned Down in Broad Daylight in ‘Gangland’ Shooting
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Eighteen-year-old Salim Hamze was already dead by the time authorities arrived at the scene on Thursday morning, following multiple reports of what sounded like gunshots in an otherwise quiet western Sydney street. His father, Toufik, was slumped over in the utility truck beside him.
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[Link] Icac documents: Mike Baird staffer questioned why Berejiklian wanted to spend $5.5m in ‘safe seat’ of Wagga Wagga
Read: 20/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
One of former New South Wales premier Mike Baird’s top staff members questioned why then-treasurer Gladys Berejiklian wanted to spend $5.
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[Link] ‘Cult’ Leader’s Widow Accused of Grooming Girls for Him to Abuse
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The leader of what police have described as a “cult” has been accused of grooming young girls to be sexually abused by her husband. Jan Hamilton and her late husband Ken Dyers co-founded Australian personal development group Kenja Communications in 1982.
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