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[Link] Passengers escorted off Qantas flight by police after Sydney airport security breach
Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com
All passengers on a Qantas flight from Sydney Wednesday evening were escorted off the plane by police to the unscreened area of Melbourne airport, after one passenger managing to bypass screening. Just got off Qantas flight QF487, Sydney to Melbourne.
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[Link] High-profile Liberal woman quits party to run as independent after alleging ‘inappropriate’ behaviour
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A high-profile NSW Liberal woman is quitting to run as an independent at the next federal election, partly to protest the handling of an internal complaint in which she alleged “inappropriate” behaviour by some senior men within the party and government.
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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] 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] Retirement village owner uses squatters’ rights in court bid to claim Sydney property
Read: 22/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
The operator of a private retirement village attempted to stop a woman taking possession of her deceased grandparents’ land on the fringes of Sydney, claiming it as their own using squatters’ rights.
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[Link] Wealthy people calling for a tougher lockdown got what they wanted, at no cost to them
Read: 22/8/2021 www.smh.com.au
I live in a local government area “of concern”. The news from Friday’s press conference ricocheted around my community like a bullet. There were tears, disbelief, anger.
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[Link] NSW police fine 600 people on first day of Covid crackdown blitz
Read: 18/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
New South Wales police issued nearly 600 infringement notices to people flouting tough new health orders on the first day of a three-week crackdown designed to get the state’s escalating Covid crisis under control.
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[Link] 'We don't deserve to be treated like this': Sydney nurse speaks out about alleged assault at COVID testing clinic
Read: 13/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The female healthcare worker told police she was working at the Dundas testing clinic on Monday when she was approached by an unknown man who was not wearing a mask. It is alleged the man began filming the 31-year-old worker on his mobile phone before verbally abusing her about vaccinations.
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[Link] Sydney assault: five teenagers charged with murder after boy, 16, dies in hospital
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Five teenagers, including two as young as 13, have been charged with murder after the death of a 16-year-old boy found with severe injuries in Sydney. The boy was found unresponsive with head and chest injuries in a home in Doonside on Wednesday afternoon.
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[Link] Bullying claims at army’s Sydney University regiment referred to defence force inspector general
Read: 6/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Allegations of bullying and harassment at the Australian army’s Sydney University regiment have been referred to the inspector general of the defence force for potential investigation.
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[Link] In the city, they fly along routes that mirror roads
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
Every evening in Sydney, clouds of bats move across the sky.
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