The heartbreaking statement from father of boys killed in Blue Mountains tragedy
Ben and Russell were allegedly killed at the hands of their mother. Their distraught father Nick Smith has remembered his “happy, funny and outgoing boys”.
- by Jessica McSweeney, Sally Rawsthorne and Amber Schultz
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Police await doctors’ clearance to interview mother over death of her two sons
The woman who police believe stabbed her two young sons to death at their Blue Mountains home has written extensively about her own mental health.
- by Amber Schultz, Sally Rawsthorne and Riley Walter
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Heartbreaking images of family emerge after mother arrested over boys’ deaths
Photos showed an apparently happy, loving family before two boys were found dead in a Blue Mountains home and their mother arrested.
- by Amber Schultz, Riley Walter and Sally Rawsthorne
‘You all think you’re such gangsters’: Magistrate slams Bondi dial-a-dealer
The magistrate savaged the western Sydney teenager, saying “we’re sick” of dealers coming to the eastern suburbs with their encrypted phones.
- by Amber Schultz
Driver speeding to casino before Anzac Bridge double fatal crash, jury told
Adeeb Sukkar was allegedly weaving in and out of traffic before he crashed into two people who had stopped to exchange details following an accident.
- by Sarah McPhee and Amber Schultz
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School bus driver charged with assaulting children with disabilities
Detectives arrested the 51-year-old after reports he had allegedly touched two children while driving them to a school in western Sydney.
- by Riley Walter and Amber Schultz
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Former prison officer’s DNA allegedly found on child’s underwear
Gary Waddell, who was a member of the NSW Corrective Services Honour Guard, is accused of sexually touching a child and possessing child abuse material.
- by Amber Schultz
New laws protect 600,000 workers from deadly dust, but they come too late for Joanna
New laws give workers exposed to respiratory crystalline silica dust the right to demand multiple safety control measures.
- by Amber Schultz
As it happened: CFMEU workers walk off job across nation; international student caps announced
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- by Amber Schultz and Caroline Schelle
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Brave bystander suffered 20cm laceration in Sydney stabbing rampage
Antony Benson, 58, is facing eight charges including intent to murder after allegedly slashing his partner with a box cutter and attacking five others.
- by Perry Duffin and Amber Schultz
‘Terrifying potency’: The overdose-inducing drug invading suburbia
The number of unintentional opioid overdose deaths in Australia has continued to grow, the latest data shows.
- by Amber Schultz