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Former special forces corporal Ben Roberts-Smith was arrested at Sydney’s domestic airport and escorted off a Brisbane-bound plane last week.

Veteran’s bombshell claim on Roberts-Smith ‘ambush’ arrest

The police are expected to oppose releasing the famous SAS soldier on bail Friday, while a former colleague slammed his public arrest as an ‘ambush’.

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Sunset above Rainforest of Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia. Getty Images

The Forest & The Feast: Australia’s best kept secret

Luscious national parks, volcanic mountain ranges, a culinary scene that’s an Australian regional stand-out — ‘the Tweed’ goes about its business largely unnoticed. At least for now.

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Police said they were closing in on convicted child rapist Michael Angok.

Police close in on fugitive child rapist

Disturbing new details about his violent past have emerged as the manhunt enters its third day.

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Unrest is brewing inside Federal Police ranks about how former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith was arrested at Sydney airport this week.

BRS airport arrest labelled ‘grandstanding’ by Feds insider

Unrest is brewing inside Federal Police ranks about how former soldier Ben Roberts-Smith was arrested at Sydney airport this week.

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Koby Weaver, who stomped on an off-duty police officer's head, has been jailed. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

'Barbaric': Sickening moment man stomps on cop's face

Three men have been sentenced after they brutally assaulted two off-duty police officers in a violent altercation captured in a horrifying video.

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Gofal Baziad with Renny Palmer. Ms Palmer is not accused of any wrongdoing. Supplied.

‘Love triangle’: Man accused of murdering ex-lover’s husband

A man involved in a ‘love triangle’ allegedly murdered his ex-lover’s husband and dumped his body in a river in southwestern Sydney, a court has been told.

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Indigenous families allege they were racially discriminated against at a regional public pool.

Human rights agency steps in over Indigenous pool ban

A formal racial discrimination complaint will be investigated after a group of First Nations families were ordered to leave a country town's public pool.

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A second midwife is facing court after police broadened their investigation into a home birth death in the Hunter region.

Second midwife charged over tragic home birth death

A second midwife has been charged months after an influencer midwife was accused of the death of a newborn following a home birth on the coast.

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A coal mine south of Newcastle has received the green light to operate until the end of 2029.

Coal mine extension approved as net-zero deadline looms

An underground coal mine will be allowed to continue extracting for two extra years, but new restrictions will prevent the coal from being shipped overseas.

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Major manhunt underway after inmate escapes custody

A major hunt is underway after a 30-year-old inmate escaped custody from a Sydney prison while being transported to hospital.

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A patient was allegedly attacked with a hammer at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney.

Hospital horror as patient allegedly attacked with hammer

One of Sydney’s busiest hospitals was put on high alert after the man was allegedly assaulted with a hammer.

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Police have boosted a reward for information into the 2003 murder of Harmony Bryant. (AAP PHOTOS)

Million-dollar reward into woman's cold-case murder

Police hope a $1 million award for information will help shed light on the murder of a woman who was found with burns and severe injuries two decades ago.

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The Big Banana was vandalised over the Easter weekend.

Big Banana defiled as cops hunt hate speech vandals

Police are investigating whether the incident should be classified under the new hate speech laws introduced last year after the Bondi terror attack.

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Sydney socialite and mother-of-two Annabelle Price has died suddenly.
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No more jabs as NSW will offer a nasal spray flu vaccine to children for free.

More kids in line for free, needle-less flu vaccine

A gentle, needle-less way to protect kids from the flu will be rolled out to hundreds of thousands of children for free in a bid to boost community immunity.

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