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New South Wales police say one person has been arrested following the incident in DoonsideFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA teenage boy has died and another is in a serious condition after multiple stabbings near a school in western Sydney.Emergency services responded to reports of the stabbings near a...

Former aide to Craig Kelly found guilty of sex crimes against four victims aged between 19 and 24 at time of offendingGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAn aide to the former federal MP Craig Kelly used his position to lure powerless young women who he would go on to sexually touch and assault over a period of...

Keli Lane, convicted of murdering newborn daughter in 1996, refused parole because she has not helped police find Tegan’s bodyFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA woman convicted of killing her baby daughter in one of Australia’s most notorious criminal cases has been denied parole after more than 13 years...

Under Operation Regional Mongoose, 153 people – including 109 children – have been charged since September, the youngest 11 years oldGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNew South Wales police have said they intend to keep locking up young offenders and “holding them to account” as part of their youth crime crackdown.But the Aboriginal Legal Service has called...

NSW police commissioner Karen Webb expresses ‘heartfelt condolences’ to the families and friends of alleged murder victims Jesse Baird and Luke DaviesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNew South Wales police are investigating whether murder-accused senior constable Beau Lamarre-Condon was lawfully in possession of the police-issue handgun which they believe was fired at a Paddington unit where two...

Police said the guard was allegedly punched by a patron who had been asked to leave the venueFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA security guard has died after he was allegedly punched in the head during an altercation at a hotel in Sydney’s south, and a man charged with...

Bodies of woman, 41, and boy, 7, discovered in Lion’s Taekwondo Martial Arts Academy in North Parramatta after 39-year-old man found dead in Baulkham Hills homeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA young student and his mother walked into a taekwondo studio in Sydney with no warning they’d soon be...

Police said the man, found inside the chute of a bin near Westfield Tuggerah, had died at the sceneFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe largest homelessness charity on the Central Coast has said how saddened it is by the “loss of a member of our community”, after a man’s...

Maths teacher claims student made ‘constant calls’ to family home and says they tried to ‘put a stop to it’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA former elite Sydney high school teacher accused of unlawful sexual activity with a student didn’t start a relationship with her until the girl actively pursued the teacher after she left the school,...

Court told teacher formed close relationship with student’s mother and took student out for dinnerGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA mathematics teacher at an elite Sydney high school started grooming a teenage girl almost immediately after meeting the student, a jury has heard.The teacher, who cannot be legally identified, is on trial in the Downing Centre district...