Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia,Aftab Malik.

Radicaliser? Undercover agent? Aftab Malik is used to dodging accusations

Australia’s new special envoy to combat Islamophobia didn’t want the job but is now working to make it more than tokenistic.

  • Patrick Begley

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A fatal house fire broke out on Grant Street.

Man dies in house fire in Sydney’s west

Firefighters arrived at the house in Blacktown to find it well alight and a man inside suffering burns.

  • Patrick Begley
Peter Dutton is receiving assistance from Melbourne commercial law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler.

Dutton’s mysterious free legal advice from prominent Melbourne firm

The opposition leader is receiving “ongoing legal assistance” from a firm that opposed him on the Voice to parliament.

  • Patrick Begley
NSW Police found two bodies in a shipping container in Gulgong.

NSW cop sacked over topless waitress party,domestic violence case failures

Former senior constable Andrew Herring told the Industrial Relations Commission he was a person of integrity but “not particularly well suited to DV investigations”.

  • Patrick Begley
Joanna and Ian Turner

Joanna alerted the army about her husband. The ADF ‘vilified’ her. He later took his own life

The Australian Defence Force failed the veteran and treated his widow “appallingly”,a coroner has found.

  • Ben Cubby andPatrick Begley
Little Etoile formula giveaway.

Taller,stronger,smarter:The baseless claims used to sell ‘toddler milk’ powder

Australian parents are told not to buy the ultra-processed powdered milk products,but the government is helping fund a boom overseas.

  • Patrick Begley
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George Alex outside court.

‘No remorse’:George Alex jailed over $10 million tax fraud

The construction boss has been sentenced for his role as the overseer of a tax fraud scheme that delivered him the “lion’s share” of criminal proceeds.

  • Patrick Begley
Matthew Palavidis,Merivale VIP

Merivale VIP customer accused of sexually touching a waitress

The man has been charged after allegedly attempting to undo a waitress’s top as she served him caviar at a renowned Merivale seaside restaurant.

  • Eryk Bagshaw,Patrick Begley andBianca Hrovat
Matthew Norman in Kerobokan prison in 2018. He is still jailed there.

Bali Nine prisoner cries ‘tears of joy’ as Indonesian critics attack transfer deal talks

Sensitive discussions are under way to transfer five men,serving life sentences for their roles in a 2005 heroin smuggling ring,from Indonesia to Australia.

  • Wendy Tuohy,Amilia Rosa,Karuni Rompies andPatrick Begley
NSW Police at the scene of a suspicious death on Wilton Park Road,Wilton.

Man arrested after discovery of 15-year-old’s body in bushland

The man presented himself at a police station about nine hours after officers found the boy’s body near a road in Sydney’s south-west.

  • Patrick Begley andNigel Gladstone