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AFR Bondi Junction attack victims: Ashlee Good, Jade Young, Dawn Singleton, Faraz Tahir and Pikria Darchia.

Police to probe if Bondi killer targeted women

Police are investigating if Joel Cauchi was targeting women when he murdered six people during a nightmarish stabbing spree in Sydney.

  • Updated
  • Gus McCubbing

How strangers frantically tried to save each other in Bondi

Onlookers recount the nightmarish scenes at a Sydney shopping centre as a man killed six people including Ashlee Good, Jade Young, Dawn Singleton and Faraz Tahir.

  • Gus McCubbing and David Marin-Guzman
Sydneysiders could rely on NSW Police and Ambulance NSW launching a massive response.

Bondi Junction tragedy brings out the best

The carnage at Bondi Junction Plaza may have lessons for mental health management. But it was also a violent exception that proves the rule of a harmonious society.

  • The AFR View

March

Bruce Lehrmann leaves court.

The Bruce Lehrmann saga is a radioactive snowball

The sordid scandal around the former staffer keeps claiming victims and ruining reputations.

  • Updated
  • Mark Di Stefano

February

Displaced Palestinians at a camp operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in western Khan Younis, Gaza.

Israel accuses Wong of forgetting Hamas in row over aid funds

Penny Wong is under pressure on whether to lift a freeze on $6 million in funds for a controversial Palestinian refugee agency.

  • Updated
  • Andrew Tillett
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January

Ken Grace ran Goldsky, a Kingscliff-based hedge fund.

Kingscliff hedge fund impostor found dead in Sydney hotel

Ken Grace, the man who created an award-winning hedge fund that raised money from sports stars and locals from Kingscliff, has been found dead.

  • Jonathan Shapiro and Liam Walsh

November 2023

Protesters in kayaks and canoes blockaded Newcastle port on Sunday.

Anti-coal kayakers cut shipping with port blockade

Climate protestors shut down Australia’s largest coal port for 30 hours over the weekend, potentially costing hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue.

  • Mark Ludlow
The banking system is being used to perpetrate financial abuse via threatening messages attached to tiny payments.

How CBA is using AI to shield female customers from financial abuse

The bank is sharing its new software that can help identify the more than 400,000 abusive messages that are attached to tiny payments each year.

  • James Eyers

October 2023

The crowd at a pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney’s Hyde Park on Sunday.

Thousands rally in Sydney, Melbourne to support Palestinians

An attempted genocide was happening in Gaza, speakers at rallies in Sydney and Melbourne were told on Sunday. The protests were held under heavy police security and ended with no trouble reported.

  • Maxim Shanahan
Xpress’s Ampol service station at Denham Court.

Xpress servos up for sale to recoup NAB losses

Receivers of the fuel business that is allegedly behind a $43 million fraud scheme targeting NAB have put the company’s petrol stations up for sale.

  • Campbell Kwan

August 2023

The ATO will set its sights on the Pandora Papers.

Unpaid GST surge has helped blow a $50b hole in revenue

A near three-fold explosion in GST debt in the past six years is fuelling a surge in unpaid taxes.

  • Neil Chenoweth and Max Mason

July 2023

Rosemary Rogers and Helen Rosamond.

The ‘besties’ who fleeced NAB and how it all unravelled

A trusted insider with the ability to approve millions in spending – no questions asked – and her “bestie”, fleeced NAB of $70 million. Now they’re both behind bars.

  • Updated
  • Max Mason

June 2023

Fraud suspect selling $250m in real estate

The sell down of Sydney development sites by developer Jean Nassif has created prime opportunities for logistics giant Goodman and build-to-rent player Greystar.

  • Nick Lenaghan
Brett Button leaves Cessnock Police Station on Tuesday afternoon.

Fatal bus crash driver silent as he walks on bail

Mental health concerns played on the magistrate’s mind as she granted bail to the man allegedly responsible for the nation’s worst road disaster in decades.

  • Luke Costin, Phoebe Loomes and Callum Godde

May 2023

A major fire has broken out at a building in the inner Sydney suburb of Surry Hills.

Tight exclusion zone remains after massive Sydney blaze

A badly damaged section of the inner Sydney building mostly destroyed by fire moved 70mm overnight as police and specialist firefighters warn it could collapse at any moment.

  • Kathryn Magann
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Sydney CBD building engulfed ‘in gush of fire’

A Surry Hills building has been gutted by a large fire, casting a huge pall of dark smoke across the city as onlookers watched parts of the building collapse.

  • Campbell Kwan and Lucy Dean

January 2023

New Star Entertainment CEO Robbie Cooke.

Star’s devastating tax hit smacks of populism

The NSW government levy that has wiped a stunning 30 per off the company’s valuation is an example of the sort of populist interventions investors should fear. 

  • James Thomson

November 2022

Helen Rosamond arriving at court on Thursday.

Helen Rosamond found largely guilty of remaining NAB fraud charges

Helen Rosamond has been found guilty of nearly all the remaining charges related to a four-year fraud scheme operated with the former National Australia Bank chief of staff to two chief executives.

  • Max Mason

September 2022

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet unveils a new ambitious drug policy aimed at quashing the use of ice across the state

NSW pins hopes on ‘two strikes’ policy against drugs

The state government ruled out accepting a recommendation to decriminalise the drug ice.

  • Samantha Hutchinson

July 2022

New William Buck director Garth O’Connor-Price.

William Buck appoints new directors

The accounting firm has appointed 28 new directors over the past year, bringing the size of the leadership group to 118.

  • Edmund Tadros