Heath Gilmore

Sep 13, 2024 | smh.com.au | Heath Gilmore

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Lismore is an implausible character after the 2022 floods, a bipolar vortex of contradictions, a mess of extreme highs and crushing lows, attractions and repulsions that no one could have imagined. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being poured into a reconstruction-driven facelift of the grand dame of the Northern Rivers of NSW and the surrounding towns.

Sep 13, 2024 | smh.com.au | Heath Gilmore

By Heath Gilmore September 14, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A 3000-square metre joinery factory is set to become the unexpected launch pad for an arts-led revival of flood-ravaged Lismore. After the 2022 disaster, artists and performers, like many Northern Rivers residents, have been struggling to put a roof over their heads let alone find a roof to put their works and shows under.

Jul 16, 2024 | smh.com.au | Heath Gilmore |Sally Rawsthorne

The Herald has built an interactive map, pinpointing alcohol-related domestic violence incidents across the state's local government areas over the past decade. The numbers do not refer to alcohol-related domestic violence convictions, but entries into the NSW Police database. The data shows the North Sydney Local Government Area recorded the highest proportion of domestic violence assaults involving alcohol in Sydney - a staggering 45 per cent over the 10-year period to March 2024.

Jul 16, 2024 | theage.com.au | Heath Gilmore |Sally Rawsthorne

By Heath Gilmore and Sally Rawsthorne July 17, 2024 — 11.45am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Drunk wealthy men are among the biggest dangers to women in Sydney. Of the 230,217 domestic assaults involving female victims in NSW over the past decade, one in three of those involved alcohol.

Jun 16, 2024 | smh.com.au | Sally Rawsthorne |Heath Gilmore |Nigel Gladstone

Kirralee Paepaerei was making a bid for a new life. Pregnant with her fifth child, she was thrilled to be having a girl after four boys. Then her life was taken. Josh Homann fatally stabbed her 49 time s at the townhouse they shared with her children and sister Kylee. Her unborn baby Mia - the only child of the ill-fated couple - was also killed. Paepaerei is one of the hundreds of murder victims whose death was captured by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research's data.