Jordan Baker

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Jordan Baker |Sally Rawsthorne

By Jordan Baker and Sally Rawsthorne May 8, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The race to become the state’s next police commissioner is shaping up as a showdown involving two of the men who wanted it last time, and one of the most experienced officers in the force.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Jordan Baker

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. For most of her 3½ years as NSW Police Commissioner, Karen Webb hasn’t felt safe in the job. There was always a fear that haters, as she once put it in an ill-judged reference to Taylor Swift, were leaking against her, that powerful sections of the media wanted her gone, and that the criticism of her weak public performances dented her support among the troops.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Jordan Baker

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Serial pest local councillor Andrew Thaler has been suspended from his southern NSW council for three months and told to publicly apologise after bullying and abusive social media posts, which included calling a fellow councillor a “fat dumb blonde” and “nasty liar”.

1 week ago | watoday.com.au | Jordan Baker |Riley Walter

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1 week ago | smh.com.au | Jordan Baker |Riley Walter

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Warning: Graphic contentThe Elanora Hotel had been closed for almost three hours when 19-year-old Audrey Griffin walked past in the wee hours of Sunday, March 23. After struggling to get an Uber when Hotel Gosford shut at 2am, her only option was to walk towards home through the empty streets, past shuttered shops and gloomy parks.