Nick McLaren
Senior News Reporter and Deputy Chief of Staff at ABC Illawarra
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Nick McLaren
Tracey David has a simple message for the politicians and bureaucrats who have so far refused to approve funding for her prosthetic nose. "We are not cosmetic, we are not looking to enhance our face. We are looking to live with dignity," she said. The New South Wales south coast grandmother received life-saving surgery to remove a malignant tumour from her face last year but was disappointed to learn there was no federal funding to help her cover the cost of a prosthetic.
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Nick McLaren
A man and teenager have been charged, and another man is awaiting extradition from Queensland, over an alleged gun manufacturing operation. Police discovered multiple homemade machine guns, a 3D printer and gun parts at a home in Gerroa, on the NSW South Coast. The 45-year-old man and 16-year-old boy are due to face court today. A man and a teenager are due to appear in court charged in connection with the alleged supply of homemade guns in south-east New South Wales.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Nick McLaren |Melinda James
The University of Wollongong (UOW) has announced up to 10 per cent of non-academic staff are set to lose their jobs in the latest round of redundancies. The university has announced plans to cut up to another 180 jobs as part of a major restructure, bringing total job losses this year to around 276.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Nick McLaren
The operator of Metropolitan Mine, Peabody Energy, has been ordered to pay more than $500,000 for a series of pollution events in 2022. The Land and Environment Court found Metropolitan Mine on two occasions failed to prevent water contaminated with coal waste from flowing into a tributary of the Hacking River running through the Royal National Park, south of Sydney.
Biographer claims police were aware of Frank Arkell's links to child sex ring a decade before arrest
1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Nick McLaren |Tim Fernandez
The deaths of two former Wollongong lord mayors accused of child sexual abuse more than 20 years ago have prevented the seaside city from closing one of its darkest chapters. But a new book has shed further light on the lives of Frank Arkell and Tony Bevan, revealing police may have known about their alleged crimes more than a decade before they first came to light.
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