Sally Rawsthorne

5 days ago | smh.com.au | Ben Cubby |Sally Rawsthorne

By Ben Cubby and Sally Rawsthorne May 10, 2025 — 8.08am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A grandmother has been charged with murdering two of her grandchildren, aged 7 and 6, who were found dead in a home at Coonabarabran in the state’s west on Monday. Police were called the semi-rural property just after 2pm and discovered the boy’s bodies in separate bedrooms.

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 | Sally Rawsthorne

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. After a hard few years, a grandmother made a decision. She would take her two grandsons, aged six and seven, and move almost 400 kilometres away to the tiny town of Coonabarabran. Things had not been going well for the 66-year-old or her family. The younger of the two boys had been born with additional needs and lived with childhood cancer for most of his short life.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Sally Rawsthorne |Riley Walter

By Sally Rawsthorne and Riley Walter May 6, 2025 — 11.15am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Two children found dead at a Coonabarabran home on Monday were living with their grandmother after the state removed the boys from their parents’ care several years ago. The boys, aged 6 and 7, were found dead at the property in north-western New South Wales on Monday afternoon.

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Sally Rawsthorne

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sandwiched between a Bunnings and a university campus on a busy western Sydney street, hundreds of people have spent years developing technology to thwart maritime threats as diverse as foreign interference, drug cartels and people smugglers.