Tim Fernandez
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Biographer claims police were aware of Frank Arkell's links to child sex ring a decade before arrest
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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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Jan 14, 2025 |
abc.net.au | Tim Fernandez |Kelly Fuller
Dozens of academics are fighting to keep their jobs as the University of Wollongong enters the next phase of a dramatic restructure designed to claw back lost revenue from declining international student enrolments. The university was one of the first in the country to announce widespread job losses due to the federal government's tightening of international student visas.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
abc.net.au | Tim Fernandez |Romy Gilbert
The prime minister has taken aim at the track record of the former New South Wales transport minister Andrew Constance, as battle lines are drawn in the contest for Australia's most marginal federal seat. The electorate of Gilmore on the NSW south coast was retained by incumbent Labor MP Fiona Phillips in 2022, who won just 373 more votes than the former NSW transport minister.
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Dec 19, 2024 |
abc.net.au | Tim Fernandez |Kelly Fuller
Laying claim to the technology that could crack green steelmaking in Australia was a tantalising prospect for any state government. Earlier this year Australia's largest steelmaker, BlueScope Steel, announced a new partnership with iron ore heavyweights Rio Tinto and BHP. They planned to build a furnace capable of turning Pilbara ore into green iron — the feed stock for zero emissions steel. New Wales South, South Australia, and Western Australia made pitches for the project.
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Dec 16, 2024 |
abc.net.au | Tim Fernandez
The owner of a NSW fun park has been ordered to dismantle dozens of rides after a court found some were "materially unsafe" and were built without council approval. After retiring from his real estate career, John Grant began working on his passion project in Foxground on the NSW south coast. He invested more than $10 million into the whimsical fun park known as Granties Maze — an eclectic collection of more than 80 rides and attractions centred around the eponymous maze.
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