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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Nick McLaren |Tim Fernandez
A political staffer has told a trial he was "overcompensating" when he referred to former NSW minister Gareth Ward as "love", more than a year after he was allegedly sexually assaulted by Mr Ward. The member for the NSW South Coast seat of Kiama Gareth Ward is standing trial accused of sexually abusing two men, aged 18 and 24, during two separate incidents in 2015 and 2013.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
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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Dec 2, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Tim Fernandez
A mother of three has avoided jail time after she hit a teenager with a baseball bat during a suburban brawl in which her sister was killed. Carly McBride pleaded guilty to affray earlier this year over the brawl down the road from her Warrawong home. The court heard a group of teenage girls, some armed with knives, travelled to McBride's Warrawong home after using social media to arrange a fight with another group of girls, including her daughter.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Tim Fernandez
Teenagers have been treated in hospital after a balcony at a holiday rental collapsed during a party on the NSW South Coast. Emergency services called to the home found several injured young people. Three females and a male were treated by paramedics for minor back and leg injuries and were then taken to hospital. Police say most of the attendees were teenagers. Videos of the party obtained by the ABC show a group dancing on a balcony one of the guests, Jackson Gaines, described as "pretty old".
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Tim Fernandez
The discovery of a toxic algae in a major river on the New South Wales South Coast has sparked concerns about the impact on nearby oyster farms in the lead-up to the busy Christmas period. WaterNSW has issued a red alert for the Shoalhaven River after discovering potentially toxic levels of the micro algae, Alexandrium minutum. The algae produce paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins which, if consumed by humans, can lead to serious illnesses and in some cases death.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Tim Fernandez
Police have released new CCTV footage of the ute they believe was involved in a hit-and-run that left a pedestrian in the middle of the road with critical injuries. Antonio Spano was returning home from a driving lesson with his son just before 9pm on October 16 when he walked across the Daisy Street pedestrian crossing at the Princes Highway in Fairy Meadow. He was struck by a vehicle, which drove off leaving him with serious chest and head injuries.
