Articles by Sam Thompson, AAP
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National
All White among players arrested for alleged yellow-card fix
Friday, 17 May 2024, 3:27PMAll White Clayton Lewis reportedly among three A-League players arrested by New South Wales Police. Australian media has...
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Sport
A-League players arrested for alleged yellow-card fix
Friday, 17 May 2024, 2:07PM- Three A-League players were arrested over an alleged betting scheme involving yellow cards. - The scheme reportedly involved...
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World
Slain Australian campers: Jury told childhood sweethearts had 14-year affair
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 3:41PMThe daughter of a woman allegedly murdered while camping with her childhood sweetheart has spoken about her mother’s 14-year...
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World
'Pile on': Scott Morrison defends Donald Trump's legal woes
Thursday, 16 May 2024, 1:43PMFormer prime minister Scott Morrison has met with Donald Trump, describing the embattled ex-US president’s legal issues as...
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World
'No justice' in Brisbane teen's home invasion murder sentence
Tuesday, 14 May 2024, 1:54PMThe husband of a woman murdered during a home invasion says justice has not been served after her teenage killer was jailed...
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World
Manslaughter charges dropped against wedding bus driver who killed 10 in crash
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 2:06PMDriver Brett Button has pleaded guilty over a bus crash in the NSW Hunter Valley that left 10 people dead and many more injured. The...
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World
Twist in Aussie mushroom killer's case amid big court decision
Tuesday, 7 May 2024, 1:17PMErin Patterson’s case has been fast-tracked to the Supreme Court after she pleaded not guilty to murdering three people,...
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Science
Scientists break down in tears over 'horrifying' Great Barrier Reef crisis
Sunday, 5 May 2024, 4:37PMScientists from three research stations on the Great Barrier Reef have shared sobering accounts of the damage inflicted by...
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World
Teen armed with knife shot dead by police in Australia
Sunday, 5 May 2024, 4:10PMAn allegedly radicalised teenager armed with a large kitchen knife has been shot dead by police in Western Australia. The...
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World
Aussie men commit hundreds of 'predatory' child abuse acts, some at a childcare centre
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 10:04PMWARNING: This story deals with sexual offending and may be distressing. A court has been told in shocking detail the acts...
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World
Million-dollar fish! Teen hooks huge prize in competition
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 8:55PMA 19-year-old man has snagged the catch of a lifetime, reeling in a tagged barramundi worth A$1 million in Australia’s richest...
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Crime
'Determined to get justice': Six months since Baby Ru's murder, no charges
Monday, 22 April 2024, 11:40AMThree adults known to Baby Ru are continuing to be considered persons of interest on the sixth-month anniversary of the Lower...
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National
Teen driver admits killing legal executive in crash
Friday, 19 April 2024, 11:30AMA 15-year-old has admitted the manslaughter of a woman killed in a crash in rural Canterbury. Sandra Loveday, 60, died...
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World
Australia PM responds to injured Bondi hero’s desperate plea
Thursday, 18 April 2024, 2:11PMAustralia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed the offer of a permanent visa will be made to an injured Pakistani...
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National
Farzana Yaqubi murder: Damning report says police’s stalking allegations matrix ‘not fit-for-purpose’
Thursday, 18 April 2024, 1:13PMThe independent police watchdog says the matrix police use to assess allegations of stalking is “not fit-for-purpose” after...
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World
Teen arrested over terrorist church stabbing on good behaviour bond at time of attack
Tuesday, 16 April 2024, 3:54PMPolice are treating a knife attack at a western Sydney church as a terrorist act. A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after...
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Sport
'Exciting times': Supercars' Taupō sellout no shock to Kiwi legend
Sunday, 14 April 2024, 4:31PMThe fact the inaugural Supercars round in Taupō has sold out on Saturday and Sunday is no shock to former driver Greg Murphy. “I’m...
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National
St John apologises 'unreservedly' after woman dies waiting for ambulance
Friday, 12 April 2024, 5:06PMHato Hone St John says it “unreservedly” apologises to the family of an elderly woman who died following a 70-minute wait for...
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National
Family's anger: Elderly woman died after 70-minute wait for ambulance
Friday, 12 April 2024, 10:53AMAn elderly woman died following a 70-minute wait for an ambulance after her double-amputee husband called for help. A coroner...
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World
Aussie brutally murdered by flatmate, left in bin was 'blind to killer's evil'
Monday, 8 April 2024, 1:38PMA frail man brutally murdered by his housemate took him in because of the compassion that blinded him to his killer’s evil,...
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National
Pilot injured after Canterbury microlight plane crash, emergency services rush to scene
Sunday, 7 April 2024, 4:16PMOne person has suffered moderate injuries after crash-landing a microlight aircraft near Peel Forest, Canterbury. Emergency...
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Sport
Souths star facing ban for 'stupid' act against Shaun Johnson
Sunday, 7 April 2024, 3:24PMThe South Sydney Rabbitohs’ nightmare NRL season has taken another hit with Latrell Mitchell facing a ban of up to four games...
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World
Coral bleaching hits 75 percent of Great Barrier Reef
Sunday, 7 April 2024, 2:35PMCoral bleaching driven by climate change has hit three-quarters of the Great Barrier Reef as the Australian federal government...
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World
One dead as NSW residents mop up after record-breaking downpours
Sunday, 7 April 2024, 2:07PMA man has died and more than 160 people have required rescuing as a deluge across eastern NSW caused landslips, flash flooding...