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Michael McGowan

Michael McGowan

Michael McGowan is an investigative reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.

From left to right, Adrian John Carr, Chris Carrig, Jamie McGowan and Nicholas Williamson were all National Socialist Network neo-Nazi group with criminal histories.

Australian neo-Nazi group included women bashers, stalkers, drug dealers and accused paedophile

The core membership of the National Socialist Network which held an anti-Jewish rally outside NSW parliament last year was a beacon for criminals.

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The Holsworthy Army Barracks, where accused paedophile and far-right extremist Jonathan Salter lived.

ADF member who trained with neo-Nazis allegedly caught with child abuse and extremist material

Jonathan Salter, 25, a former Australian Defence Force member, is facing more than a dozen charges.

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Ronster, pictured in his black helmet and red goggles, said the rideout was unintentional and happened organically.

Police given power to ‘seize and crush’ illegal e-bikes in government crackdown

NSW Transport Minister John Graham announced on Sunday that the government would also roll out technology allowing officers to test whether e-bikes exceed power limits. If they fail, police will be able to seize and destroy the vehicles.

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From left: Sophie Quinn, 24; Nerida Quinn, 50; and friend John Harris, 32.

Sophie Quinn’s death ‘shows justice system is running blind’

There are calls for further bail reforms following the death of the heavily pregnant woman and two others, but the sector’s peak body says this won’t be a “quick fix”.

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The State Operations Centre at NSW RFS Headquarters at Olympic Park on Friday.

Revealed: Why NSW faces extreme bushfire danger with fewer firefighters

The state’s Rural Fire Service is significantly smaller than the 70,000-strong force it has on paper, private documents show.

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Brother Ismail, Wissam Haddad and Brother Mohammed Trad.

Jewish groups warned police about ‘hate preachers’ multiple times before Bondi massacre

It can also be revealed that envoy to combat antisemitism Jillian Segal warned that changes to racial incitement laws were “utterly unworkable”.

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Terrorism experts say the relationship between the father and son may have fed their spiral into darkness.

A father, a son and the radical world of terror

The final days of the Bondi Beach shooters were spent in bare, rented rooms and off the radar of authorities.

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Wisam Haddad, also known as Abu Ousayd, whose ABC Four Corners program has identified as a spiritual leader of Australia’s pro-Islamic State network, at the March for Humanity in August. He was accompanied by about a dozen younger men.

‘He’s a honeypot’: The radical Islamic cleric linked to the Bondi shooter who keeps dodging the law

Bondi gunman Naveed Akram is the latest Islamic State sympathiser linked to western Sydney cleric Wissam Haddad, who himself has never faced serious criminal sanction. Why?

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Naveed Akram with Street Dawah in July 2019, the same month his associate Isaac El Matari was charged with terrorism.

Islamic group linked to Bondi shooter brands him ‘a thug and a terrorist’

Muslim street preachers have denounced Naveed Akram, who allegedly carried out Australia’s worst terror attack on Sunday, having taken him in as an awkward teenager years ago.

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Naveed Akram with Street Dawah in June 2019.

Police feared Bondi gunman’s Islamic State associates were seeking weapons

Court documents reveal authorities feared IS members, linked to the surviving Bondi Beach shooter Naveed Akram, were trying to procure weapons as far back as 2018.

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