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Sherryn Groch

Sherryn Groch

Sherryn Groch is a journalist at The Age covering crime. Email her at s.groch@nine.com.au or contact her securely on Signal @SherrynG.70

Damage from a suspicious fire at a former church, the site of a proposed mosque, in Kilmore on Tuesday.

Muslim leader to meet police chief over Islamophobia investigations

A rise in violent threats and two suspicious blazes in two days have Victoria’s Muslim community on edge but police say the fires are not hate-related.

  • Sherryn Groch

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US-Iran war as it happened: Trump says Australia should join war; Iran threatens to target tourist sites worldwide; Fresh strikes in Tehran and Gulf states

Follow our rolling coverage of the Middle East conflict as the price of oil surges and fears of fuel shortages grow.

  • Angus Dalton, Sherryn Groch and Ellen Connolly
Colin Robertson, a self-described amateur detective who has been investigating the crash for almost four years.

‘Bike boy’ campaign accused of giving cash gifts to potential witnesses in case against Daniel Andrews

Court documents say those driving the “bike boy scandal” spent tens of thousands of fundraising money on “gifts” to potential witnesses in lawsuits they lodged on behalf of the young cyclist injured in a 2013 crash.

  • Sherryn Groch
Tigers’ Russian coal mining operations border the tiny Indigenous community of Beringovsky in Siberia.

Police dig into the case of the Australian miner and the Kremlin ‘slush fund’

A little-known Melbourne company bankrolled by rich-listers is at the centre of Australia’s first criminal investigation into Russian sanction breaches.

  • Sherryn Groch
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin examines an uncut chunk of diamond during a visit to Russia’s biggest diamond mine, Mirny, in Siberia in 2009.

Australia’s diamond back door: Blood jewels slipping past borders to fund Russia’s war

As pressure builds on Australia to close sanction loopholes, another industry could be helping prop up the Kremlin’s war machine - diamonds.

  • Sherryn Groch
Protesters gathered in their thousands at Flinders Street Station on Thursday night.

Herzog Melbourne protest as it happened: Israeli president faces protests in final leg of controversial trip

The Israeli president is visiting Melbourne briefly before returning to Israel after a controversial trip to Australia to meet with victims of the Bondi terror attack and politicians.

  • Cassandra Morgan, Sherryn Groch, Angus Delaney, Adam Carey, Jackson Graham and Chip Le Grand
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Alleged paedophile Joshua Brown.

Shocking new charges in case of accused childcare paedophile Joshua Brown

Joshua Brown’s lawyer had been fighting in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court this week to stop the release of the full 156 charges now facing the accused paedophile.

  • Sherryn Groch, Erin Pearson and Carla Jaeger
Hugo Lennon has taken credit for the offensive Bondi shooter posters in Melbourne.

Posters of the Bondi shooter appeared around Melbourne. The culprit has now been unmasked

A wealthy neo-Nazi associate has unmasked himself as behind the offensive posters depicting the Bondi shooter which appeared overnight around Melbourne recently.

  • Sherryn Groch and Cara Waters

Undercover neo-Nazis infiltrate March for Australia as police block opposing protests

One Nation joined known associates of neo-Nazis on the steps of Parliament House, at times railing against immigration from a podium built by a neo-Nazi.

  • Sherryn Groch, Marta Pascual Juanola, Michael Bachelard and Lachlan Abbott
People participate in a smoking ceremony at a dawn service in Melbourne this morning.

Australia Day 2026 LIVE: Police line on Spring Street keeps Invasion Day crowd from March for Australia rally

Invasion Day activists and anti-immigration protesters will converge on Melbourne CBD as part of Australia Day demonstrations. Follow updates live.

  • Lachlan Abbott, Isabel McMillan, Sherryn Groch, Michael Bachelard, Eliza Sum, Marta Pascual Juanola and Caroline Schelle