Daniel Billings was charged with stalking,rape and animal cruelty. Police said he’d threatened his former partner. There was no magistrate,so a registrar gave him bail.
Just weeks before Ticehurst was found dead in a NSW home,the man accused of her alleged murder was released on bail over a series of allegations of sexual assault against her.
The woman’s white Hyundai i30 hatchback caught fire after it crashed into the back of a Transperth bus on the 344 school bus route about 8am.
Language can help us see things as if for the first time. When it fails,though,the problem does not really lie with language but with us.
It took only a few seconds for the Taipan to pitch up then plunge into the sea,killing all four on board. The quest for the truth has taken months.
NSW Police Inspector Amy Scott,Prime Minister Anthony Albanese,political leaders and thousands of locals paid their respects to those lost in the Bondi Junction knife attack.
We have increasing difficulty in integrating disparate views,and having civil disagreements. The only antidotes are slowness,nuance,and a tolerance for complexity – all things that are increasingly rare.
A week on from the massacre,messages of sorrow and floral tributes pour in for those killed and injured at Westfield Bondi Junction.
An uneasy calm has now settled on the city after a horror week,but questions remain about why one attacker was labelled a terrorist,and the other wasn’t.
For this special report,The Age spent seven months speaking to 11 of the school children,a dozen parents of those on the bus,and the tradies that helped with the rescue.
Three brothers,the youngest of whom was just nine years old,and their family friend have been identified as the four people killed in a horror crash south-west of Northam overnight.