The teenage boy told a Sydney court he was considering carrying out a mass terror attack in the CBD after being radicalised on TikTok and other social media platforms.
The devastated parents of a child abused by disgraced childcare worker David James are calling for urgent reform to the out-of-school-hours care system to better protect children.
The NSW Police watchdog has found the response on the night Lindy Lucena was beaten to death by her abusive partner was "inadequate" but did not amount to serious misconduct.
The 47-year-old's matter was in court charged with what police describe as the "particularly violent" murder of his wife and sons in Sydney's south-west.
When Lindy Lucena was killed by her abusive partner in Ballina, it took police almost an hour to respond, and when an officer went to the scene he did not get out of his car to investigate.
Two female officers were allegedly assaulted following reports of a mental health incident in Bidwill on Friday evening. A third male officer was allegedly bitten on the arm.
An Indigenous family has taken NSW Police to the Human Rights Commission arguing officers racially discriminated against two young Aboriginal boys by targeting them with excessive bail checks.