Liam Mendes
@liammendes
Journalist covering a broad range of topics at the @australian newspaper | Confidential tips: [email protected] or Signal/Whatsapp +61423456893
Full video report from @yonibashan and myself in Tel Aviv earlier this month, when Iran fired almost 200 missiles - many ballistic - towards Israel. We were initially heading towards a mass shooting incident where nine people were killed by two Hamas terrorists when the missiles…
Latham's vulgar slurs against Julie Bishop Embattled NSW MP Mark Latham sent messages to his former partner mocking the hairstyle of former foreign minister Julie Bishop, and making a vulgar remark about her genitals. The exchange between Mr Latham and Nathalie Matthews follows…

Mark Latham’s ex-partner says she sought domestic violence order to stop intimate films being leaked The ex-partner of former Labor leader Mark Latham says part of the reason she applied for a domestic violence order against him was for fear intimate videos she filmed would be…

Former Labor leader Mark Latham told his ex-partner that billionaire Richard White owed her “big money” and urged her to “get the compo NDA (non-disclosure agreement)” after the Wisetech Global founder was accused by multiple women of exchanging business advice for sex. The…

Exc: Former federal Labor leader and controversial One Nation figure Mark Latham is at the centre of allegations from a former partner that he forced her into degrading sexual acts, demanded she call him “master” and threw dinner plates at her, in an explosive application for a…

The Australian’s Yoni Bashan and Liam Mendes captured the moment an Iranian ballistic missile slipped through Israel’s air defences during a major escalation in the Israel and Iran war. Latest coverage: bit.ly/4kXibU8
The Australian's @yoni_bashan and @liammendes report from Tel Aviv as Iran missile strikes surge across the city. Watch the full video here: l.taus.au/by9
Deep beneath a medical centre in Israel’s north, babies are being born in a carpark converted into an extraordinary world-class hospital that is running like clockwork as bombs and rockets rain down above. Watch the full video: bit.ly/4kXibU8
NT Supreme Court judge bails alleged child rapist Brandon King to same town as victim A Northern Territory Supreme Court judge kept details of how she bailed a man - who allegedly raped a child - into a small town secret two days after the Territory government passed the…

‘Enough’s enough’: Indigenous family vent fury at police role in young man’s death Northern Territory police have rejected calls from the family of an Indigenous man who died in Alice Springs while being arrested earlier this week for an independent investigation into his death.…

Reformed underworld figure or wife beater? Acai Underworld founder Bill Trad exposed Famed acai dessert mogul Billy ‘Acai Bill’ Trad from Acai Underworld has been unmasked as a domestic violence offender and fake gangster Full story and video: l.taus.au/RKT
Morning update: The man is understood to have been under Northern Territory guardianship and believed to have "a significant mental health background and development issues". On Monday evening, specialist police flew to Alice Springs from Darwin following the incident. Senior…
We tracked down Bridgett Maddox, the former Slater + Gordon payroll manager identified in court documents as a suspect behind the malicious email hoax against the law firm. See what the convicted fraudster had to say: l.taus.au/LHY @EllieDudley_ @riceyontheroad
Breaking: A man is fighting for life after being repeatedly stabbed in the town centre of Alice Springs in a daylight attack in front of shocked onlookers, including a family out for an early dinner with their 12-month-old child. A man “armed with two steak knives” is on the run…
The alleged stabbing murder of an elderly Darwin supermarket owner this week was a tragic incident that has shaken Territorians. But the government was warned it was coming: bit.ly/3GpyTwd
BREAKING: The 18-year-old arrested for allegedly stabbing to death Linford Feick, 71, in Darwin on Wednesday night was on bail for a long list of violent offences including aggravated assault and rape. Full story: l.taus.au/3F7

Breaking overnight: Police have arrested a Darwin teenager who allegedly stabbed to death an elderly supermarket owner on Wednesday night after being caught stealing items from the family-run store. The 18-year-old was allegedly confronted by Canadian-born Linford Feich, 71, in…

Northern Territory police chased and hit by stolen vehicle in remote community of Palumpa 🚔 🚨 Anywhere else in the world, the police would be in hot pursuit of thieves in a stolen car – but in the upside down world of the Northern Territory, it’s the cops on the run from the…
Alice Springs woman freed for violent beating because of ‘disgusting and inhumane’ prison conditions An Alice Springs woman convicted of a savage assault, in which a 16-year-old girl was beaten with a rock and stripped naked in a park, successfully leveraged the “inhumane”…