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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Jury retires to consider fate of NSW police officer who tasered 95yo Clare Nowland

ABC

The jury has retired to consider its verdict in the manslaughter trial of a NSW police officer who tasered a 95-year-old woman in an aged care facility. Clare Nowland died in hospital a week after a police officer tasered her in a Cooma aged care facility. The defence has argued that Senior Constable White's actions were not disproportionate to the …

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NSW Police officer's four words before tasering grandmother Clare Nowland with dementia

Daily Mail

A police officer told an elderly woman with dementia symptoms they were 'not playing this game' before he tasered her in dramatic footage played to his criminal trial. Senior Constable Kristian James Samuel White shot his stun gun at great-grandmother Clare Nowland at the Yallambee Lodge aged-care home in the southern NSW town of Cooma in the early hours of …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Kiki Sjoberg drove into the mountains to snap Australia's wild brumbies - and then vanished off the face of the earth

Daily Mail

The search for an award-winning photographer and brumby conservationist has been ramped up after she vanished in the NSW Snowy Mountains 10 days ago. Lovisa 'Kiki' Sjoberg's last contact with another person was on October 8, but she was seen a week later driving her grey Mitsubishi Outlander rental car. Lovisa 'Kiki' Sjoberg, 48, did not return her rental car …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

Snowy 2.0 brings new wave of cultures to Cooma, centre helps migrant women thrive

ABC

Every Tuesday morning at 10am, the world descends on a small classroom in a regional NSW town as part of a transformation that has been happening for several decades. Seventy years after Cooma became "the home of multiculturalism in Australia", the Maraviglias are among an influx of hundreds of migrant worker families again transforming the town. Along Cooma's main street …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Senior Constable Kristian White ordered to surrender passport accused of manslaughter of Clare Nowland in Cooma

ABC

A NSW Police senior constable has been deemed a flight risk and ordered not to leave the country as he appeared in court for the first time since charges against him were upgraded to manslaughter over the death of 95-year-old Clare Nowland. Key points: Senior Constable Kristian White appeared before Cooma Local Court charged with manslaughter 95-year-old great-grandmother Clare Nowland …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Cooma Correctional Centre inmates caring for dogs and helping them find new homes

ABC

In a place that is notorious for monotony, having a responsibility can help bring a sense of purpose — especially if it returns affection. Key points: A program at the Cooma Correctional Centre allows prisoners to look after dogs without homes Prison authorities say they have seen changes in the inmates since the introduction of the program A RMIT researcher …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Backlog for driver's licence tests in Queanbeyan seeing some travel hours to secure bookings

ABC

For Queanbeyan teenager Emma, getting her provisional driver's licence was memorable for all the wrong reasons. "Jasmine was able to easily book her hazard perception test, but when she went to book the driving test, the next available date in Queanbeyan was September 3," Robyn said. Backlog blamed on staffing woes Robyn's daughter Jasmine has her learner driver's licence but …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Tasered grandmother: Former magistrate calls out Commissioner Karen Webb's response to Clare Nowland

Daily Mail

A former magistrate has hit out at the NSW Police Commissioner for refusing to release or even watch bodycam video of a 95-year-old great grandmother being Tasered by a policeman. Despite international outrage over the incident, police chief Karen Webb has refused to view bodycam footage of dementia sufferer Clare Nowland being Tasered at a Cooma aged care home. Clare …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Australian police use Taser on 95-year-old with dementia who held steak knife

Associated Press

CANBERRA, Australia — Police shocked a 95-year-old woman with a stun gun as she approached them using a walker and carrying a steak knife in an Australian nursing home, sending her to the hospital in critical condition after her head hit the floor. Police said Nowland received her injuries from striking her head on the floor, rather than directly from …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Investigation finds NSW Rural Fire Service failed to fully communicate dangers before Large Air Tanker crashed near Cooma in January 2020

ABC

An investigation has found the NSW Rural Fire Service failed to pass on crucial information to the crew of a Large Air Tanker before it crashed near Cooma during the Black Summer bushfires. Key points: Three US crew members were killed when their Large Air Tanker crashed while fighting a bushfire near Adaminaby on January 23, 2020 An Australian Transport …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Rex, Qantas come to verbal blows over Broken Hill route

ABC

The deputy chairman of Rex Airlines has hit back at Qantas after the national carrier announced it was starting flights into Broken Hill. Key points: Rex says Qantas' expansion is "retaliation" for its move into metro markets QantasLink's CEO said he was not worried about competition from Rex There are questions over whether two airlines operating out of Broken Hill …

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3 years, 4 months ago

List of COVID sewage detections in South East NSW grows, now includes Jindabyne

ABC

The list of COVID-19 fragments detected in South East NSW sewage continues to grow, with Jindabyne now reporting its first. Key points: COVID-19 has been detected for the first time in sewage at Jindabyne in the NSW Snowy Mountains Fragments of the virus have also recently been found in Thredbo and Cooma There have been nine detections of COVID-19 Delta …

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3 years, 4 months ago

COVID-19 fragments detected in Bega sewage, third detection in Cooma

ABC

NSW Health has advised that fragments of the COVID-19 virus have been detected in Bega and Cooma's sewage, prompting further calls for locals to get tested. Key points: COVID-19 has been detected for a third time in sewage at Cooma Fragments of the virus have also been found for the first time in Bega's sewage There have been three detections …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Jarryd Hayne quits prison sewing job to take up laundry traineeship

Daily Mail

Jarryd Hayne has quit the $24-a-week sewing job he was assigned in prison and has started a new traineeship in the jail's laundry room - which will see his wage double. He is pictured with wife Amellia Bonnici Hayne had earlier worked in the textiles workshop of the Cooma Correctional Centre where he is carrying out his sentence Hayne, 33, …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Bombala's only GP clinic set to close this month if new doctors can't be found

ABC

The Bombala Medical Centre may close at the end of the month, leaving residents — and those in the neighbouring town of Delegate — without a local GP. Key points: The Bombala Medical Centre will close in two weeks due to staff shortages The owner has put a call out for more doctors in a bid to stay open Residents …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Rental prices rise, vacancies disappear as Snowy Monaro town struggles to balance new arrivals and workers

ABC

After raising five children, fostering more than 100, and having a successful career in the Australian Defence Force, Karen Morris never expected to be sleeping on the floor in her granddaughter's bedroom. Key points: Retiree Karen Morris sleeps in her granddaughter's bedroom due to low rental vacancy rates Rental vacancy rates in the Snowy Monaro have reached 0.4 per cent …

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4 years, 7 months ago

The Target stores closing down and converting to Kmart across Australia are revealed

Daily Mail

Target has revealed which stores will permanently close and which will be turned into Kmarts after the retail chain suffered a $67million slump in sales. Stores throughout all of Australia will close or be converted with most to be finalised by early 2021. CONFIRMED TARGET STORES CLOSING NSW: Armidale, early-mid 2021 Campbelltown, July 2020 Cooma, early-mid 2021 Cootamundra, early-mid 2021 …

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4 years, 9 months ago

Canberra records nine new COVID-19 cases as AFP officer tests positive to coronavirus

ABC

The ACT has recorded nine new COVID-19 cases overnight, bringing the territory's total to 62. Key points: An AFP officer has tested positive to coronavirus, but it is unknown if they are based in Canberra The Canberra Liberals are calling for a commercial rates freeze, saying the ACT's current financial relief package doesn't go far enough Five of the ACT's …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Family of the three 'fallen heroes' who died when their water-bombing plane crashed arrive in Sydney

Daily Mail

The devastated families of the three heroic Americans killed when their firefighting plane crashed in Australia have begun arriving in Sydney. The families of captain Ian McBeth, first officer Paul Clyde Hudson and flight engineer Rick DeMorgan Jr will be offered the chance to visit the crash site northeast of Cooma. An upset woman was seen being escorted through Sydney …

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4 years, 11 months ago

NSW Police and crash site investigators comb through C-130 wreckage, recover black box

ABC

Crash site investigators have retrieved the black box from a downed firefighter aircraft which crashed in southern NSW, killing its American crew, and hope to access it by Sunday. NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said there was a "large fireball" when the aircraft crashed. Photos and videos taken on Friday showed emergency services and crash site investigators combing …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Six RFS volunteers suffer injuries after water tanker rolls on NSW South Coast

ABC

Six Rural Fire Service volunteers have been injured when a water tanker rolled while fighting the Clyde Mountain fire in Eurobodalla on the South Coast. Key points: Six firefighters are being treated in hospital after a tanker rolled in "tough conditions" on the South Coast The C-130 waterbomber that crashed yesterday was an important tool for the Rural Fire Service …

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4 years, 11 months ago

The C-130 Large Air Tanker that crashed while fighting NSW fires — what we know about the plane

ABC

Australia's devastating bushfire season has claimed the lives of three more people — the crew of an aerial water bomber being leased from a North American company. The Large Air Tanker, a Lockheed C-130, went down near Cooma, in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains on Thursday, killing the crew from aerial fire-fighting company Coulson Aviation. "They're big and fat, …

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5 years ago

Three people are charged with breaching NSW's total fire ban

Daily Mail

Three people have been charged with breaching a total fire ban amid significantly elevated fire danger across NSW. The incidents occurred on Saturday and Sunday at Cooma in NSW's south, Tarro near Maitland and Countegany south of Queanbeyan. A Defence Force MRH-90 helicopter is seen at Polo Flat in Cooma The three accused have been issued court attendance notices and …

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5 years ago

Devastating weekend of bushfires takes death toll to 24

Daily Mail

Three fires spanning two states are threatening to merge into a terrifying 'mega-blaze' as locals are told to urgently flee - but many are defying the orders and staying to defend their homes. Two people are missing in southern New South Wales, one near Bodalla on the South Coast and the other person from Bombala near the Victorian border, Rural …

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Jury retires to consider fate of NSW police officer who tasered 95yo Clare Nowland

NSW Police officer's four words before tasering grandmother Clare Nowland with dementia

Kiki Sjoberg drove into the mountains to snap Australia's wild brumbies - and then vanished off the face of the earth

Snowy 2.0 brings new wave of cultures to Cooma, centre helps migrant women thrive

Senior Constable Kristian White ordered to surrender passport accused of manslaughter of Clare Nowland in Cooma

Cooma Correctional Centre inmates caring for dogs and helping them find new homes

Backlog for driver's licence tests in Queanbeyan seeing some travel hours to secure bookings

Tasered grandmother: Former magistrate calls out Commissioner Karen Webb's response to Clare Nowland

Australian police use Taser on 95-year-old with dementia who held steak knife

Investigation finds NSW Rural Fire Service failed to fully communicate dangers before Large Air Tanker crashed near Cooma in January 2020

Rex, Qantas come to verbal blows over Broken Hill route

List of COVID sewage detections in South East NSW grows, now includes Jindabyne

COVID-19 fragments detected in Bega sewage, third detection in Cooma

Jarryd Hayne quits prison sewing job to take up laundry traineeship

Bombala's only GP clinic set to close this month if new doctors can't be found

Rental prices rise, vacancies disappear as Snowy Monaro town struggles to balance new arrivals and workers

The Target stores closing down and converting to Kmart across Australia are revealed

Canberra records nine new COVID-19 cases as AFP officer tests positive to coronavirus

Family of the three 'fallen heroes' who died when their water-bombing plane crashed arrive in Sydney

NSW Police and crash site investigators comb through C-130 wreckage, recover black box

Six RFS volunteers suffer injuries after water tanker rolls on NSW South Coast

The C-130 Large Air Tanker that crashed while fighting NSW fires — what we know about the plane

Three people are charged with breaching NSW's total fire ban

Devastating weekend of bushfires takes death toll to 24