Ben Cubby
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- Sep 23, 2026
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Milkshakes, ‘mad’ advice and archive fever: Why Richard Glover is the happiest man in the room (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. I arrive early at the Tropicana Caffe in Darlinghurst, but Richard Glover has got there first and is sitting smiling to himself in a corner booth, the happiest man in the room. Glover explains that he is coming up for air after a year of “archive fever”. “The historian Clare Wright talks about the term. I’ve been able to spend a year, often in the state library, with the manuscripts and the books
‘Big Brother was watching’: Ex-students recall life at Opus Dei-linked Sydney school (opens the original)
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“Big brother was always watching you.” This is how a former student recalled Redfield College, the Opus Dei-linked Sydney school that has featured in the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s inquiry into secret political donations. Four targets in ICAC’s Operation Rosny – Robert Assaf, Jeremy Greenwood and Jean-Claude and Charles Perrottet – received their Catholic education at Redfield before starting their activities with the Reformers, a Christian activist group in the NSW Liberal Part
How a covert tree camera caught an ex-bikie’s massive illegal asbestos dump (opens the original)
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A former associate of the Rebels bikie gang has been found guilty of secretly dumping 73,000 tonnes of asbestos waste in Sydney’s north-west after one of the biggest pollution stings in the history of the NSW Environment Protection Authority. Andrew Hughes and his company Ant Civil Pty Ltd are facing penalties of up to $4.2 million for creating a massive unlicensed waste dump at Wheeny Creek in the Hawkesbury region. The Herald had previously revealed that thousands of truckloads of construction
From God to Godfather: The secretive young men behind the Reformers (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The secretive group of young Christian men at the centre of this week’s explosive Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry were worried. “We’re losing the culture war and it’s our fault,” says a training manual developed by the group that came to call themselves the NSW Reformers. The document lists a series of supposed culture war defeats, including the legalisation of same-sex marriage
‘Deliberate and egregious’: Former bikie associate guilty of asbestos dumping (opens the original)
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A former associate of the Rebels bikie gang dumped more than 2800 tonnes of asbestos-laced construction waste on private properties in south-west Sydney after duping property owners into believing he was sending them normal dirt. Andrew Hughes and his company Ant Civil Pty Ltd were ordered to pay $335,043 in penalties and costs by Liverpool Local Court, and clean up the sites they contaminated in Rossmore and Thirlmere within 30 days. “These were deliberate and egregious crimes, with text messag
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