Sherryn Groch
VerifiedArticles by Sherryn Groch
Batman socks, a dog fountain, a cafe corner: Quiet tributes for two fallen officers
Sherryn Groch, Angelica Snowden The police officers who went to Dezi Freeman's remote home in Victoria's high country to serve a warrant a year ago today say they didn't know what they were walking into. But they knew they had two of their best officers with them. Veteran detective Neal Thompson was on his last proper job just days away from retiring while rising star, 35-year-old Vadim de Waart-Hottart, had recently arrived from Melbourne's Public Order Response Squad.
Exclusive Brethren secretly paid far-right activists to perform stunts disrupting the federal election
Sherryn Groch, Michael Bachelard Elders of a wealthy Christian sect secretly paid bundles of cash to far-right activists for an “influence campaign” to disrupt Albanese government appearances during the last federal election.
Two men arrested, then released after investigation into Dezi Freeman’s movements
; ; Continue reading More for You Continue reading More for You
Two men arrested after investigation into Dezi Freeman’s movements
; ; Continue reading More for You Continue reading More for You
Neo-Nazis lodge High Court fight
; ; Continue reading More for You Continue reading More for You
Antony Catalano out of rehab but plays cat and mouse with media to avoid court
; ; Continue reading More for You ; ; Continue reading More for You
Trump presidency LIVE updates: Elon Musk questions Trump’s first tech announcement; Pentagon sends troops to US-Mexico border
Share The bishop who asked Trump to have mercy on those “scared” of his looming immigration and civil rights crackdowns says she’ll keep praying for the president. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Diocese of Washington raised eyebrows on Tuesday US time when she spoke directly to Trump during a post-inauguration prayer service for the president, calling on him to show mercy to migrants and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
What is Israel’s Iron Dome? mogaznewsen
www.smh.com.au is blocked www.smh.com.au refused to connect.
Despot, radical … peacemaker? The millennial prince and the Middle East ... mogaznewsen
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our website, to show you personalized content and targeted ads, to analyze our website traffic, and to understand where our visitors are coming from.
New details emerge of cricket commentator Peter Roebuck’s death mogaznewsen
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our website, to show you personalized content and targeted ads, to analyze our website traffic, and to understand where our visitors are coming from.
Israeli airstrikes hit refugee camp as Gaza ... mogaznewsen
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our website, to show you personalized content and targeted ads, to analyze our website traffic, and to understand where our visitors are coming from.
Undersea riches to be reaped by the few
By Sherryn Groch Thirty years ago, Australian geologist Ray Binns threw a camera over the side of his science ship and hit a “goldmine” on the bottom of the sea. A kilometre down, his camera had slammed into a hydrothermal vent chimney: a tall spire of copper and gold reaching up from a seafloor hot spring. Binns had spent five years searching the Pacific for them but that day, to outrun a cyclone, he ordered the CSIRO’s Franklin vessel into the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea.
Undersea riches to be reaped by the few mogaznewsen
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our website, to show you personalized content and targeted ads, to analyze our website traffic, and to understand where our visitors are coming from.
The head has been cut off the snake but what’s next for Wagner? mogaznewsen
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our website, to show you personalized content and targeted ads, to analyze our website traffic, and to understand where our visitors are coming from.
The hot-dog selling warlord who turned Russia’s ‘secret army’ on Vladimir Putin mogaznewsen
He was once known as "Putin's chef", the architect of the president's most important influence operations. Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin and why ...
Everything you need to know about Wagner, the ‘shadow army’ behind Putin uprising
There were about 40 American soldiers left at the dusty outpost in eastern Syria, and, with every hour, they were watching the enemy advance. These were pro-Assad forces on the horizon, hundreds of them, here to seize territory from US-backed Kurdish fighters. And yet, when the Americans embedded with the Kurds eavesdropped on the enemy’s radio waves that day in February 2018, they heard Russian voices.
What’s a spy balloon and why would you use one? mogaznewsen
They might seem quaint but there are good reasons balloons are still used for surveillance....
The Arctic Ice between Russia and the US Is Melting. What’s at Stake at the Top of the World?
October 21, 2022 Source: The Sydney Morning Herald Journalist Sherryn Groch Some Indigenous nations tell stories of the northern lights as torches guiding warriors to victory. Today experts say the Arctic is increasingly becoming a theatre of conflict again. Ex-Pentagon official Jim Townsend recalls travelling north after the Cold War to dismantle many of the Allies’ military bases and air defence systems there. “Now we’re going back,” he says. “Things are heating up again.” In more ways than one.
Djokovic has lost his fight to stay in Australia. How did the case unfold and what happens now?
Let's set the stage. It's January 5, days out from the opening of the first tennis tournament to impose mandatory vaccination on players in the era of COVID - in a city that has weathered one of the longest pandemic lockdowns on record (and a country known for its hard COVID borders now struggling against an Omicron outbreak). © Paul Jeffers Novak Djokovic arriving at his lawyer's offices in Melbourne's CBD.
Brain chips can help us thrive in the world of the future - but there are downsides to cyborgism
The GLP Needs Your Help It is easier than ever for advocacy groups to spread disinformation on pressing science issues, such as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. No, vaccines are not harmful. Yes, the use of biotechnology, GMOs or gene editing to develop antigens for treatments including vaccines are part of the solution. To inform the public about what’s really going on, we present the facts and challenge those who don't. We can’t do this work without your help.
What is coronavirus and how worried should we be?
It appeared in a live animal market late last year in the sprawling Chinese city of Wuhan. Now a virus previously unknown to science has spread to at least 60 countries, killing 3000 people and infecting more than 90,000 in what experts warn looks increasingly like to be the world's next pandemic.
Is journalism under threat in Australia? New exhibition on power of free press
There's this letter, amongst the piles and piles of paper Joanne McCarthy has kept in her 13 years reporting on child sexual abuse. It's a short note, scrawled on butcher's paper, dated 2007 - a good three years before the full scale of the systemic cover-up of abuse by the church began to crystallise for McCarthy. There's no return address or contact number. It's signed only "Norman".
Jenny and Bruce lived modestly. Their $10 million bequest shocked everyone
Bruce and Jenny Pryor lived modestly but they left behind the largest bequest in the Australian National University's history. Bruce and Jenny Pryor lived modestly but well, travelling between Canberra and Sydney in their later years and, when the frost crept too close, up to the warm sands of Noosa. Then on their death in July 2017, they left behind a surprise bequest: $10 million for medical research at the Australian National University, the largest endowment in the university's history.
Why I believe maths and science should be compulsory
June 24, 2015 The Turnbull government’s newest policy for this election plans to implement compulsory mathematics and science beyond Year 10, with the rationale of increasing a range of occupations like engineers and statisticians. It also helps us to compete with the education programs of certain Asian countries. Despite being a writer and a humanities major all my school life, I think that everyone needs mathematics. It could even replace English as the compulsory subject. But science?
What do university think of Australia's new Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull?
Hijack The Streets: What do you think of our new PM? September 17, 2015 Tony is out, Turnbull is in, and with him, new feelings of hope. But how much of a change will Turnbull bring to the government, and does it mean the Coalition will win the next election? Hijacked hit the streets to find out what you really think of our new Prime Minister.
Green light for pill testing at Canberra Groovin the Moo
An Australian-first pill testing trial will go ahead at the Groovin the Moo music festival in Canberra on Sunday, after a last-minute breakthrough in negotiations. ACT Minister for Health Meegan Fitzharris confirmed the event's promoter Cattleyard Promotions had given the green light for the trial on Thursday.
Liam Finn on his music career
Liam Finn grew up with music in his head. Of course, it helped that there were always instruments lying around the house – and nowadays he can play at least 67 of them. Son of Neil – of Crowded House and Split Enz fame – and former frontman of Betchadupa, Melbourne-born, New Zealand-raised Liam Finn has been writing songs since he was a kid. “I think the most formative and romantic memories I have are learning how to record on a TASCAM 1/4” 8-track,” he tells Hijacked.
Are Metro ticket inspectors abusing their power?
Jasmine* thought about running half a dozen times before she actually did. It was the tenth time she had been stopped by Metro ticket inspectors in the space of four months. Standing in the rush and press of Melbourne Central station, with two officers closing in, Jasmine already owed Public Transport Victoria (PTV) over $700 in fines. “At that point, I’d been fined so often and for such stupid reasons that I really had no choice,” Jasmine tells Hijacked.
The #libspill that never was
So you woke up this morning and Abbott is still PM. No doubt you’re feeling scared and confused right now; all your grisly Game Of Thrones style fantasises of betrayal having come to nothing. There’s been no sad, noble concession speech from the old guy himself, no stiff upper lip and speedo-clad march off into the sunset. In fact, Tony hasn’t returned to the salty embrace of the sea at all. He’s still very much running the country. So what was all the fuss about?
Meet the Catholic principal standing up for Safe Schools
The first email took him by surprise. Then the letters and the cards started to roll in, lining his office. It was the first term of 2016 and Paul Tobias of St Joseph’s College Geelong had just taken a rather radical stance for a Catholic principal – he had defended the Safe Schools program. The last thing he expected was a thank you from the community.
The US election race: everything you need to know so far
Well, it may still be another eighteen months away, but the race for the White House has well and truly begun, with US presidential candidates now diving into the ring like ninjas in a Tarantino film. This time around, that even includes the rich and notably agile Donald Trump. While Australian federal elections tend to run like every second episode of Frasier (i.e. a few one-liners and some elbow-pinching with Niles), US elections are more like Mortal Kombat.
Shorten pledges funds for Indigenous teachers and students
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has vowed a Labor government will see more Indigenous teachers and students in schools. In his first official announcement of the 2016 election campaign, Shorten has promised $100 million to support Indigenous students at school and boost the number of indigenous teachers in Australian classrooms. $4.5 million will be spent over four years to create 400 new teaching scholarships, split evenly between men and women.
Harris at home within his cultural melting pot
At Auburn North Public School in Western Sydney, principal Mark Harris is the head of a very diverse “family”. Mark Harris, principal of Auburn North Public School, says his students are the happiest children he has ever met. Mark Harris, principal of Auburn North Public School, says his students are the happiest children he has ever met. With 671 students from more than 50 different countries, the primary school caters to the highest percentage of refugee children of any in Australia.
#FiveWordsToRuinAJobInterview advice you should actually listen to
Following on from the fun of #FiveWordsToRuinADate comes #FiveWordsToRuinAJobInterview, Twitter’s latest attempt to become your cosmic spirit guide. But, deep among the many many pages of “I banged your mum” tweets, we’ve hunted down some actual pearls of wisdom. You’re welcome. To start with, be prepared. These guys aren’t fucking around. By now, they’ve probably already taken the time to ring people and ask all kinds of questions about you, but guess what? You still got the interview.
QLD election according to social media
Well, it’s been a dramatic few days of politics and Queensland’s shock election results are still being counted. On Saturday night, just weeks after calling January’s snap state election, Premier Campbell Newman made history rather awkwardly when he lost his Ashgrove seat to the ALP’s Kate Jones in a massive swing towards Labor. It’s only the second time that a premier has lost his seat in Queensland and many are already blaming the big Liberal elephant in the campaign room: Lord Tone himself.
Ten best #FiveWordsToRuinADate tweets so far
In an age where we can end an attraction as fast as we can swipe left on Tinder, going out on an actual date with actual real life food and real life people (and not just their emojiis) is huge. And kind of terrifying. Now, not only do we have to produce some sparkling conversation in real time, but we have to do it all outside the warmth and safety of our good luck dinosaur onesie.
Inside Tony Abbott's new ice taskforce
Last week, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced he was going to war. Not with hordes of climate change scientists, committed homosexual couples or burqas, but with an altogether more slippery foe: the drug crystal methamphetamine, also known “on the street” as ice. Thanks, Grandpa Tony.
Is your degree really preparing you for the workforce?
When I left the leafy world of La Trobe University to study postgraduate journalism at RMIT’s busy city campus, the differences between the two universities were inescapable. Yet, aside from weaving in between traffic jams to make my classes on time, the biggest change for me came in the form of the teaching itself. La Trobe University, like the University of Melbourne or Monash University, is a kingdom at the forefront of theoretical practice.
Mum to Turnbull: "Give the kids a chance"
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has come face to face with his first angry voter on the campaign trail - a single mum concerned about education. Victorian mum, Melinda, who didn't want her last name revealed, stepped through the media pack to confront the prime minister as he was leaving an event at a defence engineering business in Morrabbin. Unhappy about proposed cuts to the family tax benefits scheme, she asked Turnbull how he expected her to pay for schooling for her two sons.
New Music Preview 2015 - Soot Magazine
We uncover the slickest (or sickest) artists that need to be on your iTunes library this year. By Sherryn Groch. Well, it’s a new year and I bet your poor old iTunes is starting to look pretty sad and dusty right about now. (I’d seriously consider cleaning your computer screen.) Do yourself a favour and give your music a much needed tune up with Soot’s pick of the hottest tracks this summer, all of them fresh, sexy and measured to the centigrade.
UN launches education fund for "lost generation" of refugee children
The United Nations will launch the first ever humanitarian fund for the education of refugee children, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced on Monday. The new Education Cannot Wait initiative is set to take centre stage at next week's World Humanitarian Summit in Turkey, with the aim of reaching an estimated 20 million school-age refugees.
The big, dirty gap in Tony’s belt tightening
No, that isn’t the title of the latest erotic novel starring our fair Prime Minister. (With all the frightening things on the internet, I have to assume there’s a niche market somewhere.) It is, however, the $10 billion dollar contradiction in Tony Abbott’s recent spree of “spending cuts.” Since his election in September of last year, our new PM has been on a self-confessed mission to cut “waste” in government spending.
Animal abuse in South East Asia needs our attention
You all know the shot I’m talking about: there’s your Facebook friend, beaming proudly, filter in place, with their arms wrapped around the neck of a tiger. Sometimes, there will be a chain around the animal’s neck as well, or a watery, vacant expression in their eyes. Sometimes, your friend will have gone for the more understated pat on the back, you know, just in case this tiger really is doped up instead of merely having some magical aversion to biting off the hands of Caucasian people.
The Ends of the Earth
My grandma is trying to kill me. I know this now. I am comfortable with the idea, the way you might relax around the spider on the wall one evening with just the right amount of wine rubbing between your synapses and tell it all your darkest secrets. (But that could just be me.) Of course, Grandma’s weapon of choice is perhaps more subtle than your average 90 year old murderer’s. My grandma is trying to kill me with food. Specifically, with food at least four months past its use-by-date.
QLD shock election result is a win for the Great Barrier Reef
Here in Australia, we’re immensely proud of our Great Barrier Reef. Not only is it one of the seven natural wonders of the world, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Nemo’s birthplace, but it’s also a huge tourism pull, employing more people than our entire mining industry and valued at around $6 billion dollars. We even enjoy giving it cute little abbreviations like GBR when we can’t be bothered writing out Great Barrier Reef 20 times in an article. That’s just how much we love our GBR.
Innovation hub for UNSW
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced an “unprecedented” $100 million innovation partnership with China to build a new technology hub at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). China has invested $30 million into the project, which is set to deliver a major boost in Australian research and technology. The university is hoping to attract a total of $100 million in investment by 2025.
The Ends of the Earth
An estimated 1,500 protestors converged on the State Library in Melbourne today to demand an end to the coal industry. From all corners of Australia, the turn out included supporters of the Farmers against Fracking, Quit Coal and Lock the Gate movements, united together against Coal Seam Gas (CSG) and coal mining. Popular figures in the crowd included Senator Greg Barber for Melbourne and several uncanny Gina Rinehart impersonators.
Show More
loading
Actions
Get in touch with Sherryn
Contact Sherryn, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack