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Bus company 'highly likely' to be sued for horror Greta crash

A class action reached the Supreme Court on Friday.

Newcastle Herald

Bus company 'highly likely' to be sued for horror crash

The NSW government is likely to join a bus company involved in a crash that killed 10 people to a class action alleging poor road design caused the tragedy.

AAP

‘This case is different’: Crikey readers on the sentencing of the Hunter Valley bus driver

Does a 32-year sentence — likely the rest of Brett Button’s life — deliver on the promises of our justice system?

Crikey

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There is little justice in the sentence given to Hunter Valley bus driver Brett Button

Does a 32-year sentence — likely the rest of Button’s life — deliver on the promises of our justice system?

Crikey

What does it mean to throw the Hunter Valley bus crash driver into the abyss?

Are we really convinced that justice is being done by punishing a man not for the intent and purpose of his crime but for the fact that it had the worst outcome possible?

Crikey

Greta bus crash driver set to appeal 32-year sentence for killing 10

Brett Button was jailed last week for 'unleashing carnage'.

Newcastle Herald

Bus crash class action: roundabout, speed limit, warning signs in question

'They have a hell of a lot to answer for,' one victim's father says.

Newcastle Herald

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Bus crash victims sue state over 'unsafe' interchange

Survivors and family of victims of a horror bus crash that killed 10 people are suing a government over alleged failings in the roundabout where it happened.

AAP

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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have sparred in a contentious US presidential debate

The Guardian - AU

Hunter Valley Bus Driver Sentenced To 32 Years In Jail Over Crash That Killed 10 People

"As a consequence of the offender's abandonment of responsibility, 10 innocent lives were lost, nine innocent victims suffered grievous bodily harm and 16 innocent victims suffered bodily injury," Judge Roy Ellis said as he handed down his sentence.

Pedestrian.tv

'Nothing can bring them back': loved ones react to bus crash driver's sentence

Brett Button has been jailed for 32 years for causing the wedding bus tragedy.

Newcastle Herald

Three decade sentence for bus driver's 'ultimate sin'

Brett Button has been jailed for 32 years after expressing sorrow and shame for causing a bus crash that left 10 dead and 25 injured in the NSW Hunter Valley.

AAP

'Trapped in your bus of hell': harrowing stories as survivors face Greta driver

Loved ones of victims and the injured have confronted Brett Button today.

Newcastle Herald

Bus driver 'ignored' pleas to slow before deadly crash

A survivor of a horror Hunter Valley bus crash has likened the driver's bowed head in court to his hands being in his pockets while a passenger bled to death.

AAP

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The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: report into veteran suicides released; Harris and Trump tied in polls; and a homeless mother shares her story

Chair Nick Kaldas says royal commission should be a ‘line in the sand’

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Hunter Valley Bus Driver Will Receive Sentence After Three Days Of ‘Unsettling’ Victim Statements

Brett Button, the driver of the Hunter Valley bus which crashed and killed 10 people in June last year, will soon receive his sentence.

Newcastle Herald

'Not about revenge': judge's warnings over Greta bus crash sentence

'It is about accountability, deterrence and punishment.'

AAP

Bus crash survivor's 'bad feeling' about wife, daughter

Injured survivors of a horrific bus crash in the NSW Hunter Valley have described losing their loved ones in court as driver Brett Button awaits his sentence.

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AAP

Opioid-addled bus driver to hear from victims of crash

Bus driver Brett Andrew Button has admitted he took more painkillers than doctors suggested and joked with passengers before a horrific wedding crash.

Newcastle Herald

What bus crash victims' families can expect to hear next

The next step in the case will include dozens of victim impact statements.

AAP

No review of bus-driver plea deal for 'abused' families

Families of those killed in the Hunter Valley wedding bus crash should have been consulted after manslaughter charges were dropped, the NSW premier says.

Newcastle Herald

How doubts over evidence drove DPP to accept bus driver's plea deal

Brett Button's plea deal gave prosecutors certainty.

Newcastle Herald

'Inexplicable': what family was told about bus crash driver's plea deal

'It's about justice rather than punishment ... as a family, we've hit rock bottom.'

AAP

Mum says daughter's body kept on crashed bus for days

The mother of Hunter Valley bus crash victim Rebecca Mullen says she has lost faith in justice after a plea deal tore apart any progress the family had made.

Newcastle Herald

Singleton bus crash victim's mother reveals 'torment' over driver plea deal

'They decided to do what was easy and timely, not what was right.'

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