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NSW police reopen two investigations after landmark gay hate crime inquiry

Police commissioner Karen Webb hopes new technology and fresh eyes lead to breakthrough in two of state’s 854 unsolved murders

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NSW government announces free weekend train travel in bid to avoid industrial action – as it happened

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Police chief vows to 'do better' on gay hate crime

Police need to improve how they deal with LGBTQI hate crimes after a scathing review on the issue, NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb says.

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The four deaths that stood out across 3,000 pages of the NSW gay hate crimes inquiry

Commissioner John Sackar found the four men’s cases should be referred to the coroner for a fresh inquest. Here’s what we know about them

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Police urged to apologise for handling of hate crimes

At a time when discrimination and violence against LGBTQI people was rife, many victims were unable to turn to police for help, a government inquiry has found.

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NSW Police Were ‘Indifferent’ When Investigating Potential LGBTIQ Hate Crimes, Finds Inquiry

An inquiry into NSW Police has found the force needs to check its biases after examining decades of unsolved crimes against LGBTIQ+ people.

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NSW police failed victims of gay hate crimes: inquiry

Mandatory training for police about the LGBTQI community and investigating possible hate crimes has been recommended by a special inquiry into unsolved murders.

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Shining a light on injustice: how an inquiry fought for LGBTIQ recognition

The New South Wales Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crimes has held its final public sitting in Sydney today.

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'Defensive' police missed opportunity in gay hate probe

A special inquiry into suspected gay hate crimes in NSW has heard police took an "adversarial" approach to the landmark probe.

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Small steps of justice: families await the outcome of landmark inquiry into gay hate crimes

The special commission examined the unsolved deaths of more than 30 people between 1970 and 2010 believed to be victims of LGBTQ+ hate crimes

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Police accused of choosing to ignore gay hate motives

A senior police investigator denies his detectives assumed levels of gay hate crime were exaggerated as they examined a number of deaths.

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Police rated Sydney gay killing case 'nil priority'

A detective says she doesn't know why the death of US mathematician Scott Johnson was classed as unsolvable despite her recommending further investigation.

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Hate inquiry to probe major case after police bid fails

The death of American mathematician Scott Johnson in Sydney will be scrutinised at a special inquiry into suspected gay hate crimes despite police objections.

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Never ending grief for Hunter family of gay hate crime victim

'It was three days later ... after I identified the body ... they took me into a room and said, why'd you do it?'

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Inquiry to grill NSW police over cold case blunders

An inquiry into unsolved suspected gay hate crimes has revealed systemic issues and cold case mismanagement within the NSW Police Force.

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Senator says she has been ‘excluded’ from writing pamphlet – as it happened

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Gay hate inquiry returns to probe police failures

Several NSW Police strike forces into gay hate crimes will be scrutinised by the special inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crimes in Sydney.

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Lost DNA evidence ‘could be the cause’ of gay man’s Sydney murder going unsolved, inquiry told

Counsel tells NSW inquiry blood and semen samples related to Gerald Cuthbert’s 1981 death went missing the following year

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Former NSW homicide squad boss concedes gay-hate death findings overturned

An inquiry into the gay-hate crimes in Sydney in the late 1980s hears police internally reversed findings by the state coroner, rather than look into the murders.

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Police overlooked ‘compelling’ evidence of homophobia in 1989 murder, landmark NSW inquiry hears

Inquiry into LGBTQ+ hate crimes told a ‘mosaic of motives’ showed anti-gay bias in killing of John Hughes

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Commissioner Karen Webb says police willing to cooperate with gay hate inquiry

A special commission of inquiry investigating dozens of unsolved cases in NSW that may have been LGBT hate attacks is read a statement from Police Commissioner Karen Webb.

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Top cop's olive branch to gay-hate inquiry

NSW Police says no offence was intended when the inquiry into historic gay-hate crimes was told significant police resources had been diverted to the probe.

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NSW Police questioned researchers' independence in gay hate crime review, inquiry hears

NSW Police were worried academics engaged to help review suspected gay-hate murders could be bias if they were "connected to the gay community", an inquiry hears.

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Judge blasts ‘offensive’ NSW Police claim at gay hate probe

NSW Police assertions that a dozen homicide investigations and reviews are stalled due to a gay-hate crimes inquiry are "offensive" and "misguided",

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New South Wales gay hate inquiry told it should not look at 'adequacy' of landmark police report

The inquiry is holding more public hearings in Sydney as it investigates suspected gay hate attack deaths in the state between 1970 and 2010.

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