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News.com.au
3 days ago
- General
- News.com.au
Horror as man allegedly stabbed in the neck at Sydney shopping centre
A man was allegedly stabbed in the neck while inside a shopping centre in Sydney's east. Police have launched an investigation after a 23-year-old man was allegedly stabbed inside the Pacific Square shopping centre in Maroubra about 11.30am on Saturday. The man was treated for a wound to the back of his neck before he was taken to hospital in a stable condition. A NSW Ambulance spokeswoman said crews arrived on scene just before midday. 'There was a male in his 20s who had a neck injury, and he was taken to St Vincent's Hospital,' the spokeswoman said. A NSW Police spokeswoman said police were looking for a man wearing a black hoodie with the words 'GEED UP' in light blue letters. The man, described as Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander appearance, is about 180cm tall and was wearing light coloured pants, a black cap and a blue surgical mask. Anyone with information or mobile phone footage has been urged to come forward. Locals flocked to a Facebook community group following the incident, with one writing they were at the centre on Saturday morning. 'How scary,' she wrote.
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
BREAKING NEWS Horror stabbing at Coles Maroubra as locals urged to 'stay away'
A stabbing attack has unfolded at popular Sydney shopping centre. Emergency crews were called to Coles Maroubra Pacific Square about 11.30am Saturday after reports a man was stabbed. A post to the Maroubra Community Facebook group urged people to stay away from the shopping centre. One man was injured in the attack, NSW Police confirmed. 'A 23-year-old man was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics for a wound to the back of his neck before he was taken to St Vincent's Hospital in a stable condition,' a spokesperson said. 'Police are looking for a man described as Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander appearance, about 180cm tall, wearing a black hoodie with the word 'GEED UP' in light blue letters, light coloured pants, a black cap and wearing a blue surgical mask.' The area has been cordoned off and police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident. Anyone with information or mobile phone footage is urged to contact Maroubra Police Station or Crime Stoppers.
Daily Mail
24-05-2025
- Daily Mail
Major update after unbelievable video of couple being attacked by a group of kids as young as 12 shocked Australia
Five youths, some as young as 12, have been arrested after a woman was rushed to hospital after being targeted in an unprovoked attack in Sydney. The woman, 42, and a 40-year-old man, were ambushed inside the courtyard of a unit complex on Oscar Place, in Eastgardens, on Wednesday. In shocking CCTV of the attack, the woman is seen being pushed to the ground and repeatedly hit and kicked as the man called for help and tried to block the blows. The attack continued until a passerby with a dog rushed to help the couple. Police told Daily Mail Australia that despite online reports, there was no information to suggest the couple had been targeted because of their racial background. It comes after the video was shared to TikTok on Wednesday with the caption: 'In Australia, a Chinese couple was surrounded and brutally attacked by over 20 teenagers in the street - just because they spoke Chinese'. 'This isn't an isolated case - there have been similar attacks in Redfern and Waterloo. The police don't care. The media ignores it. 'If we don't speak up, who will?' The couple were taken to Maroubra Police Station where they were treated by paramedics for facial injuries before being taken to Prince of Wales Hospital. They have since been discharged. Two 12-year-old girls were charged on Thursday over the incident and remain before the courts. After further investigations, another five children were arrested. A 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl were arrested on Friday evening after attending Maroubra Police Station. The boy was charged with one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company of other(s) and affray. He was granted conditional bail to attend a children's court on June 16 while the 16-year-old girl will likely be dealt with under the Younger Offenders Act at a later date. A further two 14-year-old girls and a 13-year-old boy attended Maroubra Police Station where they were arrested and each charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company of other(s) and affray. They have been granted conditional bail to appear at a children's court, The 14-year-boy is due to appear at a children's Court on June 16 while the 11 and 13-year-olds are due to appear on June 23. Police are not looking for any other people in relation to the assault.
Sydney Morning Herald
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
The movie about Aussie surfers being mean to Nicolas Cage is finally here. Is it good?
THE SURFER ★★ (MA15+) 101 minutes I imagine tales of Maroubra's Bra Boys may have helped inspire the tribe of Australian surfers giving Nicolas Cage a hard time in this film by Irish filmmakers Lorcan Finnegan and Thomas Martin but in this case, fiction is much stranger than truth. These boys have colonised their beach so completely that Cage's character can't get so much as a toe in the water. He's a divorced businessman who has been in the US for years, but now he's back in Australia harbouring an urgent desire to buy a house overlooking the break he surfed as a kid. He has brought his son with him so they can see the house and have an introductory dip. However, the exaggerated earnestness that makes Cage such an impersonators' delight has already kicked in and he's wallowing so deeply in nostalgia that he hasn't realised his boy doesn't share his euphoria. Having spotted the dirty looks locals are casting in their direction, he'd rather be at school. It came as no surprise to learn that Finnegan and Martin are fans of the Ozploitation films of the 1970s. Those were the days when certain Brits and Americans cherished the myth of Australia as a place where sharks leapt out of the surf at sunbathing tourists and kangaroos hopped along city streets challenging shoppers to boxing matches. And the human inhabitants were just as savage – hence the success of Canadian director Ted Kotcheff's adaptation of the Kenneth Cook novel Wake in Fright, the story of a gormless English schoolteacher barely surviving his first weekend in an Outback town. You know from the start that Cage is going to fare just as badly. His doggy-eyed histrionics guarantee it. But naturally, he doesn't see it that way. If he did, he'd go home to reconsider his real estate purchase and there would be no film. Instead, he stays on after his son leaves, waiting for his real estate agent to confirm the house's sale. And in just one day, he falls apart before our eyes, mocked by kookaburras, menaced by snakes and abused by the locals. They're all in thrall to Scally (Julian McMahon), the surfers' insufferable tribal leader, who has moulded the group into a cult devoted the kind of alpha-male pretensions we now know as toxic masculinity. In practice, this means that Cage is subjected to much nudging, sneering and spitting before the boys start going to work on his Lexus, which he's unwisely but typically left in the carpark.
The Age
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
The movie about Aussie surfers being mean to Nicolas Cage is finally here. Is it good?
THE SURFER ★★ (MA15+) 101 minutes I imagine tales of Maroubra's Bra Boys may have helped inspire the tribe of Australian surfers giving Nicolas Cage a hard time in this film by Irish filmmakers Lorcan Finnegan and Thomas Martin but in this case, fiction is much stranger than truth. These boys have colonised their beach so completely that Cage's character can't get so much as a toe in the water. He's a divorced businessman who has been in the US for years, but now he's back in Australia harbouring an urgent desire to buy a house overlooking the break he surfed as a kid. He has brought his son with him so they can see the house and have an introductory dip. However, the exaggerated earnestness that makes Cage such an impersonators' delight has already kicked in and he's wallowing so deeply in nostalgia that he hasn't realised his boy doesn't share his euphoria. Having spotted the dirty looks locals are casting in their direction, he'd rather be at school. It came as no surprise to learn that Finnegan and Martin are fans of the Ozploitation films of the 1970s. Those were the days when certain Brits and Americans cherished the myth of Australia as a place where sharks leapt out of the surf at sunbathing tourists and kangaroos hopped along city streets challenging shoppers to boxing matches. And the human inhabitants were just as savage – hence the success of Canadian director Ted Kotcheff's adaptation of the Kenneth Cook novel Wake in Fright, the story of a gormless English schoolteacher barely surviving his first weekend in an Outback town. You know from the start that Cage is going to fare just as badly. His doggy-eyed histrionics guarantee it. But naturally, he doesn't see it that way. If he did, he'd go home to reconsider his real estate purchase and there would be no film. Instead, he stays on after his son leaves, waiting for his real estate agent to confirm the house's sale. And in just one day, he falls apart before our eyes, mocked by kookaburras, menaced by snakes and abused by the locals. They're all in thrall to Scally (Julian McMahon), the surfers' insufferable tribal leader, who has moulded the group into a cult devoted the kind of alpha-male pretensions we now know as toxic masculinity. In practice, this means that Cage is subjected to much nudging, sneering and spitting before the boys start going to work on his Lexus, which he's unwisely but typically left in the carpark.
