Riley Walter

After a busy couple of years at The Advertiser (and a short but sweet stint at the NT News), I’m pleased to this week join the @smh team to help tell the stories that matter most to Sydneysiders. I’ll still be reachable via phone, WhatsApp, Signal, Proton etc.

Mohamad and Sahar were lovingly nicknamed the “war couple” by family members celebrating their engagement. They may never see each other again @smh smh.com.au/national/days-…

Each time the sound of an Israeli airstrike reverberates across Beirut, Sydney-born woman Manal Mandoh puts on a brave face for her children. But even her eight-year-old son can see her fear @smh smh.com.au/national/every…

Antonio Lo Iacono and Lui Polimeni were fit, healthy young men when they died suddenly on the sporting field in eerily similar circumstances seven years apart. Their families suspect a little-known condition, and they want answers @smh @theage smh.com.au/national/anton…

Joey Orrock was a young woman figuring out how to be comfortable in her body when she was ordered to strip naked at a 2019 music festival. Now, she’s one of thousands of people who may be entitled to compensation from NSW Police @smh w/ @NickNewling smh.com.au/national/nsw/j…

Joey wanted a fun day out. She ended up being stripped naked and humiliated smh.com.au/national/nsw/j…

Some incredible contract details in this

Since 2021, a trustee company controlling a fortune of Indigenous mining royalties has been paid millions of dollars for unexplained administration costs, leaving Adnyamathanha native titleholders wondering where their money has gone @smh smh.com.au/national/the-m…

Macarthur FC sacked its high-profile coach, Dwight Yorke, after just 13 games in charge following a controversial dressing room spray. Now the club has been ordered to pay him almost $300,000 @smh smh.com.au/sport/vindicat…

There’s an edited extract of ANGEBALL in today’s @GoodWeekendMag, containing some fairly raw reflections from Ange Postecoglou on his exit from and relationship with Australian football smh.com.au/lifestyle/life…

For police investigating Denise Govendir’s 1998 murder, something about her husband’s story didn’t quite add up. More than 25 years later, he’s been charged with killing her @smh smh.com.au/national/nsw/h…

The good news keeps rolling in. First copy waiting for me at home. She’s a beauty. Get yours here: hachette.com.au/vince-rugari/a…

EXCLUSIVE: European organised crime groups are flooding South Australian streets with ketamine being cut with potentially harmful chemicals and sold for a quarter of the price of cocaine @theTiser adelaidenow.com.au/truecrimeaustr…

EXCLUSIVE: In 2004, Byron Pickett led Port Adelaide to a historic premiership. Two decades later, the Norm Smith Medal winner has nothing to show for more than a decade playing at footy’s highest level @theTiser adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-aus…

Kim Long Rim has arrived in Adelaide after being extradited from Melbourne on Saturday night over the 2007 murder of 21-year-old Thea Kheav in Parafield Gardens. Rim has been a suspect in the murder since early 2008, when allegedly fled to Cambodia @theTiser

EXCLUSIVE: Every day for the past year, Wendy Smith has thought of her son Antonio, who died in a footy tragedy felt across the state last April. But despite its challenges, she has used her grief to carry on the “larrikin” footballer’s legacy @theTiser adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-aus…

EXCLUSIVE: The man who allegedly murdered an Adelaide mother in a random attack was released from an SA Health-funded mental health care centre just hours before the brutal killing – and within weeks of telling police he could hurt somebody @theTiser adelaidenow.com.au/truecrimeaustr…

EXCLUSIVE: The Adelaide mother at the centre of alleged murder plots in South Australia is being investigated by Taiwanese police for financial crimes she is suspected of committing while on the run @theTiser adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-aus…

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Adelaide woman Lisa Lines is being held in isolation under 24/7 guard in a Pacific Islands prison amid fears she poses a safety threat ahead of her extradition to Australia on charges over an alleged murder plot @theTiser with @jdschriever adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-aus…

Congrats @rileywalter_ A gun already and excited to see where your career takes you 👏👏