
Sam Cucchiara
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Reporter @ACurrentAffair9 | Formerly @9NewsAus | 2020 Melbourne Press Club Young Journalist of the Year recipient | [email protected]
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined August 2012
“Gutless”: @ACurrentAffair9 host Ally Langdon blasts Immigration Minister Andrew Giles over Home Affairs’ treatment of Melbourne asylum seeker family who spoke out on television.
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Exclusive: A Melbourne asylum seeker family could be forced to close their kebab shop after eleven years in...
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Breaking: Patrick Stephenson, son of ex-AFL player Orren, can be revealed as the man accused of murdering Ballarat mum Samantha Murphy. He has withdrawn his application for a suppression order, meaning he can now be named. @ACurrentAffair9
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RT @SharnelleVella: Tried to put questions to the Premier today about crime in Melbourne only to have a State Goverment media advisor purpo….
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Exclusive: A convicted sex offender who has spent time in jail is among several people being looked at and spoken to by police searching for missing mother Samantha Murphy @ACurrentAffair9 @9NewsMelb.
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Exclusive: Violent criminals including a sex offender among a number of people police have looked into/spoken to as detectives cast a wide net in the search for missing Ballarat mum Samantha Murphy. More tonight @ACurrentAffair9 7pm
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The search for missing Ballarat East mum Samantha Murphy to be scaled down as Missing Persons Squad detectives take over the case. @ACurrentAffair9 @9NewsMelb @9NewsAUS
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Update: @VictoriaPolice has cleared the crime scene. No word yet if what they found has any relevance to Samantha’s disappearance.
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BREAKING: Police have evacuated part of a walking trail and declared a crime scene after an item was discovered in shrub during the search for missing Ballarat East mum Samantha Murphy. @ACurrentAffair9 @9NewsMelb
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Exclusive: In her first public statement in eight years, cancer con Belle Gibson pleads for “humanity” in response to questions over why she’s refusing to pay a $410,000 fine she got in 2017. @ACurrentAffair9 Monday
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Stuart Anderson murdered his elderly neighbour then called 000 to report the crime. He told me in an interview at the time he hoped the “cops catch the son of a b*****”. When @ACurrentAffair9 returns Monday night, how police unravelled his lies.
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"Campaign of terror": A Melbourne glass company boss has been fined $60,000 by a Magistrate, after @ACurrentAffair9 broadcast video of him in 2021 hanging a worker upside down on a crane. More tonight at 7pm.
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Breaking: Handyman Stuart Anderson, who told me in an interview in 2019 that he found his elderly neighbour Vicki Ramadan dead inside her home - has been found GUILTY of her murder. @ACurrentAffair9 @9NewsMelb
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‘Senator sixpack’: Victorian Senator David Van used official Instagram to chat up women. Exclusive via @ACurrentAffair9 and @theage .
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Ex-Liberal senator David Van’s use of his official social media accounts to message women – using terms like “babe” and “hon” – raised alarm in Scott Morrison’s office in 2021.
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"Senator six-pack": Victorian politician David Van facing further questions about his fitness for office, following leaked messages and emails. Exclusive on @ACurrentAffair9 now.
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RT @9NewsMelb: "It's been an honour and a pleasure.". After 20 years on the desk together, @LNixon9 and @TJch9 share a heartfelt message wi….
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Atena's family fled to Aus from Iran a decade ago. Despite winning a scholarship to study at Uni, Atena was this year booted from class because she doesn't have permanent residency. Before the election, she says Minister @andrewjgiles promised to help.
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Palestine student protest: Some staff have closed their stores as students are climbing structures inside Melbourne Central @ACurrentAffair9
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Free Palestine student protestors have marched into Melbourne Central in the city @ACurrentAffair9
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A dispute over the release of 9yo Anvi’s body – who was killed alongside her mum & stepdad in Daylesford – has ended up in court. Anvi’s maternal grandparents and her dad both want her body released to them. A Coroner has told the families she’s “deeply distressed” by the dispute.
“God always gets the really good people”. Pratibha Sharma, her partner Jatin and Pratibha’s nine-year-old daughter Anvi were all killed while enjoying a Sunday afternoon together at a beer garden in Daylesford. @ACurrentAffair9 .
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