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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.

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What bus crash victims' families can expect to hear next

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

Newcastle Herald

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.

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

Brett Button's plea deal gave prosecutors certainty.

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'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.'

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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.

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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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Afternoon Update: US paused weapons shipment to Israel; Hunter Valley bus driver plea deal; and the life expectancy of cats

Senior US official says shipment of bombs was paused last week after review of weapons that might be used in Rafah

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Families 'failed' in deal for bus driver who killed 10

Driver Brett Button has been taken into custody after pleading guilty over a bus crash in the NSW Hunter Valley that left 10 people dead and many more injured.

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Bus driver set to plead to charges over fatal crash

Bus driver Brett Button is expected to enter pleas in May to almost 90 charges over a crash which killed 10 people in NSW's Hunter Valley.

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Afternoon Update: Turnbull says Aukus deal ‘mugged by reality’; politicians defend trips to Melbourne during the Cup; and return of the mysterious monolith

Former PM says submarine deal flawed after draft Pentagon budget indicates it will halve the number of submarines built next year

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Bus driver accused of causing 10 deaths 'devastated'

Brett Button says he is devastated by the crash that killed 10 wedding guests last year in the NSW Hunter Valley and in which he was the driver.

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The bus crash, a mysterious disappearance and answers in high-profile murder cases

These are the biggest court cases and investigations of 2024.

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Police case against fatal bus crash driver finalised

Bus driver Brett Button has received the police brief of evidence against him after a crash in the NSW Hunter that cost 10 people's lives and injured 25.

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Greta bus crash driver 'fears being tracked down'

Brett Button, 59, is on bail facing a total of 63 charges.

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Fatal bus crash driver 'fears being tracked down'

A Newcastle magistrate has renewed an order that the address of Brett Button, the bus driver involved in a crash that killed 10 people, not be made public.

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Expert reports coming in Greta bus tragedy case, court told

The matter will be before the court again on November 1, 2023.

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Expert evidence being collected in Greta bus crash case

The bus driver was excused from personally appearing in Newcastle Local Court on Wednesday.

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Greta bus crash driver Brett Button won't appear in court today

The matter had been listed to see if the brief of evidence was complete.

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63 counts: prosecutors lay dozens more charges against Greta bus driver

The new charges relate to the injuries suffered by 25 of the surviving passengers.

Newcastle Herald

Prosecutors seek Greta bus driver's medical, employment records

The 58-year-old had been taking dozens of wedding guests from a lush Hunter Valley estate to the groom and bride's hometown of Singleton.

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Teachers raised concerns about bus driver days before Hunter Valley crash

Teachers raised concerns about the driver accused in the Greta bus crash days before the horror wedding night tragedy, it has emerged.

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Children orphaned and bright futures lost in wedding bus tragedy

A junior doctor and a husband and wife who leave behind orphaned children are among the victims of the Hunter Valley bus crash.

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Afternoon Update: bus tragedy victims identified; Gallagher denies misleading parliament; and ‘dead’ woman bangs on coffin at own wake

Bus driver granted bail after magistrate acknowledges ‘suffering’

Newcastle Herald

Bail laws are not about guilt and punishment

The court drew on an important tenet of the Bail Act when releasing Brett Button on Tuesday.

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