Crime

The Government has responded to a major inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women, supporting six out of 10 recommendations.

Prosecutor Karim Khan alleges President Min Aung Hlaing is criminally responsible for violent attacks against the Rohingya ethnic minority in 2017.

Staff at a home in regional NSW called Triple Zero in May 2023, after finding elderly resident Clare Nowland outside of her room in the middle of the night, holding a steak knife.

Five Australian men serving life sentences in Indonesia could return to Australia, according to international news reports.

Friday’s demonstration followed new details about the alleged murder of 19-year-old Isla Bell in early October. Members of Bell’s family attended the rally.

ICAC handed down a final report on Friday, closing its investigation, after finding “no admissible evidence” of racism within NT Police.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has led the Church since 2013. In a statement, he said he stepped down “in sorrow with all victims and survivors of abuse.”

The toddler disappeared a decade ago from his foster grandmother’s home on the NSW Mid-North Coast.

Jacob Hersant was sentenced to one month in prison in a decision handed down in Melbourne’s Magistrates Court on Friday morning.

A NSW Police officer has been suspended with pay after he was charged with assaulting a woman and three girls while on duty.

In a press release on Friday, public prosecutors said three people have been charged with supplying drugs to Payne, one of whom has also been charged with “abandonment of a person followed by death”.

The High Court has ruled ankle bracelets and curfews imposed on recently released immigration detainees was unlawful.

Victoria Police said a car “veered off the road and crashed through a school fence” in Melbourne’s east, around 2:30pm on Tuesday.

Erik and Lyle Menendez have been recommended for resentencing after serving 34 years for the murders of their parents in 1989.

From 2016 to 2024, the Redfern Legal Centre found NSW Police conducted 883 strip searches at train stations.

Bruce Lehrmann will be able to appeal the outcome of his failed defamation case, the Federal Court has ruled.

Former Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries has been charged with sex trafficking, accused of luring men through promises of modelling.

One suit alleges Combs and an unnamed male celebrity raped a 13-year-old girl, in front of an unnamed female celebrity.

In 2022, the previous Labor Government raised the age of criminal responsibility in the NT to 12, becoming the first Australian jurisdiction to do so.

Around 50 men, associated with a white supremacist group, assembled in front of the war memorial, wearing balaclavas.

If bail is granted, Corrective Services NSW can track alleged domestic violence perpetrators with GPS electronic monitoring.

On Thursday, prosecutors in Los Angeles announced they will consider new evidence filed by the Menendez brothers’ lawyers.

An independent review of the Government’s Paid Family and Domestic Violence (FDV) leave has found while the entitlement is “operating as intended”, there has been “low uptake” of it.

The 25-year-old, who said today he “is a Nazi”, performed the salute last year outside a Victorian court.

Former SA Liberal leader David Spiers has been charged with drug offences, after posting a social media video saying police raided his home.

NSW police are trying to stop planned protests in Sydney to mark a year since October 7, making a legal appeal in the Supreme Court.

South Australia MP Troy Bell found guilty of stealing from not-for-profits in his former role as a Department of Education employee.