NT government promises 50 extra police for crime and antisocial behaviour prevention unit
A new police unit is being established in the Northern Territory to tackle alcohol-fuelled crime, as the government attempts to [...]
WA government frustrated with magistrate’s acquittal of 10yo child who rammed police car
Authorities express frustration after a magistrate acquitted a 10-year-old boy, who tried to ram a police car in a stolen [...]
Girl, 12, on torture charges a violent drug user likely to reoffend, judge hears
A Sunshine Coast court is told the accused is one of three girls who were "active and equal participants" in [...]
Court rejects tomato-tin ecstasy importer’s appeal to have conviction overturned
Drug importer Rob Karam is serving 35 years in jail in part for his role in the import of 15 [...]
Police allege man threatened officers and paramedics with a knife before being shot
Police say a man who threatened them with a knife outside a hotel in Bowen this morning has been shot [...]
‘We have a very, very thin blue line’ : Calls to boost police numbers in Victorian towns
After their business in a small town was broken into for the second time, Josh and Samantha feel defenceless to [...]
Kathleen Folbigg speaks out after convictions for killing children overturned
Kathleen Folbigg, once labelled the nation's worst female serial killer, has the convictions for killing her four children overturned by the [...]
SA Premier gives greyhound racing industry two years to ‘clean up its act’, as independent inquiry hands down review
The South Australian Government has given the greyhound racing industry two years to improve its standards, or the sport will [...]
SA announces royal commission into family and sexual violence
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Flying doctor landing on Eyre Highway in dramatic Nullarbor rescue prompts calls for airstrip upgrade
There are renewed calls to upgrade a remote airstrip after the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) performed a rare highway [...]