Volunteer firefighter charged with deliberately lighting Hunter Valley bushfires
An 18-year-old man has been charged with 15 offences relating to deliberately lighting fires in grassland in July and August [...]
Human remains found by busy highway confirmed to be those of murdered Sydney woman
Human remains which were found beside a busy highway in Goulburn have been identified as a Sydney woman who was murdered [...]
Man charged after allegedly threatening guard, before stealing his car
Police say the man allegedly threatened a security guard at Adelaide's Keswick Barracks before stealing a car and crashing it [...]
NT Ombudsman recommends legislative ban on spit hoods in police custody
A report from the Northern Territory Ombudsman has recommended a ban on spit hoods in police custody — currently in place [...]
New report finds Australia’s whistleblower laws are failing
The Human Rights Law Centre says Australia's laws are lagging behind global standards and are in need of urgent reform [...]
‘He took every hope’: Woman labels father ‘a monster’ for fatal attack on her two-year-old sister
The daughter of a convicted killer confronts her father in the WA Supreme Court over the violent attack he inflicted on [...]
A piece of fictional writing has this Brisbane-based activist fearing he can never return home to Hong Kong
Police allege a Cantonese work of fiction Andrew Chan edited for a writing competition three years earlier violated Hong Kong's national security [...]
Man who bribed prison staffer to smuggle drugs to jailed brother sentenced to home detention
A 30-year-old man who bribed a "corrupt" Yatala prison staffer to give his brother drugs in jail has been sentenced to [...]
More than 150 SA public schools to close due to teacher strike
South Australia's teacher strike is set to go ahead on Friday, resulting in 167 public schools and pre-schools closing for the day, after the government [...]
This is a major moment in our history — and we may never get a re-run
Six years ago, while the sun crept up into the crevices of Uluru, millions of Australians woke to what seemed [...]