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| UpdatedAn experienced police officer who pulled a gun on a speeding motorist in outback Queensland pleads not guilty to assault and deprivation of liberty.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, community-and-society, brisbane-4000, longreach-4730, qld
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| UpdatedA deadly fight that began during a State of Origin telecast at a Sydney hotel will see a man spend at least 13 years in jail.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, colyton-2760, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedAmong the hundreds of New Zealand citizens being deported from Australia under a crack-down on migrants with criminal convictions, around half are believed to be of Pasifika origin.
Topics: emigration, immigration, crime, pacific, australia, new-zealand
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A Canberra woman charged with the murder of her mother in 2014 should not be held responsible for the crime because of her longstanding mental health conditions, defence lawyers will argue at her trial.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, crime, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act, australia
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A 15-year-old boy is charged with more than a dozen offences following a crash in Melbourne's south-east that left one teen dead and another in a critical condition.
Topics: crime, narre-warren-3805, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA baby koala called Alfred is in good health after being found in a zipped canvas bag by police after they arrested a 50-year-old woman in Brisbane's south.
Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, animals, crime, police, brisbane-4000, wishart-4122, qld
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A jealous teenager who stalked his ex-girlfriend and broke into her Adelaide home where he stabbed her and her new boyfriend, is sentenced to more than four-and-a-half years' jail for his 'crime of passion'.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA man who was so drunk he did not remember sexually assaulting his fiancee's colleague while she lay sleeping at a New Year's Eve party is spared jail time as the judge warns him not to drink to excess ever again.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, adelaide-5000, sa
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A Byron Bay physiotherapist is harassed by anti-vaccination campaigners who have mistaken him for a pro-immunisation blogger known as Reasonable Hank.
Topics: vaccines-and-immunity, social-media, crime, byron-bay-2481
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Topics: health, vaccines-and-immunity, social-media, crime, byron-bay-2481
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| UpdatedPolice in Melbourne are looking for a group of up to 15 hoodie-wearing teenagers after a spate of "brazen" thefts at Officeworks stores across the city's south-east over the weekend.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, chadstone-3148, yarra-glen-3775, carnegie-3163, highett-3190
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| UpdatedGarry Reginald Dubois pleads not guilty to the 1974 murder of Barbara McCulkin and her two daughters, Vicki and Leanne, while questions are raised about the reliability of a key witness in the trial.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, police, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, brisbane-4000, qld, torbanlea-4662, warwick-4370
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Two men and a woman are arrested after a stolen station wagon attempts to ram a police car in Mornington, south of Melbourne.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, mornington-3931, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA south-west Sydney man may face charges after allegedly shooting a home intruder with a bow and arrow.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, wattle-grove-2173, sydney-2000, australia
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| UpdatedAn Australian working for a non-governmental organisation in Afghanistan is reported kidnapped in the capital Kabul, officials say.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, afghanistan
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Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice
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| UpdatedNigerian army troops rescue one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists more than two years ago, with a 10-month-old son born to a Boko Haram fighter.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, islam, nigeria
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| UpdatedA man and a woman appear in an out-of-hours court today charged with murder of Launceston man Aaron Matthew Monaco.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, newnham-7248, tas
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The amount of heroin detected being smuggled into Tasmania in the first three months of this financial year is three times the amount seized for the entire previous year.
Topics: drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, drug-use, tas
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Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police
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| UpdatedSouth Australia's controversial home detention sentencing option is under review after several court decisions and two appeals being lodged.
Topics: crime, crime-prevention, law-crime-and-justice, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedFirefighters are battling blazes across NSW, as engineers carry out safety inspections after a volatile industrial fire in Sydney's west tore through a car wreckers yard and forced the evacuation of nearby homes and businesses.
Topics: bushfire, fires, crime, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA man and a woman are in police custody after a 41-year-old was stabbed multiple times at a Launceston home and died en route to hospital.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, newnham-7248, tas
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| UpdatedA 16-year-old boy is charged with starting a "ferocious" fire in Sydney's west that damaged a home and led to the evacuation of others.
Topics: bushfire, fires, crime, sydney-2000