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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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| UpdatedThere's a call for laws in Papua New Guinea that ban children from working on the streets to be enforced.
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The CEO of Kalgoorlie-Boulder says he does not want to hear platitudes and expects the Premier and other state ministers to come with ideas and solutions ahead of a leaders summit this weekend.
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| UpdatedTopics: local-government, crime-prevention, regional, regional-development, aboriginal, indigenous-policy, kalgoorlie-6430
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The number of deaths on Wide Bay roads so far this year is almost double that from the same period last year.
Topics: police, crime, crime-prevention, driver-education, bundaberg-4670, bargara-4670, maryborough-4650, gympie-4570
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The New South Wales Police Force's rural crime investigators are gathering at a forum on the state's mid north coast, aimed at identifying crime trends and finding ways to tackle them.
Topics: crime-prevention, regional, police, port-macquarie-2444, nsw
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| UpdatedYoung people of Pacific origin continue to be over-represented in Australia's prisons.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, youth, pacific, australia
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Somali pirates free 26 Asian sailors held captive in a small fishing village for more than four years since their ship was hijacked in the Indian Ocean, Government officials say.
Topics: maritime, law-crime-and-justice, crime, crime-prevention, prisons-and-punishment, somalia, pacific, asia
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Warnings should precede shock adverts campaigning against crime and poor driving because they are triggering PTSD-like symptoms in victims, a support group says.
Topics: mental-health, advertising, law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, community-and-society, domestic-violence, human-interest, sa, adelaide-5000
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The Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory will today hold a public meeting on the Tiwi Islands where youth workers are looking at ways to prevent young people entering the criminal justice system.
Topics: youth, community-and-society, rural-youth, social-policy, government-and-politics, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, mental-health, health, crime-prevention, tiwi-0810, nt, australia
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| UpdatedA community centre at Broken Hill in far-west New South Wales is praised by police and residents for helping reduce crime in a disadvantaged neighbourhood.
Topics: crime-prevention, broken-hill-2880
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A crash claims the life of an Outlaws motorcycle gang member at the start of a Tasmania tour that police say will be closely monitored.
Topics: road, accidents, clubs-and-associations, crime, crime-prevention, elizabeth-town-7304
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There have been more than 18 reports of creepy or threatening clowns across Victoria over the past two weeks, according to the state's police chief, with more expected in the lead-up to Halloween.
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Coles CCTV footage shows customers failing to pay for items at the self-service checkout areas.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, australia
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Police seize a gun found under a patient's pillow in a mental health ward at Adelaide's Queen Elizabeth Hospital but say no threats were made.
Topics: mental-health, crime-prevention, woodville-5011, sa
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| UpdatedA northern WA goldfields town turns around youth crime rates through a campaign holding agencies to account, and revamping a stalled youth program.
Topics: youth, crime-prevention, indigenous-policy, social-policy, local-government, non-governmental-organisations, police, indigenous-culture, laverton-6440
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| UpdatedBroome police have shot a 66-year-old man, who they say threatened a taxi driver and officers with a knife, near the town's popular tourist area of Cable Beach.
Topics: police, aboriginal, crime-prevention, broome-6725
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A 6 per cent increase in Queensland's overall crime rate is attributed to drug use and an increase in the reporting of domestic violence.
Topics: police, crime-prevention, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, brisbane-4000
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In a tiny church kitchen in rural Victoria, a group of former prisoners is busily producing jam drops for primary school children. Some of the men describe their baking as a quest for redemption, but among their young customers they've already earned the title "Alli's Angels". Read full story.
Topics: crime, crime-prevention, food-and-cooking, religion-and-beliefs, community-education, education-collaborative-projects, stawell-3380, ararat-3377
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| UpdatedIn a tiny church kitchen in rural Victoria, a group of former prisoners busily produces jam drops for primary school children, describing their baking as a quest for redemption.
Topics: crime, crime-prevention, religion-and-beliefs, education-collaborative-projects, community-education, stawell-3380, ararat-3377