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A north Queensland university is investigating how a staff member not only held onto his job after raping a student, but was promoted.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, crime, university-and-further-education, townsville-4810, qld
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A man who robbed a taxi driver at knife point and was involved in a carjacking in Canberra's north is sentenced to more than four years' jail.
Topics: armed-robbery, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, melba-2615, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedThe man accused of killing five people and injuring dozens of pedestrians during a rampage through Melbourne's CBD is taken in for questioning at Melbourne West police station on Spencer Street.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, disasters-and-accidents, community-and-society, death, melbourne-3000
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A former SA Health employee who sent her children fake death threats and bloodstained clothing as part of an elaborate scam is described as a "dedicated" and "inspirational" mother in court.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, fraud-and-corporate-crime, crime, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedThe bail justice system is unique to Victoria, but following Melbourne's Bourke Street tragedy, it's facing a shake-up.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedA woman tells the High Court she signed documents for the purchase of a building owned by former Family First senator Bob Day without reading them.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, federal-parliament, federal-government, adelaide-5000, sa, act, australia
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| UpdatedA Senate committee is urged to ensure civil celebrants cannot refuse services to same-sex couples due to religious or conscientious objections.
Topics: community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, law-crime-and-justice, family-and-children, marriage, government-and-politics
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| UpdatedAn Adelaide couple who lured the woman's ex-boyfriend to a remote location where he and a friend were set on fire are sentenced to significant jail terms.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, assault, crime, elizabeth-north-5113, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedSouth Australian Senator Nick Xenophon's call for a nationwide review of bail laws after Melbourne's deadly car attack is dismissed by the Law Society of South Australia.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, laws, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, adelaide-5000, sa
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Two police officers are taken to hospital after they were allegedly assaulted while trying to arrest a man and a woman who ditched a stolen car and attempted to steal another west of Brisbane.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, ipswich-4305
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government will establish a night court for magistrates to hear after-hours bail requests, as part of a big shake-up of the system following Melbourne's Bourke Street tragedy.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, disasters-and-accidents, community-and-society, death, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedIt's a high stakes game for former Labor senator Anne McEwen, who is waiting not just to hear whether former Family First senator Bob Day was validly elected, but also what orders the court will make about how the vacancy should be filled.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act, australia, sa
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| UpdatedPolice are treating the death of a man who tried to evade police by swimming more than 200 metres out to sea on South Australia's West Coast as a death in custody.
Topics: accidents, police, law-crime-and-justice, ceduna-5690
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| UpdatedThe names of two more of the five people killed in the car attack in Melbourne's CBD on Friday are released, with their families describing them as a young woman of "extravagant humour" and a devoted, loving husband and father.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, melbourne-3000
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Bus drivers want assaults on them to be treated as seriously as those on health and emergency workers, with dozens of attacks recorded this year already, including two caught on camera and shared exclusively with the ABC.
Topics: assault, crime, law-crime-and-justice, unions, government-and-politics, brisbane-4000, qld
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Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, women, rights, law-crime-and-justice, france
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| UpdatedDaniel Andrews says it is his job to address the "anger and frustration" Victorians feel in the wake of the Melbourne car attack on Friday, but refuses to be drawn on how bail laws might be reformed.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, disasters-and-accidents, community-and-society, death, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe body of a man who ran into the ocean while being chased by police on South Australia's West Coast is recovered from the water.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, ceduna-5690
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| UpdatedA baby boy becomes the fifth person to die following a deadly car rampage in Melbourne's CBD on Friday, with four victims remaining in critical condition.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, melbourne-3000
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Turkey's parliament approves a constitutional reform bill that includes strengthening the powers of the presidency, a move that paves the way for a referendum this year that could see President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in office until 2029.
Topics: government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, turkey
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| UpdatedVictoria Police members say the contentious no-pursuit policy is leaving police hamstrung, and needs a complete overhaul after the deaths of five people in a car rampage in Melbourne's CBD.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, police, law-crime-and-justice, laws, melbourne-3000
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A Gold Coast man is arrested over four south-east Queensland sexual assaults spanning from 2008 to 2016, with police appealing for anyone who may have been a victim to come forward.
Topics: assault, crime, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedMichael Grant makes a rare public statement in defence of the NT judiciary following news reports linking low numbers of youths in detention to a recent spike in property crime.
Topics: youth, prisons-and-punishment, judges-and-legal-profession, child-abuse, crime, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, darwin-0800, nt
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| UpdatedVictoria's chief of police defends the force's handling of a car pursuit which ended with a man driving into a Melbourne mall yesterday, killing four people and injuring 30 others.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, state-parliament, government-and-politics, community-and-society, disasters-and-accidents, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA bird is strangled and used to threaten groups of people walking through Brisbane's CBD this morning, police say.
Topics: animals, animal-welfare, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000