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| UpdatedPresident Donald Trump's order to restrict people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US sparks outrage but hits a roadblock when a federal judge says stranded travellers can stay in the country.
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, immigration, united-states
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| UpdatedFour days into a new century, Marc Mietus left Melbourne to move to Queensland to begin a new life, but his family never saw him again and still don't know what happened.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, missing-person, booyal-4671, qld, australia, bundaberg-4670, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA "mistake of youth" is how Tasmanian police are describing a 17-year-old's fatal fall from a high cliff at Blackmans Bay, south of Hobart, after attending a party nearby.
Topics: death, law-crime-and-justice, blackmans-bay-7052, richmond-7025
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he is dropping lawsuits seeking to buy out Native Hawaiians who own small pieces of land within his sprawling estate on the island of Kauai, promising instead to work with the community on "a new approach".
Topics: community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, house-and-home, hawaii, united-states
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| UpdatedThe white woman who testified black boy Emmitt Till had physically and verbally harassed her, resulting in the boy's brutal murder, has confessed she lied.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, rights, united-states
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| UpdatedSerious problems with Victoria's youth justice system were flagged with successive governments for more than a decade, and the recent dysfunction is the result of years of inaction, according to a former deputy Ombudsman.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, youth, state-parliament, government-and-politics, malmsbury-3446, vic, parkville-3052, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedWhile Indonesia may appear to be a unconcerned with rules, Adam Harvey tells of his slow realisation that the rules that really matter are the unspoken ones, such as not wearing jeans at certain locations.
Topics: laws, law-crime-and-justice, human-interest, indonesia
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| UpdatedA father who tortured and killed his newborn daughter in her home in Gympie in south-east Queensland is sentenced to nine years in jail.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, gympie-4570, qld, maroochydore-4558
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The High Court deals a blow to Labor's foray into the case of embattled former senator Bob Day, rejecting a bid to widen the scope of a case examining whether he breached the constitution.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedOne man was arrested at a West Papuan demonstration outside the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra today.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, pacific, canberra-2600
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A 14-year-old student forced to urinate in a bucket after being denied a toilet break wins more than $1.5 million in a lawsuit against a California school district.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, schools, united-states
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| UpdatedForty adult prison staff will move to secure the Malmsbury and Parkville youth centres, and another facility will be built, in the wake of 15 young offenders breaking out following a riot this week.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, youth, state-parliament, government-and-politics, malmsbury-3446, vic, parkville-3052, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedA former Trinity Grammar School teacher who sexually abused six boys in the 1970s and 80s is sentenced to 18 years and four months in prison, with a non-parole period of 11 years.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA man charged with murdering a mother and her two young children in Adelaide's north may not be mentally fit to instruct his legal team, his lawyer tells the Magistrate.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe family of a man killed by former fugitives Gino and Mark Stocco break down in a Sydney court as they describe the impact of the murder by the father and son, who were on the run from police for eight years.
Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, nsw, wagga-wagga-2650
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| UpdatedVictoria's court system is failing, leaving young offenders locked up on remand for months on end without telling them when they may be released, the state's former commissioner for children and young people says.
Topics: youth, community-and-society, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, vic, australia
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| UpdatedReal estate giant LJ Hooker says it is pleased two of its former agents will face court for allegedly misappropriating more than $2 million of customers' money.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, australia, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedIndonesia's Foreign Minister complains about the lack of action in Australia against a protester who broke into its Melbourne consulate earlier this month and to hold up the West Papua flag.
Topics: foreign-affairs, world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, indonesia
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| UpdatedA former Bandidos bikie who was feared dead after a bloody brawl outside a Gold Coast club has contacted police and is safe and well.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, missing-person, kirra-4225, qld, mermaid-beach-4218, brisbane-4000
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Beveley O'Connor speaks to Richard Tice of the Leave Means Leave group in Britain.
Topics: government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, united-kingdom, european-union
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A survivor of a police raid that killed four other drug suspects asks the Supreme Court to stop such operations and help him obtain police records to prove his innocence in a test case against the President's bloody crackdown.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-offences, drug-use, laws, rights, philippines, korea-republic-of
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Families are warned to be alert after an attempted abduction of a four-year-old boy from Perth's Kings Park, and an attack of two girls in a park in Baldivis, in the city's south.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, perth-6000, wa, baldivis-6171
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A lawyer for a jailed woman at the centre of a South Korean political scandal says prosecutors threatened to "annihilate" her family and used abusive language during questioning.
Topics: world-politics, corruption, law-crime-and-justice, korea-republic-of
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| UpdatedTwo men in Sydney are charged following the largest seizure of illegal abalone in 20 years.
Topics: illegal-fishing, law-crime-and-justice, fishing-aquaculture, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedPolice round up the last of the 15 teenagers who escaped from Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre after a 24-hour manhunt across Victoria.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, youth, colac-3250, malmsbury-3446, vic