Natasha Robinson

• Concerns elderly abuse flourishing because of safeguard delays

  By the National Reporting Team's Natasha Robinson

  Posted January 25, 2017 13:03:24 | Updated January 25, 2017 16:23:33

  There are concerns that exploitation and abuse of older people is being allowed to flourish in NSW because the state is delaying introducing safeguards to protect the rights of the elderly.

  Topics: older-people, health, aged-care, community-and-society, health-policy, government-and-politics, sydney-2000, nsw, australia

• Church stripped of charitable status after raising funds for anti-Islam party

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  By Natasha Robinson

  Posted January 17, 2017 19:06:25 | Updated January 17, 2017 20:53:39

  Controversial Melbourne evangelical church Catch the Fire, which solicits donations for the Rise Up Australia Party, has its charitable status revoked by authorities.

  Topics: religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, political-parties, melbourne-3000, vic

• Boxing program delivers knockout blow against crime

  By Natasha Robinson

  Posted December 22, 2016 13:45:46 | Updated December 23, 2016 17:27:04

  Indigenous women are pulling on gloves as mentors for a Redfern group using sport to drop the Sydney suburb's troubled reputation to the canvas.

  Topics: boxing, community-and-society, sport, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, health, crime-prevention, redfern-2016

• 'Unlawful conduct' by NSW Police's Catherine Burn says report

  By Natasha Robinson and Lucy McNally

  Posted December 20, 2016 14:48:19 | Updated December 20, 2016 20:04:52

  The report into the "largest investigation every undertaken" by an Australian ombudsman has been released, and Deputy Police Commissioner Catherine Burn and former colleague Nick Kaldas are very much in the frame.

  Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000, nsw

• Police bugging report to be released, despite ex top cop's court bid

  By Natasha Robinson

  Posted December 20, 2016 11:00:40 | Updated December 20, 2016 19:51:54

  Former NSW deputy police commissioner Nick Kaldas loses a bid to prevent the release of a report into a police bugging during what the state ombudsman describes as "a troubled era".

  Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000, nsw

• Key suspect in deaths of Bowraville children likely to be charged

  By Natasha Robinson

  Posted December 15, 2016 18:30:26 | Updated December 15, 2016 18:51:12

  A man long suspected of killing Evelyn Greenup and Clinton Speedy-Duroux at an Aboriginal mission in the early 1990s is back in the sights of authorities, years after being acquitted at separate murder trials.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, police, bowraville-2449

• ICAC told to apologise for 'bleedingly unnecessary' privacy invasion

  By Natasha Robinson

  Posted December 14, 2016 16:47:28 | Updated December 14, 2016 20:38:53

  NSW's corruption commission should apologise for its "bleedingly unnecessary" intrusion into the privacy of a former SES employee, the acting inspector who oversees the commission says.

  Topics: corruption, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, parliament, state-parliament, states-and-territories, sydney-2000, nsw

• Wife of IS recruiter may be first charged under disrespectful behaviour laws

  By Natasha Robinson

  Posted December 09, 2016 15:46:53 | Updated December 10, 2016 00:09:50

  A Muslim woman's refusal to stand for a judge — because Muslim law prohibits her from standing for anyone "apart from Allah" — may be the first test of tough new NSW legislation that makes it an offence to disrespect a court.

  Topics: islam, courts-and-trials, laws, terrorism, sydney-2000

• Trump's protectionist message appeals to working-class women Analysis

  By Natasha Robinson

  Posted November 12, 2016 06:34:07 | Updated November 12, 2016 15:28:47

  Donald Trump's victory in the United States election was a salutary warning to political parties around the world to ignore the working class at your peril.

  Topics: us-elections, world-politics, women, united-states, penrith-2750, ballarat-3350, australia

• Narrabri landowners' appeal of Santos water treatment facility begins

  By Natasha Robinson

  Posted November 01, 2016 14:23:49

  The Environmental Defenders Office hopes an appeal from north-west NSW landowners of a controversial water treatment facility will bring "clarity and certainty" to what is coal seam gas exploration.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000, narrabri-2390

• Bart Cummings' children in fight over multi-million-dollar estate

  By Natasha Robinson

  Posted October 28, 2016 11:15:41 | Updated October 28, 2016 13:04:05

  The family of the late racehorse trainer Bart Cummings are pitted against one another in a court battle over the racing mogul's estate.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, death, family, horse-racing, sport, sydney-2000, nsw, australia

• Australian artist who works as cleaner wins $150k art prize

  By Natasha Robinson and Raveen Hunjan

  Posted October 26, 2016 12:11:17 | Updated October 26, 2016 17:51:33

  Australian artist Megan Seres's painting of her daughter Scarlett wins the richest portraiture prize in the world — The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize.

  Topics: visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, sydney-2000

• 'Mates protecting mates': Claims of police aggression and cover-ups

  By the National Reporting Team's Natasha Robinson

  Posted October 23, 2016 12:57:36 | Updated October 23, 2016 18:05:42

  A culture of aggressive policing, cover-up and intimidation is infecting some NSW Police local area commands and driving officers to break their oath of duty, with one former officer claiming she was pressured to lie in court after witnessing a "heavy-handed" arrest.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, police, corruption, queanbeyan-2620, nsw

• Indigenous legal support hotline to be rolled out nationally

  By the national reporting team's Natasha Robinson and political reporter Anna Henderson

  Posted October 21, 2016 14:38:22 | Updated October 21, 2016 17:17:02

  A telephone hotline, credited with saving the lives of Aboriginal people in custody in NSW will be rolled out nationally, Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion says.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, law-crime-and-justice, australia, nsw

• Bob Day promises to begin paying debt to subcontractor using charity funds

  By Natasha Robinson

  Posted October 20, 2016 17:40:19 | Updated October 21, 2016 08:07:44

  Family First senator Bob Day has moved to pay the first of his large debts after a subcontractor begged the failed businessman to settle an $8,500 invoice, saying he will use the money raised by an online fundraising page.

  Topics: government-and-politics, parliament, federal-parliament, nsw, adelaide-5000, sa

• Fundraising page set up to save Bob Day from bankruptcy

  By Natasha Robinson

  Posted October 19, 2016 15:30:59 | Updated October 19, 2016 18:17:26

  Supporters of senator Bob Day donate funds to save the failed South Australian businessman from bankruptcy, in a move described by one home owner as a "complete slap in the face".

  Topics: federal-parliament, parliament, federal-government, government-and-politics, sa, adelaide-5000, nsw, sydney-2000

• 'We're stressed to the maximum': NSW Home Australia customers deal with liquidation

  By Natasha Robinson

  Posted October 18, 2016 15:48:43 | Updated October 18, 2016 22:20:48

  Customers of the New South Wales subsidiary of federal senator Bob Day's collapsed building company Home Australia, say they suspect the building empire was in financial trouble for months before its demise.

  Topics: building-and-construction, industry, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, housing, federal-government, nsw, australia

• Indigenous-led suicide plan needed to fight Aboriginal deaths, report says

  By the National Reporting Team's Natasha Robinson

  Posted October 12, 2016 06:23:24 | Updated October 12, 2016 09:39:21

  A major report calls for Indigenous health services to become the primary providers of mental health care for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people in the face of record suicide levels in remote Australia.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, suicide, mental-health, youth, australia, wa

• Government roundtable on Indigenous suicide to be held in Kimberley

  By Natasha Robinson and Cushla Travers

  Posted October 03, 2016 09:24:58

  The Federal Government is set to hold a high-level roundtable on Indigenous suicide in the West Australian Kimberley region as suicide rates continue to escalate.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, suicide, wa

• War crime victims fearful of providing testimony to Sri Lanka court

  PM

  By the National Reporting Team's Natasha Robinson

  Posted August 25, 2016 19:12:17 | Updated August 25, 2016 20:08:57

  Civilians who fled to Australia during the Sri Lankan civil war may never have their crucial testimonies heard in a war crimes court.

  Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, international-law, law-crime-and-justice, human, australia

• Backpacker sues NSW Police accusing force of cover-up over alleged bashing

  By the National Reporting Team's Natasha Robinson

  Posted August 24, 2016 14:51:37

  A backpacker who was allegedly the victim of a serious assault is suing NSW Police accusing the force of an institutional cover-up over the failure to investigate or discipline an off-duty officer involved.

  Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, assault, courts-and-trials, sydney-2000, nsw, australia

• Probe launched into Sudanese refugee's wrongful murder conviction

  By the National Reporting Team's Natasha Robinson

  Posted August 18, 2016 13:49:35 | Updated August 18, 2016 17:37:25

  The NSW DPP is investigating the wrongful conviction of a Sudanese refugee, jailed for seven years after a police informant told investigators the teen confessed to the murder of Edward Spowart (pictured).

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, granville-2142, sydney-2000

• Assassination and war crimes: A dream of reconciliation for Sri Lanka

  Lateline

  By the National Reporting Team's Natasha Robinson

  Posted August 12, 2016 18:56:04

  As Sri Lanka takes firm but slow steps towards ethnic and national reconciliation, there's a local effort underway in Australia.

  Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, community-and-society, sri-lanka, sydney-2000, nsw, australia

• Treatment of intellectually disabled prisoner in NT referred to UN

  By the National Reporting Team's Natasha Robinson and Alison Branley

  Posted August 03, 2016 06:08:04 | Updated August 03, 2016 06:36:58

  The United Nations Human Rights Council is being asked to investigate the case of a man with intellectual disabilities who has been repeatedly restrained and sedated in an NT prison since 2012.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, youth, prisons-and-punishment, disabilities, human, nt, alice-springs-0870

• Judge denies bid to extend terrorism suspect's sentence

  By the National Reporting Team's Natasha Robinson

  Posted July 22, 2016 12:30:02

  Prosecutors fail in a bid to extend the minimum sentence of a terrorism suspect who breached a control order.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, terrorism, united-states

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