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| UpdatedA potentially lethal drug that can "bring down elephants" and is 10,000 times more potent than morphine is discovered at a Brisbane mail centre, sparking urgent police warnings.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, drug-use, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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A woman is charged with the murder of a mother whose body was found on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula more than six months after she was reported missing.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, sorrento-3943, vic
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A high-ranking police officer in WA's Pilbara says Australians have a "militant" response to the prospect of alcohol restrictions.
Topics: crime, police, karratha-6714
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| UpdatedIt will likely be 18 months before the man accused of the deadly Bourke Street rampage faces a Supreme Court trial, with prosecutors telling the court there are more than 1,000 witnesses.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedPolice missed multiple opportunities to prevent Liam Humbles, who was believed to have been in possession of a gun and selling drugs at a high school, from killing teenager Lewis McPherson, a South Australian coroner says.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, warradale-5046, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedA 54-year-old man appears in court accused of trying to kill a woman with a claw hammer in far west New South Wales.
Topics: crime-prevention, crime, law-crime-and-justice, broken-hill-2880
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| UpdatedA former Bairnsdale dentist is expected to face deportation after being jailed for a crash that killed an off-duty police officer.
Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, police, morwell-3840, lindenow-south-3875
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| UpdatedA man is charged with murder following the discovery of another man's body at Goodwood, in Adelaide's inner south.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, goodwood-5034, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA Bendigo man admits to corruptly paying a former Ballarat council worker thousands of dollars in exchange for employment contracts.
Topics: corruption, crime, fraud-and-corporate-crime, ballarat-3350, north-bendigo-3550, bendigo-3550, ballarat-north-3350, ballarat-west-3350
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Two men accused of killing another man after one held him in headlock are acquitted of murder, with an Adelaide judge deciding they did not intend harm.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, woodville-5011, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedHollywood actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher tells a US Senate committee about the children his anti-trafficking organisation has rescued, saying "I've seen things no person should ever see".
Topics: actor, arts-and-entertainment, human-trafficking, law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, crime, child-abuse, united-states
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| UpdatedMalaysian police detain the boyfriend of a second woman arrested over the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, world-politics, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, korea-republic-of, malaysia
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Two police officers are charged over an alleged assault on a female former police officer in custody at the Ballarat police station two years ago.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, ballarat-3350, vic
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| UpdatedRicky Ciano, who survived an attempt on his life and subsequently relocated to Queensland, is found dead in a car in the NSW Central Tablelands, the ABC understands, with a friend saying he "ran out of places to hide".
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, death, police, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
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ACT police investigate a fire that destroyed a residential unit in Waramanga and caused smoke damage to a neighbouring unit.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, fires, waramanga-2611, act
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Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, arson, crime, law-crime-and-justice, waramanga-2611, act, australia, canberra-2600
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Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, crime, police, law-crime-and-justice, waramanga-2611, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedA Melbourne taxi driver caught doing 144 kilometres an hour in an 80kph zone told police he was speeding because he had to get to a job, police allege.
Topics: crime, oaklands-junction-3063, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedAustralian entertainer Rolf Harris will be retried in relation to charges of indecent assault after the jury could not reach an agreement regarding three allegations.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, england, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedMalaysian authorities arrest a woman with Vietnamese travel papers over the suspected assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, unrest-conflict-and-war, world-politics, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of
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As the Northern Territory grapples with an increase in property crime, particularly involving young perpetrators, the Government announces it will seek to pass legislation on urgency so GPS tracking ankle bracelets can be used to reduce crime.
Topics: crime, crime-prevention, police, youth, nt
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Olympic swimming champion Grant Hackett has struggled to adjust to life in retirement like many other sportspeople, writes Mary Gearin.
Topics: sport, olympics-summer, law-crime-and-justice, police, crime, mermaid-waters-4218
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| UpdatedTwo men and a woman are charged over an alleged drug syndicate operating out of mail distribution centres, as well as supplying cocaine to Darwin.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedA Hobart jury takes less than two hours to find Klaus Dieter Neubert, 74, guilty of murdering his estranged wife Olga as she sat in a car on a busy Hobart road.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, new-town-7008