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| UpdatedA man accused of attempting to extort $50,000 from a cafe manager threatened to "break his legs" if he did not pay up, a Brisbane court hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, qld, brisbane-4000, logan-central-4114
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| UpdatedSeven West chairman Kerry Stokes and director Jeff Kennett are criticised by a NSW Supreme Court judge for their public comments vilifying former employee Amber Harrison.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, business-economics-and-finance, company-news, media, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia's media has long had an appetite for crime figures. Now the story of "the mother of all crime gangs", Ellen Kelly, has been unearthed.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, books-literature, australia
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| UpdatedVolkswagen is accused of pressuring drivers to accept a software upgrade for vehicles implicated in the global emissions scandal, or face the possibility of no compensation.
Topics: consumer-protection, business-economics-and-finance, environment, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedHe's been on extended overseas holidays and cites medical conditions, now lawyers say they're fed up with former Queensland Nickel director Clive Mensink's "excuses" and want him to face questioning about the company's collapse.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, qld, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810
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Many Sydneysiders were shocked to hear about Egg the pug's alleged dognapping at knifepoint, but in a twist his owner has been charged with making a false report of armed robbery.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, homebush-2140
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| UpdatedMelbourne man Boris Trajkov, lauded for services to the Macedonian community, is charged with serious drugs offences and is being pursued over millions of dollars missing from a charity he helped found.
Topics: courts-and-trials, fraud-and-corporate-crime, drug-offences, charities, crime, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedUS Supreme Court justices appear split over the rights of a Mexican family to sue over the death of their teenage son, who was shot while on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border by a US Border Patrol officer standing on US soil.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, laws, immigration, united-states, mexico
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An Israeli court sentences a soldier to 18 months in prison for killing a Palestinian attacker who was lying injured on the ground, capping one of the most divisive trials in Israel's history.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, prisons-and-punishment, unrest-conflict-and-war, territorial-disputes, israel
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| UpdatedThe Fijian lawyer acting for an Iranian refugee who fled from Papua New Guinea to Fiji only to be deported by immigration officers, says the fight to help his client is by no means over.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, refugees, pacific, papua-new-guinea, fiji
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One of two men who bashed a kangaroo to death with a metal pole is jailed for almost a year, which is almost unheard of in Western Australia.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, animal-welfare, bunbury-6230, wa
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| UpdatedA royal commission will quiz senior government officials about the Commonwealth's response to a report into the sexual abuse of children in immigration detention centres.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, immigration, community-and-society, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedVictoria Police confirm human remains found at Mount Macedon on Monday are that of missing Avondale Heights woman Karen Ristevski.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, mount-macedon-3441, avondale-heights-3034
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Gordon Wood is suing the state of NSW for malicious prosecution and wrongful imprisonment over the death of Caroline Byrne, so what does he need to prove?
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, sydney-2000
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Police seize more than 70 illegal weapons including knuckle dusters, machetes and metal throwing stars in a series of raids targeting the Lone Wolf bikie gang at Lismore in northern New South Wales.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, lismore-3324, nsw
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The federal Attorney-General approves the prosecution launched against protesters who broke into top-secret military base, Pine Gap.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, defence-and-national-security, alice-springs-0870
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The death of a Cairns pensioner, who lived with a disability, is being treated as suspicious after his body was found in his bedroom up to three days after he died.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, mooroobool-4870, qld, cairns-4870
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A former school traffic warden will plead not guilty to more than 300 child sex offences, the Perth Magistrates Court is told.
Topics: child-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedPreventing sexual violence is everyone's responsibility, but we need to be careful about how we do it, writes Bianca Fileborn from UNSW.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, australia, vic, tas, qld, sa, nt, nsw, wa
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| UpdatedLawyers for Clive Palmer's nephew, former Queensland Nickel director Clive Mensink, say he is still overseas but they are not sure where, as he risks an arrest warrant being issued for missing cross-examination over the company's collapse.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, townsville-4810, qld
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| UpdatedThe circumstances surrounding the recent death of a fourth Adelaide cancer patient connected to an under-dosing of a chemotherapy drug, Carol Barinsfather, will be examined at an inquest.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, cancer, diseases-and-disorders, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedAdelaide man Simon Peisley is jailed and his wife given home detention after they concocted death threats, including packages with red-stained children's clothing, at their workplace, the Aboriginal Health Services division of SA Health.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, fraud-and-corporate-crime, courts-and-trials, prisons-and-punishment, adelaide-5000, sa
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Earlier this month two men allegedly stormed a Gordon home shooting a man and woman in the backside and arm.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, gordon-2906, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Human rights advocate Julian Burnside says systems of social support should lean more towards being "too generous" than "too mean", February 20, 2017.
Topics: federal-government, rights, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedProsecutors in Bali will today outline the punishment they want handed down to Byron Bay woman Sara Connor and her British boyfriend over the killing of a policeman. This is the case against them.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, bali, australia