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| UpdatedTwo teenage brothers from Canberra remain behind bars over an alleged social media blackmail scam that police say lured in victims on Grindr and Facebook.
Topics: social-media, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedSexual abuse in Australia's Catholic schools didn't come from nowhere. It took hold in systems where violence was not just condoned, but encouraged.
Topics: catholic, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, sexual-offences, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedA man accused of killing remote outback nurse Gayle Woodford in South Australia's APY Lands pleads guilty in the Port Augusta Magistrates Court.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, fregon-872, port-augusta-5700, sa
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Eileen Piper has spent more than two decades waiting for the Melbourne Archdiocese to accept one of its priests abused her only daughter, Stephanie, who later committed suicide.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, catholic, sexual-offences, australia
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| UpdatedA court hears there will be unprecedented jury pooling arrangements for what could be one of Australia's biggest alleged malpractice court cases involving a Newcastle doctor.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, doctors-and-medical-professionals, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300
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While relationships between prison inmates and psychologists are rare, one expert says even highly trained therapists are not immune to bias and potential manipulation.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, mental-health, psychology, health, human-interest, sydney-2000
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A Canberra man who grabbed his partner by the throat and choked her three years ago is resentenced and handed more jail time, after an error was made during the original sentencing.
Topics: assault, crime, law-crime-and-justice, calwell-2905, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedCatholic Archbishops fronting the royal commission into child sex abuse admit the Church's response was a failure in leadership and culture, asking "what can possibly have gone wrong" to have led to so many offences. See how their first day of testimony unfolded in our blog.
Topics: catholic, community-and-society, child-abuse, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAllison Baden-Clay's former husband Gerard Baden-Clay will not get any of her money and her father Geoff Dickie has been made executor of her estate, the Supreme Court rules.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, brisbane-4000, qld
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A Tasmanian man convicted over one of the state's largest ever drug busts, during which police seized cannabis with an estimated street value of $2.3 million, is sentenced to more than three years in jail.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, burnie-7320, tas
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A man facing serious assault charges is on the run from police after the courts allowed him to attend the Mundine-Green boxing match at Adelaide Oval despite his strict bail conditions, the Corrections Minister says.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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Lawyers have finalised an $8 million compensation payout for landholders affected by the 2014 Jack River bushfire in Gippsland.
Topics: fires, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, yarram-3971, vic
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Around 10 Australian couples are left in legal limbo in Cambodia — unable to bring surrogate babies home months after their birth — as they wait for the Government in Phnom Penh to draft new laws on surrogacy.
Topics: parenting, babies, fertility-and-infertility, law-crime-and-justice, cambodia, australia
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A young woman was thrown 80 metres when she was hit and killed by a speeding drunk driver, travelling at 152 kilometres per hour through a pedestrian crossing against a red light in West Melbourne last July, a court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, west-melbourne-3003, melbourne-3000, new-zealand, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA man who allegedly pretended to be a police officer to pull over his stepdaughter before blindfolding her, driving her to a deserted bush area and stripping her naked and photographing her is refused bail.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, collie-6225, wa
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A union questions how psychological testing of current child protection workers in South Australia will be done and what will happen to any staff who fail.
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, children, family-and-children, child-abuse, community-and-society, child-health-and-behaviour, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedMalaysian police say they are now seeking a North Korean diplomat in connection with the fatal attack on Kim Jong-nam, as they release more details about the murder.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, police, malaysia, korea-republic-of
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Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang is sentenced to 20 months in prison for misconduct after failing to disclose plans to rent a luxury apartment for his retirement from a businessman applying for a broadcasting licence.
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, hong-kong, pacific, asia, china
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South Australian cancer patients who were given incorrect frequencies in doses of a chemotherapy drug may have had their treatment outcomes compromised, a haematology expert tells a coronial inquest.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, healthcare-facilities, health, cancer, adelaide-5000, sa
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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