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Darwin police lacked clear objectives and resolution strategies to deal with an ice-fuelled group crime spree and subsequent car crash that killed a teenager in 2015, a coronial inquest hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, darwin-0800
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The Kimberley District police superintendent says the status quo of record rates of alcohol-fuelled violence and self-harm cannot continue.
Topics: alcohol, police, broome-6725, derby-6728
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| UpdatedNT Police find the body of an elderly German man at Trephina Gorge during the search for two missing tourists
Topics: missing-person, police, alice-springs-0870
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A man, suffering an undiagnosed mental illness at a time of a hit-and-run crash, is sentenced to four years jail.
Topics: crime, accidents, courts-and-trials, police, morisset-2264, wyong-2259
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| UpdatedAmnesty International has rejected Fiji government claims that they failed to contact the Director of Public Prosecutions before writing their recent report on the use of torture by the country's security forces.
Topics: police, government-and-politics, pacific, fiji
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| UpdatedThere is increasing concern for two elderly German tourists missing in searing heat in Central Australia, with one of them believed to be without important medication.
Topics: missing-person, police, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedMost of the small community of Uarbry has been wiped out by a bushfire burning near Dunedoo, residents say, with some of the destroyed homes belonging to volunteer firefighters who were out combating the blaze.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-incidents, crime, police, nsw, boggabri-2382, coffs-harbour-2450, dunedoo-2844, leadville-2844, south-kempsey-2440, mudgee-2850, dubbo-2830, beechwood-2446, tamworth-2340, gunnedah-2380, port-macquarie-2444
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A 35-year-old motorbike rider is airlifted to Westmead Hospital in a critical condition after a high-speed, single-vehicle crash at a race track in western Sydney.
Topics: police, community-and-society, eastern-creek-2766
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Michael Gunner rejects calls to prohibit police from use tasers against children, saying officers should not be held back from carrying out their duty.
Topics: police, children, crime, courts-and-trials, youth, palmerston-0830
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| UpdatedAuthorities are searching for a couple aged in their 70s after a car they hired is found in a carpark at Trephina Gorge, about 85 kilometres east of Alice Springs
Topics: missing-person, national-parks, police, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedAs Victoria's Police Commissioner during Black Saturday, Christine Nixon says she never tried to avoid the public scrutiny that came her way after a scathing assessment of her leadership on that fateful day.
Topics: bushfire, police, community-and-society, vic
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| UpdatedThe use of Tasers on children should be eliminated, the National Children's Commissioner has said, after seeing footage obtained by the ABC that shows an unarmed 12-year-old boy tasered by Northern Territory Police.
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| UpdatedThe use of tasers on children should be eliminated, the National Children's Commissioner says, after seeing footage obtained by the ABC that shows an unarmed 12-year-old boy tasered by Northern Territory Police.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, police, community-and-society, children, nt
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| UpdatedA European backpacker, who police feared was being held against her will in South Australia's Murraylands region, is found safe in Murray Bridge.
Topics: missing-person, police, murray-bridge-5253, meningie-5264, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedPolice hold serious concerns for a missing European tourist who they suspect may be in South Australia's Murraylands region.
Topics: missing-person, police, murray-bridge-5253, adelaide-5000, sa
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Tasmania's youths are less likely to commit a crime today than they were in 2008, official figures show.
Topics: crime, police, youth, population-and-demographics, hobart-7000, tas
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A man who threw a police officer through a glass window during an arrest was "doomed to fail" from birth, his lawyer says, as a judge sentences him to five years in prison.
Topics: courts-and-trials, police, assault, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, qld
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A Wilcannia man acquitted of assaulting a police officer successfully appeals all remaining charges stemming from an altercation at the town's golf club.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, wilcannia-2836
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| UpdatedA Queensland Police Service senior constable is fined $1,500 over an incident in which he pulled a gun on a couple for allegedly speeding along an outback highway near Longreach.
Topics: police, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, longreach-4730, qld, australia
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| UpdatedThe crown prosecutor asks a judge to hand Robert Xie, who bludgeoned five members of his family to death, a life sentence for each of the murders.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, police, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA young teenage driver dies after a police chase that lasted for about 50 kilometres ended in a crash with a B-double truck on the New South Wales mid-north coast.
Topics: road, police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, traffic-offences, macksville-2447
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to political scientist Richard Heydarian of the Philippines' De La Salle University on the latest outburst by the president.
Topics: government-and-politics, police, philippines
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| UpdatedA police officer thought her colleague was going to be killed when he was punched and thrown through a window while trying to arrest a man at Capalaba, a court hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, assault, police, capalaba-4157, qld
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Thai police charge an Australian man over a jet ski collision in Phuket that killed his 20-year-old girlfriend.
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| UpdatedMore than 1,000 Victorian police workers have sought help from the force's support services since Melbourne's Bourke Street rampage last month, a top cop has revealed.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, mental-health, melbourne-3000, vic