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An inquest into the death in custody of Indigenous man Steven Freeman hears he took a toxic level of methadone, which was given to him inside prison despite a lack of evidence he was addicted to opioids.
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| UpdatedWith thousands of new students starting university this week, an advocacy group claims violence against women is rife on Australian campuses, and there is a culture of covering up claims.
Topics: university-and-further-education, sexual-offences, crime-prevention, law-crime-and-justice, education, sydney-2000, the-university-of-sydney-2006, nsw, australia
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If you get scammed online it is likely you will never hear from police, let alone see justice done to the culprits, according to the head of Australia and New Zealand's cybercrime helpline.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, fraud-and-corporate-crime, computers-and-technology, australia
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An Adelaide man was stabbed in the neck and killed by his brother after intervening in a domestic violence incident, a Supreme Court trial is told.
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From love bombing and ether states, these are the emotional traps scammers are using against us.
Topics: crime, crime-prevention, law-crime-and-justice, fraud-and-corporate-crime, computers-and-technology, australia
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| UpdatedGordon Wood was paranoid police would try to "stitch him up again" after he was acquitted of murdering his former girlfriend Caroline Byrne, the Supreme Court is told.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, suicide, sydney-2000, nsw
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Troubled law firm Slater and Gordon admits it is effectively broke and operating at the mercy of its lenders.
Topics: company-news, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedFormer Bandido bikie Lionel Patea pleads guilty to murder after running his ex-partner's car off the road and bashing her with a metal plate while she was trapped in the wreckage.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, domestic-violence, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, molendinar-4214, southport-4215
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| UpdatedManingrida is a remote community living with heartbreak and shame, as the Department of Territory Families continues to remove Aboriginal children at a rate almost 10 times higher than non-Indigenous children.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, stolen-generations, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, maningrida-0822
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| UpdatedPolice search for an armed man who is believed to have shot at officers as they attempted to execute a search warrant targeting international drug traffickers in Melbourne's north-west.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, st-albans-3021, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThe dose of nerve agent given to North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un's exiled half brother was so high that it killed him within 20 minutes and caused "very serious paralysis", Malaysia's Health Minister says.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, world-politics, malaysia, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, asia
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| UpdatedA mother tells her story about raising a baby inside Victoria's Tarrengower Prison, where the other inmates are the child's immediate family, if only temporarily.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, family, family-and-children, community-and-society, babies, drug-offences, crime, maldon-3463
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| UpdatedAs thousands march in Moscow to remember assassinated opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, the criminalisation of street protests and action against the President's political opponents show speaking out against the Kremlin is even harder than ever.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, activism-and-lobbying, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, russian-federation
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| UpdatedA 25-year-old man accused of ploughing a pickup truck into a crowd of spectators at a mardi gras parade in New Orleans has been arrested and charged with injuring 28 people, authorities say.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, united-states
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| UpdatedCambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal drops its case against a suspect accused of killing thousands of people at torture centres and slave labour camps during the country's tragic agrarian revolution, in which an estimated 2 million people were killed.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, unrest-conflict-and-war, cambodia, asia
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| UpdatedAustralia rugby union international James O'Connor is arrested in Paris on suspicion of attempting to buy cocaine.
Topics: rugby-union, super-rugby, sport, law-crime-and-justice, france, australia
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| UpdatedAn Indonesian woman detained in Malaysia in connection with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam says she was paid about $120 to take part in what she thought was a prank television show.
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| UpdatedThe entire RSL NSW council is stood aside from their positions while an investigation over several alleged financial scandals takes place.
Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedBeverley O'Connor speaks to North Korea expert and Australian National University researcher Dr Leonid Petrov about the killing of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, korea-democratic-people-s-republic-of, malaysia