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A drug trafficker is awarded $100,000 in compensation after he says his diabetes worsened while in prison, but crime victims and lawyers might get all of that money.
Topics: government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA man is charged with attempted murder, and four others are charged with drug offences, following police raids in Melbourne over an alleged international drug trafficking syndicate.
Topics: drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, st-albans-3021, vic, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedTennis Australia is hoping to set up a Crimestoppers-style hotline within the next few weeks for athletes allegedly abused by coaches and others who have control over them, the ABC has learned.
Topics: tennis, royal-commissions, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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A woman who killed her abusive husband in Western Australia's Mid West is set to be released from prison within days after her parole was approved.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, wa, geraldton-6530
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Truck driver Kenneth Pillar, found guilty of causing a head-on fatal crash, appears to collapse in the dock after being charged with breaching fatigue management policies.
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Police in Papua New Guinea appeal for help to capture Joshua Kaluvia, one of the killers of Iranian asylum seeker Reza Barati, after he escaped from jail for a second time.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, crime, refugees, immigration, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedFormer Adelaide real estate agent David Parkinson, who stole $1.8 million from his clients, is labelled "cold-hearted" and "manipulative" by his victims during a pre-sentencing hearing.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, adelaide-5000, mount-gambier-5290, sa
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A man who was allegedly armed and on the run after the discovery of a drug laboratory in Melbourne's north-west surrenders to police.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, st-albans-3021, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedAn 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.
Topics: black-deaths-in-custody, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, canberra-2600, act, australia
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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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| UpdatedIf 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.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, gilles-plains-5086, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedFrom 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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| UpdatedTroubled 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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