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| UpdatedPeter Humphrey, who was arrested and held in a Shanghai detention centre for two years, details his "traumatic" experience behind bars and offers advice to the families of detained Crown Resorts staff.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, police, prisons-and-punishment, gambling, china
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| UpdatedCanberra has become attractive to bikies because it does not have the same anti-gang laws the rest of the eastern seaboard does, the ACT's top cop warns.
Topics: crime-prevention, crime, police, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedThe former driver of murdered Perth madam Shirley Finn reveals compelling new details about the brothel owner's relationship with then police minister Ray O'Connor as the cold case is thrust back into the spotlight after 40 years ahead of an inquest.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, murder-and-manslaughter, perth-6000
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| UpdatedGladys Berejiklian instructs government agencies to probe their handling of a case involving a woman police allege tried to drown her two sons in the Murray River, amid claims concerns about her behaviour were ignored.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, community-and-society, government-and-politics, family-and-children, moama-2731, nsw, vic
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Topics: terrorism, crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, unrest-conflict-and-war, young-2594, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedPolice in Canberra search for Craig Joseph Stevens, who ran from the ACT Supreme Court building during proceedings yesterday afternoon.
Topics: police, crime, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedNew South Wales Police find the body of a young boy in the Murray River near Moama, while the child's mother is remanded in custody on a charge of attempted murder.
Topics: police, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice
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| UpdatedA 32-year-old man is accused of stealing a car with a three-year-old boy asleep in the back from outside an East Victoria Park home, with the child later found safe in the dumped vehicle.
Topics: crime, police, east-victoria-park-6101, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedPolice are searching for a young boy missing at Moama, in southern NSW.
Topics: police, moama-2731
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| UpdatedPolice say a woman will be charged with the attempted murder of one of her sons in the Murray River town of Moama.
Topics: police, echuca-3564
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| UpdatedThe Human Services Minister has been referred to the Australian Federal Police, but what does this actually mean? ABC News political reporter Stephanie Anderson explains.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, law-crime-and-justice, police, australia
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| UpdatedThe Governor of Papua New Guinea's Hela province has appealed for Australian Federal Police to help end the lawlessness in the province, which he says has reached crisis point.
Topics: police, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedA nine-year-old boy is in hospital and police are continuing a search for his five-year-old brother who is feared drowned in the Murray River.
Topics: police, moama-2731
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| UpdatedA man is arrested over Wednesday night's fatal squatters fire at a former factory in Melbourne's inner west, in which the bodies of three people were found.
Topics: fires, police, arson, homelessness, footscray-3011
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| UpdatedLabor MP Linda Burney asks the Australian Federal Police to determine whether Human Services Minister Alan Tudge broke the law by disclosing a welfare recipient's personal information to a journalist.
Topics: welfare, community-and-society, police, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedA decorated ex-Army sergeant has been told to 'rot in hell' after being jailed in Newcastle for a 2014 stabbing murder.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, police, windale-2306, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedA Hong Kong man caught with more than 300 kilograms of methylamphetamine — the largest seizure of the drug in Western Australia — will have to spend at least 18 years behind bars.
Topics: drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, courts-and-trials, police, perth-6000, wa, canning-vale-6155, south-hedland-6722
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Tasmanians are now able to report crime at the click of a button after the launch of a local Crime Stoppers website, with the potential for video to be uploaded down the track.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, tas
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| UpdatedAugusta police are investigating the random shooting of a three-week-old calf in WA's south-west.
Topics: police, animal-welfare, livestock-welfare, scott-river-6288, albany-6330
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The body of a man who disappeared while kayaking on the Murchison River in Western Australia's Mid West is found about six kilometres west of where he capsized.
Topics: death, missing-person, police, ajana-6532, kalbarri-6536
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| UpdatedA man is killed after being struck with a metal beam on a New South Wales Government construction site at Barangaroo, near Sydney's Darling Harbour.
Topics: workplace, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, work, death, police, millers-point-2000, sydney-2000
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Sicen Sun, 27, was arrested and charged with various offences relating to the manufacture of firearms using a 3D printer. after detectives searched his Waverley unit in Sydney's east.
Topics: courts-and-trials, police, computers-and-technology, waverley-2024
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| UpdatedPerth barrister Lloyd Rayney suffered a "dreadful stain on his reputation" after being named as a suspect in his wife's death, the WA Supreme Court is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, police, perth-6000, kings-park-6005, como-6152
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| UpdatedThe murder of court registrar Corryn Rayney was one of the biggest legal cases ever heard in Perth, both in the scope of its criminal investigation, and the closeness of the media coverage.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, police, perth-6000, wa