Tragedy
Mother of Charlise’s alleged killer denies making up evidence to help son
Justin Stein’s mother insists she heard a “cheeky voice” in the background of a call that may have belonged to nine-year-old Charlise Mutten.
- by Sarah McPhee
Latest
‘Horrible accident’: Person dies in plane engine at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport
The investigation has not yet identified who the person was, a Dutch police spokesperson said.
- by Gianluca Lo Nostro
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Missing person
Phone found in fresh search for Samantha Murphy’s body
A police source, speaking anonymously owing to the sensitivity of the investigation, is confident the phone belonged to the 51-year-old mother.
- by Lachlan Abbott
‘Yelling and screaming’: Woman charged after man stabbed to death in eastern suburbs
The 31-year-old woman has been charged over the alleged domestic violence murder at a suburban home in Sydney’s east on Tuesday night.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
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Papua New Guinea
More than 7800 impacted by PNG landslide as bridge collapses on rescue route
Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the remote scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster.
- by David Rising
How WA’s new gun laws might have applied to the Floreat murderer
Mark Bombara was a law-abiding gun owner – right up until he wasn’t. New laws under debate cannot bring back lost loved ones, but may alter the ownership landscape.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Landslide
Australia to send aid to PNG after up to 2000 people buried alive in landslide
The death toll in Papua New Guinea is expected to rise following a catastrophic landslide that destroyed a village in remote Enga province.
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Road safety
Dashcam footage shows horror ride-share crash that left man, child dead
A father and his two young children were travelling in a ride-share car that turned into an oncoming Toyota Hilux, police say.
- by Jessica McSweeney and Angus Dalton
Several children killed after Indian amusement park inferno, police say
A major fire broke out on Saturday at an amusement park in Gujarat state in western India, killing at least 27 people, police and media reports said.
Every night, Jeremy Buckingham went to bed hoping his son was OK
The upper house member is hesitant to say he returned to politics in his son’s memory, but says the state’s inadequate mental health system was behind the decision.
- by Mary Ward
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Perth
Floreat mother and daughter murdered over friend’s marriage breakdown
Jennifer Petelczyc, 59, and her youngest daughter Gretl, 18, were senselessly murdered on Friday after becoming the unexpected victims in the marriage breakdown of a family friend which ended in a gunman storming their house.
- by Holly Thompson, Heather McNeill, Michael Stamp and Amber Wilkinson