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Four people, including teenager, found dead in Broadmeadows home

Four people, including teenager, found dead in Broadmeadows home

Four people, including a teenage boy, have been found dead in a home north of Melbourne in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

  • by David Estcourt

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‘A lovely little girl’: Nine-year-old Charlise Mutten’s fateful Christmas holiday

‘A lovely little girl’: Nine-year-old Charlise Mutten’s fateful Christmas holiday

Charlise Mutten’s grandparents put her on a plane to visit her mother Kallista Mutten and her mother’s fiance Justin Stein for Christmas. She never came home.

  • by Sarah McPhee and The Visual Stories Team
Victim of alleged road rage dragged 100 metres down Sydney road
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Victim of alleged road rage dragged 100 metres down Sydney road

CCTV shows the victim of the alleged road rage incident being dragged down the road. Police are appealing for the driver of a white ute to hand himself in.

  • by Jessica McSweeney and Catherine Naylor
Defence attempts to restrict independent inquiry into helicopter crash deaths

Defence attempts to restrict independent inquiry into helicopter crash deaths

The Australian military has made a submission seeking to severely curtail an independent inquiry’s ability to investigate a fatal Taipan helicopter crash last year.

  • by Andrew Probyn
The murder tragedy that struck fatal house fire victims decades earlier

The murder tragedy that struck fatal house fire victims decades earlier

The mother and son killed in a house fire south of Brisbane had endured tragedy decades before their deaths.

  • by Marissa Calligeros
The Sydney suburbs with the most murders, victims and alleged killers
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The Sydney suburbs with the most murders, victims and alleged killers

Sydney’s murder maps reveal where killings took place and where the alleged killers live. Use our interactive tool to explore the homicidal history of the city’s postcodes.

  • by Sally Rawsthorne, Heath Gilmore and Nigel Gladstone
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Barrister Arthur Moses joins investigation into paratrooper’s death
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Barrister Arthur Moses joins investigation into paratrooper’s death

Leading Sydney silk Arthur Moses has joined the probe into the death of special forces soldier Jack Fitzgibbon, son of former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon.

  • by Deborah Snow
Webb tested again: two police officers charged with assault of 92-year-old man

Webb tested again: two police officers charged with assault of 92-year-old man

Police Commissioner Karen Webb has to deal with more allegations of police officers inappropriately using force after an elderly man was hospitalised with a fractured arm.

  • by Sally Rawsthorne and Jessica McSweeney
Jail for hit-run philanthropist who killed boys during ‘deadly game of chase’

Jail for hit-run philanthropist who killed boys during ‘deadly game of chase’

Witnesses said Rebecca Grossman appeared to be racing another luxury SUV being driven by her then-boyfriend when she crashed into two brothers at high speed, killing them.

  • by Michael Levenson
Friends killed in WA crash were ‘backbone of their community’

Friends killed in WA crash were ‘backbone of their community’

Thelma Clausen and Coral Seinor from Jurien Bay were killed last Friday in a car crash – over which former Collingwood AFL player Shannon Cox has been arrested.

  • by Rebecca Peppiatt
‘Don’t do it alone’: What Mosley learnt pushing his body to the limit in 2019

‘Don’t do it alone’: What Mosley learnt pushing his body to the limit in 2019

Michael Mosley was no stranger to taking risks – usually on television, for the noble cause of enabling people to live better, healthier lives.

  • by Abigail Buchanan