news, national Security at Western Australia’s quarantine hotels will be bolstered after a review sparked by the escape of a woman who failed to complete 14 days in supervised isolation. Acting Premier and Health Minister Roger Cook says the review’s three recommendations will ensure the continued intregrity of a system which has already catered for
The year 2000 is remembered mostly for Sydney’s hosting of the Olympics in an atmosphere of relative peace and harmony. This was the last year before the term “war on terror” would become entwined in virtually every government decision as a result of the 11 September 2001 al-Qaida attacks on the United States, according to
Dark net crime surges during COVID-19 Daily Telegraph Source link
FROM horrific domestic violence deaths and terrorism, to coronavirus controversies and prominent lawyers being charged, a number of high-profile crime events took place in Queensland in 2020. Despite the COVID-19 lockdown this year, there was a myriad of cases for already-stretched law enforcement. These were some of the events this year. HANNAH CLARKE February
The 1945 murder of Giuseppe “Fat Joe” Versace was horrific. His stomach was cut open. He was stabbed in the face, neck and torso. In all, the medical examiner found 91 knife wounds — some inflicted after his death. Presented to police at the time as the result of an argument over a woman, researchers
South Brisbane police are seeking urgent assistance from the community to help locate a 58-year-old man reported missing this afternoon. Tama Edwards was last seen leaving a facility on Cornwall Street before 6.30pm this evening, heading towards Ipswich Road. Police and family hold serious concerns for his welfare, due to a medical condition. Tama may
MISBEHAVIOURCinemas now ****When it comes to cinema, women and their stories more generally have far too long a history of being buried away from public view, hidden and denied. This has a cumulative effect of implying that they simply do not matter; certainly not as much as stories about men. Philippa Lowthorpe’s new film Misbehaviour
Top defence brass unduly keen on the ‘few bad apples’ theory The Australian Source link
Claire G. Coleman will publish Enclave in October.Credit:Joe Armao After writing memoirs and a young adult novel, Alice Pung turns her hand to adult fiction with One Hundred Days (June, Black Inc.) about a teen whose mother confines her to their housing commission flat for 100 days. In Jesustown (August, A&U), Paul Daley follows a
A former Commonwealth director of public prosecutions and federal court judge has been appointed as a special investigator to pursue allegations of war crimes committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. Key points: Mark Weinberg QC will be the special investigator for the war crimes inquiry The current secretary of the Attorney-General’s department, Chris Moraitis, will
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