A man was stabbed repeatedly outside the Oxford Hotel on Sydney’s iconic Oxford Street around 7.10am this morning, police say. It comes just hours after marchers celebrated the Sydney Mardi Gras along the same stretch of road. However, NSW police confirmed to news.com.au the incident “had nothing to do with Mardi gras.” “We believe it
Crime-fighting dividends in decriminalising cannabis The Australian Source link
Sarah Ferguson spends her working life wading through murky waters, tackling difficult, confronting and harrowing stories but none has tested her like the project that consumed her for the past year: Revelation — a three-part documentary investigation into child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, in which she comes face to face with two of
Sarah Ferguson spends her working life wading through murky waters, tackling difficult, confronting and harrowing stories but none has tested her like the project that consumed her for the past year: Revelation — a three-part documentary investigation into child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, in which she comes face to face with two of
Stop complaining and start fighting the online mob The Australian Source link
Paediatricians and human rights lawyers have called on the Australian government to urgently raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 to end the abuse of children in custody. The Royal Australian College of Physicians’ Dr Mick Creati said locking up children as young 10 had a lasting effect on their mental health, especially
Defence barrister Tim Marsh has a philosophical bent. A plea hearing is not a search for truth, he told the Victorian supreme court, but it is a search for an explanation. It was his task to explain why Codey Herrmann, aged 20, with no prior convictions and no history of violence, would viciously bash a
Updated February 28, 2020 18:18:47 The New Zealand and Australian prime ministers have publicly clashed over the deportation of Kiwi criminals, with Jacinda Ardern calling for Australia to “stop exporting” people. Key points: Australia has deported more than 2,600 people to New Zealand on character grounds over the past five years Deportations have long been
Neil Punchard thought it was funny. The Queensland senior constable used a police database to obtain the personal details of a domestic abuse victim and then joked when he sent her address to her violent former husband. “Just tell her you know where she lives and leave it at that. Lol,” Punchard said in a
A New Zealand man in Australia has stopped two would-be thieves, before hilariously recounting the events in an interview on the Today show on Nine. Turawaho Hemopo, known as “T” to his friends, appeared on the programme on Friday, leaving host Karl Stefanovic in stitches with typical Kiwi humour. Today host Karl Stefanovic (above, with
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