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The independent United Nations human rights expert in Mali has called on Australia to cease selling arms to the war-torn country and urged the international community to do more to stop nations “actively producing and selling weapons” in conflict zones. The Guardian revealed on Wednesday that the Australian government had issued 16 permits to arms

Sarah Bailey Writing is an exercise in maybe. Maybe someone will read it. Maybe they won’t. Maybe they will like it. Maybe they won’t.You won’t know until words appear on paper (or pixels). And that’s the thing — getting the words down, and in the right order.  Sarah Bailey had always wanted to write a

Updated March 12, 2020 07:57:23 Photo: Police have set up a number of crime scenes across Melbourne’s inner east. (ABC News) Three people have died, including one man shot by police, with a fourth person in a critical condition after what investigators believe is a random stabbing spree across Melbourne’s east. Key points: Police believe

news, latest-news, DRUG users in regional Australia have flushed more nicotine, alcohol, ice, stimulants and opioids down the toilet than those in the cities. An Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) wastewater report reveals an estimated 11.5 tonnes of the drug ice was used in the country last year. With resources more thinly spread in regional

WHILE neighbouring city Rockhampton will be part of a trial crackdown on youth crime, Gladstone will have to wait with the rest of the state. It was announced this week that Rockhampton, Townsville, Cairns, Brisbane North and Logan will trial a new police/ youth justice worker partnership targeting high-risk offenders. The new plan takes a

Labour Party MP Louisa Wall accepted a petition at parliament yesterday asking MPs to dob Australia into the United Nations over its human rights record. A UN review of Australia’s human rights record is due in November. About 200 New Zealand citizens detained throughout Australia or on Christmas Island have signed the petition. The detainees

A Cambridge man has pledged to double a reward to 2 million Australian dollars for information that could solve the murder of his younger brother, Scott Johnson, whose mysterious 1988 killing near Sydney has captivated that country. Australian authorities believe Johnson was killed in an anti-gay hate crime. Australian police had for years turned a

Robert Cipriani, the professional gambler who goes by the alias Robin Hood, blew $2.5 million at a Sydney casino. That night Mr Carolan told police he was minding the money for his new business partner, American Owen Hanson, to prevent Hanson blowing it at the casino. The jury has heard that earlier that day a

news, national A Canadian man has been extradited to Melbourne and charged over the import of 730 kilograms of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine and methamphetamine into Australia, almost a decade ago. The 35-year-old man was extradited from Toronto at the weekend on allegations of involvement in an international crime organisation that sent drugs to Australia between January

Immediately after the Christchurch massacre in 2019, the New Zealand government pledged dramatic gun law changes. A year later, amid an ongoing elevated terror level, the government has quietly dropped its promises the laws will prevent future mass shootings. It has shifted instead to platitudes about never wanting to see repeats of such horror, and