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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) released its report into Operation Karuka on 8 May. It was one of a number of reports into questionable strip searches carried out by NSW police officers over recent years, at

Liberal Senator Jim Molan says after a “very very long process” the Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force looks to be “in a position to make a recommendation” on alleged ‘war crimes’ of Australian soldiers. After a four-year long process, it is believed some Australian soldiers who served in Afghanistan have been sent war

Lighthouse glows in memory of missing backpacker Theo Hayez  The Australian Source link

Police have opposed bail for an IT expert accused of directing the importation of more than a billion dollars’ worth of drugs into Australia, after prosecutors alleged he was part of a sophisticated plan of cyber coverup and stolen identities. Key points: Stephen Francis Mizzi has applied for bail in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court His

SA Police have revealed a significant lead in the case of a missing Adelaide man they now believe was lured to a unit in Adelaide’s northern suburbs and murdered. Key points: Michael Purse’s disappearance was declared a major crime last year Police now believe he was lured to a property on Churchill Road and murdered

Around midday today police located a body believed to be that of a 40-year-old man missing from Goodna. The body was located in a creek off Woogaroo Street at Goodna. A crime scene has been declared and investigations are continuing If you have information for police, contact Policelink by providing information using the online suspicious

British-Australian woman Kylie Moore-Gilbert is despairing at her isolation inside Tehran’s Evin prison, believing she has been abandoned to her decade-long sentence, according to sources within the prison. Political prisoner Moore-Gilbert, who has spent more than 600 days inside the notorious Ward 2A of Tehran’s Evin prison, much of it in solitary confinement, was convicted

Multiple people have been injured after a brawl at a New South Wales correctional facility this morning around 1o.30am. Prisoners from Lithgow Correctional Centre were exercising on an oval when a fight broke out, a Corrective Services NSW spokesperson said. A 35-year-old inmate was airlifted to Sydney for hospital treatment. Three other inmates aged 26,

It’s a violent slice of Sydney history — gay men beaten in parks, hurled off cliffs or vanishing from the city’s streets in cases barely probed by authorities. The horrific crimes were dredged up again this week when police charged a man over the 1988 murder of Scott Johnson. The 27-year-old’s death was the most

SYDNEY (AFP) – Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has admitted damaging ancient Aboriginal rock shelters in the remote Pilbara region – blasting near the 46,000-year-old heritage site to expand an iron ore mine. Traditional owners said the culturally significant cave in Juukan Gorge, Western Australia – one of the earliest known sites occupied by Aboriginals