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  Queensland’s Deputy Premier Steven Miles has this morning admitted there has been “failings” with the state’s approach to youth crime, admitting that a number of incidents “frankly shouldn’t have happened”. “Clearly there have been failings recently – there have been some incidents that frankly shouldn’t have happened,” Mr Miles said this morning. Deputy Premier

Queensland Police have pointed the finger at the court system for letting repeat juvenile offenders out on bail, and joined a chorus of angry voices demanding change. It follows a 17-year-old male being charged with murder after an horrific car crash in Brisbane that killed Kate Leadbetter, 31, and Matty Field, 37, and their unborn

SA’s dumbest offenders of 2020  The Advertiser Source link

Police have commenced a homicide investigation following the death of a man in Bracken Ridge overnight. Officers were called to a residence on Wobur Street at 12.30pm today (January 31) after a 39-year-old man was located deceased inside by a relative. His death is being considered suspicious. Police are appealing for anyone who may have

A brazen shooting that left a man dead and another injured in Sydney’s south overnight was a planned ambush on two victims who were “clearly” targeted, police say. An investigation is underway into the public place shooting in Hurstville, where officers found the two men with gunshot wounds inside a white Mercedes. Officers swarmed the

A major investigation is underway after a man’s body was discovered inside a burnt-out vehicle in Sydney’s south-west. Emergency crews made the shock discovery around 6pm last night, after being called to reports of a car on fire on Hume Road at Smithfield. The man, believed to be aged in his 20s, is yet to

The country is currently in the process of finding a manager for the project, called the Mekong-Australia Program on Transnational Crime. It will aim to tackle financial crimes, illicit drugs, child sexual exploitation and human trafficking and is due to focus on Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. A spokesperson from Australia’s Department of Foreign

A man’s body has been found in a Melbourne river on Saturday night. Police have launched an investigation after a man’s body was found in a Melbourne river on Saturday evening. A police spokeswoman said the man, believed to be in his 50s-60s, was found in the river alongside the Dandenong Creek Trail. Police were

Leftist mob bullying should be designated a ‘hate speech’ crime  The Australian Source link

Lawyers tasked with prosecuting alleged Australian war crimes will face “immense” hurdles in building criminal cases, experts say, including the gathering of years-old evidence in remote parts of Afghanistan and proving soldiers intended to harm non-combatants. On Thursday, the Australian Defence Force is due to release a long-awaited report detailing allegations that the nation’s special