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Loading Jail sentences for some offences can be 15 or more years, even when little genuine harm results. There is no recognition that leaked information has never killed anyone in Australia. In contrast, secret intelligence generated by Australia and its allies has led to innocent people, including children, being killed in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Parliamentarians

news, national, An NSW Central Tablelands resident who was wrongfully convicted of his girlfriend’s murder in the 1960s has had his gut-wrenching story of injustice featured in a new documentary. The Stan true-crime series After the Night focuses on Australian serial killer – Eric Edgar Cooke, who terrorised Perth during the 1960s, murdering at least

A man has been charged, accused of assaulting a nurse at a COVID testing clinic in Sydney’s north last week. The nurse approached a car at the drive-through clinic at Macquarie Hospital just before 10am Friday when she asked the passenger in the vehicle to put out his cigarette. Police will allege he refused before

A Chinese tertiary student will appear before a Sydney court charged with the murder of his 19-year-old girlfriend at an apartment complex in Sydney’s south last year. Weijie He, 21, was put into an induced coma after he was found seriously injured on the footpath in Chisholm Street, Wolli Creek, on the afternoon of June

Netflix may be doubling down on true crime docuseries right now, but its best new documentary offering features a 70-year-old essayist who’s had writer’s block for several decades providing her verdict on everything that’s wrong with the world. Directed – with obvious pleasure – by Martin Scorsese, Pretend it’s a City is a thoroughly enjoyable

news, latest-news A Victorian man who fatally stabbed an associate amid an argument about Nazi handguns has been found not guilty of murder on the grounds of self-defence. Jarrod Leonard Frank was charged with murdering Scott Bury in the driveway of his Bendigo home in January 2018. In Victoria’s Supreme Court on Wednesday Justice Michael

On average, one child is killed by a parent almost every fortnight in Australia. Last week, three children — Claire, 7, Anna, 5, and Matthew, 3 — were included in this terrible number. Homicide investigators have formed the “preliminary view” that their mother, Katie Perinovic, was responsible for their deaths before killing herself. Their grieving father, Tomislav

news, latest-news US President Donald Trump granted clemency to former White House aide Steve Bannon as part of a wave of pardons and commutations issued in his final hours in office, but did not pardon himself, members of his family or lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Trump leaves office on Wednesday, when Joe Biden is sworn in

A video revealing a disturbing stockpile of weapons seized from a Brisbane home was more akin to a scene from a New York gangster film than a discovery in suburban Australia. A man and a woman were charged with multiple offences after police attended a home in Brisbane’s south on Tuesday following an investigation into

news, national, news, firearms, police, guns, shooting More than 650 Victorians are now banned from owning firearms for at least a decade. Police this week revealed the fast growing list of shooters who have found themselves presented with Firearm Prohibition Orders after a series of raids in a regional city. It is only three years