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December 23, 2025

Arsonist jailed for killing of young Sydney teen during his first sleepover in 1998

Decade-long jail term for Gregory John Walker who threw molotov cocktail into Arthur Haines’ friend’s houseWarning: this article contains names and...

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November 23, 2025

‘Cannot believe it’s still happening’: readers respond to ‘heartbreaking’ domestic violence homicides

Readers share the impact of Guardian Australia’s two-year investigation Broken trust, which underlined the ‘shocking realities of domestic...

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November 21, 2025

Wieambilla police shooting not ‘terrorism’ but driven by Train family’s shared ‘delusions’, Queensland coroner finds

Coroner’s report into deaths of Rachel McCrow, Matthew Arnold and Alan Dare released following five-day inquest

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November 20, 2025

Statistically, there’s a reliable way to predict a domestic violence homicide like Hannah Clarke’s

Queensland researchers studying intimate-partner killings found one thing common to more than half the casesPolice made

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November 16, 2025

Hannah Clarke murders: Queensland police made potentially critical mistakes, new evidence reveals

Exclusive: Detectives investigated ‘veracity and motive’ of Brisbane woman’s allegations of domestic violence and coercive control - even after the...

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November 13, 2025

Will Victoria’s new youth crime laws be tough on crime or just a coward punch?

Jacinta Allan’s Labor government takes a leaf out of the playbook of conservative oppositions: focus on crime and hope voters see them as knights in...

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November 06, 2025

Inquest finds German backpacker Simone Strobel killed by homicide - but can’t say who attacker was

Latest inquest rejects previously found ‘very strong suspicion’ that a member of Strobel’s traveling party was involved in her death near a Lismore...

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November 06, 2025

Illegal tobacco burns $3.3bn hole in Australia’s tax revenue, crime agency says

ACIC report says total impact of illicit trade on economy amounted to $4bn in a year amid debate over cigarette exciseGet our

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October 25, 2025

Children under 14 are incapable of evil and should be protected from criminal responsibility, NSW review finds

Review was led by former supreme court judge turned parole authority chair Geoffrey Bellew SC and former NSW police deputy commissioner Jeffrey...

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October 08, 2025

AFP to get power to possess and share child abuse material to target sex offenders online

Exclusive: Department of home affairs links the changes to allegations against childcare workers in Victoria and NSW revealed earlier this year

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September 15, 2025

Youth crime in regional NSW down 12% with even sharper drops in crime hotspots

New data shows far west and Orana region is down 42%, while car theft is down by almost 25% overallGet our breaki...

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September 07, 2025

Two boys, 12 and 15, killed in Melbourne attacked by eight knife and machete wielding suspects

Fatal stabbing attack on two boys in Cobblebank had ‘the hallmarks of a youth gang crime’, Victoria police say

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