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Federal police say they have dealt a "huge blow" to two major international drug syndicates operating in Australia, which they allege have links to the family of Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, crime, drug-offences, australia, netherlands, united-arab-emirates
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More than 16 road signs, numerous guide posts and a gate have been destroyed in a motorised vandalism spree in the Adelaide Hills.
Topics: traffic-offences, vandalism, road, crime, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedThe parents of two young children are spending time behind bars for their role in the supply and possession of 89 grams of cocaine, valued at $35,000.
Topics: crime, drugs-and-substance-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedA young father stabbed to death at a Melbourne train station on Saturday was the cousin of a woman who was found dead at a Melbourne hotel after a bucks party last month, it is revealed.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, melbourne-3000, vic, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedAustralia's prison population is expanding at an unprecedented rate and we spend more on criminal justice than most other developed countries, but get worse results, writes Andrew Bushnell.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, crime, crime-prevention, australia
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| UpdatedA Tasmanian bus driver charged with negligent driving causing the death Queensland police Sergeant Wendy Evans, hit as she crossed the road near Hobart's waterfront in July 2016, fronts court.
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| UpdatedACT police hunt for vandals who used power tools to cut off the heads of three raptor statues at the National Dinosaur Museum in Canberra.
Topics: vandalism, crime, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedPolice in three countries arrest 17 people and seize nearly two tonnes of drugs in connection with what Australian authorities say is an effort by organised crime groups to transport large amounts of drugs into the country.
Topics: crime, crime-prevention, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, sydney-2000, australia, netherlands, united-arab-emirates
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| UpdatedA man accused of killing his wife and burying her body in a shallow beach grave made three phone calls the day he claimed she went missing, one to a pizza shop and two to a woman he allegedly had an affair with, a NSW jury hears.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
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A Brisbane man could face a manslaughter retrial after a jury fails to reach a verdict over whether a punch caused the death of a man who was hit by a garbage truck on a busy motorway in 2015.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedA Queensland woman pleads guilty to murder at an Adelaide court hearing, so will not proceed to trial over the killing of her friend's grandfather.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, craigmore-5114, adelaide-5000, sa, redbank-plains-4301, qld
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Police investigating the suspected murder of Donna Louise Steele set up four crime scenes at Cooktown, but say the lack of security cameras in the area is proving a challenge.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, cooktown-4895, qld
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| UpdatedA man dies in hospital after being shot and Tasered, and pepper sprayed by police officers who say he confronted them with a knife at Grafton on the NSW mid-north coast.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, grafton-2460
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| UpdatedA British model kidnapped, bundled into a suitcase and handcuffed to a dresser in northern Italy after travelling to Milan for a photo shoot was to be sold into the sex trade, Italian police say.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, italy, united-kingdom, poland
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A young French man who was recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital is under investigation for an attempted terrorist attack after he tried to breach security, authorities say.
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Islamic leaders are describing the attack on a Minneapolis mosque during morning prayers as a fire-bombing that "puts freedom under threat".
Topics: islam, crime, law-crime-and-justice, united-states
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Banking executives and board members who are complicit in money laundering or fraud should face jail terms, Senator Nick Xenophon says, in the wake of a CBA scandal that could see the institution fined up to $1 trillion.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, fraud-and-corporate-crime, law-crime-and-justice, crime, banking, government-and-politics, money-and-monetary-policy, federal-government, australia
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Police are investigating the homicide of a woman, whose body was found in bushland in far north Queensland.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, missing-person, cooktown-4895, qld
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Martin Cash escaped the infamous Port Arthur prison, robbed inns and killed a man in Hobart, but somehow was one of very few bushrangers to die of old age.
Topics: 19th-century, crime, history, human-interest, hobart-7000
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A conversation with an older Noongar man helped Marlon Johns turn his life around after 15 years in prison.
Topics: community-and-society, aboriginal, human-interest, crime, wa, australia
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| UpdatedA Canberra man is remanded in custody after allegedly breaking into the Russian embassy compound in an attempt to steal a BMX bike.
Topics: burglary, crime, law-crime-and-justice, griffith-2603, canberra-2600, act, australia
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A man is charged over the deliberate lighting of a fire at the Bellevue Reception Centre in Bankstown last year.
Topics: arson, crime, police, law-crime-and-justice, bankstown-2200
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Footage shows neighbours trying to stop a fight
Topics: crime, refugees, law-crime-and-justice, nauru
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Murderer David Napier with detectives at Dwellingup forest where he disposed of some body parts.
Topics: crime, murder-and-manslaughter, police, dwellingup-6213, perth-6000
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A NSW prisoner who assaulted another inmate, leaving him with a traumatic brain injury in what has been described as pre-planned attack, is sentenced to nine years in jail.
Topics: courts-and-trials, assault, crime, prisons-and-punishment, wellington-2820, orange-2800