Woman Faces String of Charges Over Bus Stop Crash
A woman has been refused bail after being charged with a series of alleged traffic and criminal offences following an incident in Sydney’s Lower North Shore that police say began with a vehicle crashing into a bus stop before escalating...
AFP Investigates Arson Attack on Weapons Manufacturer as an Act of Terrorism
The Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team announced on 5 August 2026 that it is investigating an arson and graffiti attack that targeted the Lovitt Technologies facility located on Wurendjeri land in the northeastern Melbourne suburb of Greensborough in July 2025,...
NSW Police Claim Success in Warrantless Sydney-to-Newcastle Rail Blitz
Police have arrested and charged 24 people with a total of 27 criminal offences after a three-day operation targeting crime across the Sydney to Newcastle rail corridor, in a reminder that being stopped for something as minor as an unpaid...
Answers Sought Over Why Charges Haven’t Been Laid Over Kumanjayi White’s Custody Death
The family of deceased man Kumanjayi White has this week initiated legal proceedings in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to ascertain which NT police employee decided not to press charges against two officers, who’d wrestled the 24-year-old Warlpiri man with...
NSW Police to Be Given Powers to Access and Download Phone Content on the Beat
The Minns government is set to introduce new laws into New South Wales parliament, so that the power NSW police has to require people to provide access to their digital devices, in order to a facilitate scan and download of...
School Employee Charged with Possessing Child Abuse and Animal Abuse Material
Detectives from the New South Wales Police Sex Crimes Squad have charged a man employed at a school with a string of alleged child abuse material and animal abuse material offences, as part of the ongoing Strike Force Trawler investigation....
US Calls on Australia to Join Coalition Against Global “Far-Left Terrorism”
During his opening address at the 16 July 2026 Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, a Washington DC meeting that involved representatives from more than 65 nations, including Australia, US secretary of state Marco Rubio made certain that the...
The Offence of Child Abduction in New South Wales
A New South Wales woman was sentenced to two years prison time in March 2025, over having abducted her own child from a park on Dharawal land in the coastal city of Wollongong in December 2022. The woman had taken...
Impact of Youth on Moral Culpability Must Be Considered in Sentencing
Ali Qadir arranged to meet Karim Shehade at an address in the Sydney southwestern suburb of Yagoona at around 11 pm on 14 October 2023, in order to buy a car that the latter had listed on Facebook Marketplace for...
Woman Charged Over Alleged $3 Million Clandestine Lab Sourcing Role
A 59-year-old woman has been refused bail after being arrested by State Crime Command detectives and charged for her alleged involvement in a $3 million drug manufacturing syndicate operating in the Port Stephens area. The arrest follows a long-running investigation...
