Police Employee Charged with Stealing Guns from Police Storage Facility
A Queensland Police Service (QPS) employee has been arrested and charged after allegedly stealing weapons from a police storage facility and stockpiling them in his Brisbane home. The actions of the 33-year old man were allegedly uncovered when he called...
Sydney Suburbs Where Reports of Sexual Assault Are on the Rise
Despite crime rates in New South Wales being at forty-year lows, a new report suggests that reports of sexual offences have risen by as much as forty percent in some parts of Sydney. In its latest quarterly update, the Bureau...
Good Cop Prosecuted, While Police Brutality Goes Unpunished
It has been revealed that dozens of brutality complaints had already been received against police officers in Surfers Paradise ‘Team Two’ when they perpetrated an assault upon 22-year old chef Noa Begic in the basement carpark of a Gold Coast...
Government Bans Alleged Drug Suppliers from Inner City Public Housing
The Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) issued a letter to inner city public housing applicants on February 28, explaining that they’ll be banned from certain housing estates if they were convicted of, or even charged with, drug supply or...
NSW Lawyer Struck Off and Prosecuted For Fraud
When applying to be admitted into the Australian legal profession, law graduates are required to undergo a character test to determine whether they are a “fit and proper person” to engage in legal practise. However, there are lawyers who -...
Politicians Should be Allowed to Criticise Judges, Argues Former High Court Justice
Former High Court Justice Dyson Heydon has written a searing critique of a hearing last year in the Victorian Court of Appeal (VCA), which determined whether to prosecute three federal ministers for contempt of court after they criticised the Victorian...
Buyers Beware: Non-Existent Tickets for Sale
A 33-year old man from Queensland has been charged with fraud after allegedly accepting online payments for tickets to singer Ed Sheeran’s recent concerts in Brisbane and Sydney, but never delivering them. The current charges relate to two complainants, with...
Killer Cop Charged with Murder
The police officer who shot and killed unarmed Australian woman Justine Damond last July has turned himself in to authorities. Ms Damond was wearing her pyjamas the night she was shot dead by US police officer Mohamed Noor from the...
NSW Police Set to Harass Traffic Offenders at their Homes
New South Wales police officers will be randomly “visiting” the homes of traffic offenders as part of a strategy which police commissioner Mick Fuller claims is designed to deter them from reoffending. Knock knock, it’s police Mr Fuller has directed...
George Pell’s Committal Hearing: Some Sexual Assault Charges to be Dropped
Crown prosecutor Mark Gibson SC has foreshadowed that a number of criminal charges brought against Cardinal George Pell, Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic, will be formally withdrawn because the complainant they relate to is “medically unfit to give evidence”. It is expected...
