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In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Prosecution of Bruce Lehrmann: Police Join DPP in an Attempt to Clear Their Names Police officers are seeking to join civil proceedings brought by embattled...

A New South Wales Local Court Magistrate has granted a suppression order in favour of a high-ranking police officer who is alleged to have driven his police-issued vehicle while driving with a high-range prescribed concentration of alcohol, collided into a...

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is facing criminal proceedings in the High Court of the United Kingdom, over claims the vaccine which made it hundreds of millions of dollars and a household name is not as effective as marketed and has greater...

“We say that Israel has a right to defend itself, but how it defends itself matters and we want to see all innocent lives protected,” PM Anthony Albanese told a 1 November 2023 press conference in Sydney, which appears to be...

It has been reported that the driver of a vehicle which ploughed through a roadside beer garden in regional Victoria last week, killing five people, may have been experiencing a diabetic episode. The effects of diabetes can give rise to...

A Sydney-based police officer has been handed a criminal conviction and placed on a good behaviour bond after pointing a loaded pistol at a junior colleague and threatening “I’ll shoot you”. 30-year old Constable Dominic Gaynor pointed his police-issued Glock...

The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal has found that a body modification artist who performed cosmetic labiaplasty on an adult woman with her consent, should not have been convicted of female genital mutilation contrary to s 45(1)(a) of the Crimes...

A New South Wales man has been arrested and charged with several criminal and major traffic offences after allegedly ramming a police car while attempting to avoid arrest over suspicions of sexually touching another person without consent. Police say they...

‘Double, double toil and trouble!’ – the mischievous dealings of cackling witches, flying around on broomsticks and cursing your crops have been a source of moral panic for centuries. It’s not surprising then, that criminal offences against witchcraft have been...

Australia’s national broadcaster has been ordered to pay $390,000 plus interest and legal costs after losing a defamation lawsuit brought by a former Australian Special Forces Commando. The case is important in so far it has made clear the recently-introduced...