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Mood-altering drug use a 'human right': top prosecutor

Mood-altering drug use a 'human right': top prosecutor

Australia's longest-serving public prosecutor is pushing for a Portuguese-style cannabis model that decriminalises drugs and brings users before experts.

Youth offenders leaving detention without case plan

Youth offenders leaving detention without case plan

Youth offenders leaving detention without case plan

Youth offenders leaving detention without case plan

Around one in 10 serious juvenile offenders in Queensland are being released from detention centres without a rehabilitation plan, budget estimates has heard.

Doctor charged over lewd patient photos set for custody

Doctor charged over lewd patient photos set for custody

Doctor charged over lewd patient photos set for custody

Doctor charged over lewd patient photos set for custody

Suspended doctor Nicholas Chu has been warned his bail will likely be revoked before he is sentenced over allegations he took intimate photos of patients.

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Judge pushes for granny killer to be released on parole

Judge pushes for granny killer to be released on parole

A 22-year-old man who killed his grandmother because he believed she was his abusive former stepfather will soon be eligible for parole.

UK police hurt in violent riot after three girls killed

UK police hurt in violent riot after three girls killed

Rioters have clashed with British police, hurling bricks and setting fires in a town already reeling from a knife attack that left three children dead.

Disgraced TV star appeals domestic violence conviction

Disgraced TV star appeals domestic violence conviction

Lawyers for former TV host Andrew O'Keefe have taken aim at the credibility of a woman he was found guilty of assaulting, in a bid to overturn his conviction.

Forestry Corporation fined $360k for cutting down trees

Forestry Corporation fined $360k for cutting down trees

New conditions imposed following the Black Summer bushfires did not stop the felling of 53 trees, with a court accepting a pattern of environmental offending.

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Mother fled family home almost 10 years before killing

Mother fled family home almost 10 years before killing

Mother fled family home almost 10 years before killing

Mother fled family home almost 10 years before killing

A man has been accused of hitting his wife with a hammer and stomping on her almost a decade before he killed her in an allegedly "brutal and vicious" attack.

Nurse accused of stalking NSW MP hit with new charge

Nurse accused of stalking NSW MP hit with new charge

Nurse accused of stalking NSW MP hit with new charge

Nurse accused of stalking NSW MP hit with new charge

A nurse accused of stalking a NSW state MP will try to claim a mental health impairment as she faces a fresh charge of stalking another Sydney woman.

Wife 'heard husband shot dead' on phone to triple zero

Wife 'heard husband shot dead' on phone to triple zero

Wife 'heard husband shot dead' on phone to triple zero

Wife 'heard husband shot dead' on phone to triple zero

A woman was on the phone to triple zero when hearing what she now believes was the gunshot that killed her husband coming from their neighbours' rural property.

Magistrate's brother jailed over 'brazen' stabbing

Magistrate's brother jailed over 'brazen' stabbing

Magistrate's brother jailed over 'brazen' stabbing

Magistrate's brother jailed over 'brazen' stabbing

Sean Sonnet, the brother of a Victorian magistrate, will serve more jail time after admitting to stabbing another man in the chest.

Ex-AFL agent Ricky Nixon to fight fake merch charges

Ex-AFL agent Ricky Nixon to fight fake merch charges

Ex-AFL agent Ricky Nixon to fight fake merch charges

Ex-AFL agent Ricky Nixon to fight fake merch charges

Former player manager Ricky Nixon is accused of obtaining property by deception through the sale of fraudulent AFL memorabilia.

Man who murdered ex-wife argues jail term 'excessive'

Man who murdered ex-wife argues jail term 'excessive'

Man who murdered ex-wife argues jail term 'excessive'

Man who murdered ex-wife argues jail term 'excessive'

A man who murdered his former wife by stabbing her 17 times at her home is appealing the length of his 26-year jail sentence on the grounds it is "excessive".

Third child dies in UK attack, Taylor Swift 'in shock'

Third child dies in UK attack, Taylor Swift 'in shock'

Third child dies in UK attack, Taylor Swift 'in shock'

Third child dies in UK attack, Taylor Swift 'in shock'

British police say a third child has died after a stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga class.

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Prisons boss says he was 'scapegoat' after teen died

A former corrective services boss says he was blamed for government failures after an Indigenous teenager fatally self-harmed in custody.

Mum's final screams played at husband's murder trial

A man has been accused of sneaking up on his estranged wife under the cover of darkness and beating her to death in her home in front of their two children.

Two more charged over 'mistaken identity' gang shooting

Police have laid further charges over a triple shooting that killed one person and injured two others, bringing the total number of arrests up to nine.

Man sentenced over 'bloodbath' murder of sleeping teen

A man who snuck into a sleeping teenager's home and stabbed him to death did so because he saw himself as his sister's protector, a court has been told.

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Appeal win for three men jailed over 'toolbox' deaths

Three men jailed after two people were locked in a toolbox and dumped in a Queensland lagoon have had their murder convictions overturned.

Camera captured driver at 187km/h before fatal crash

A speed camera that captured a man driving at 187km/h one hour before he caused a fatal crash could not transmit images in real time, an inquest has been told.

Surgeon to practice again despite past deaths and drugs

A surgeon has taken steps to better himself and can practice again after two of his patients died and he was caught buying cocaine in a Sydney beachside suburb.

'High-risk' serial rapist jailed for graphic searches

A man with a "frightening" history of violent sexual offending, including the gang rape of a Sydney woman, has been sent back to jail over online searches.

Firm digs in for fight over 'Fortescue secrets' theft

A firm accused of stealing Fortescue's trade secrets is challenging an "unduly extensive" order for the seizure of items from its premises and directors' homes.

Guilty plea over severed leg on highway, hammer attack

A man has pleaded guilty to attempted murder after another man was run down by a ute, reportedly cutting off his leg, and attacked with a hammer.

Officer who fatally shot fugitive 'acted appropriately'

Victoria's state coroner has released his findings into the death of Stanley Turvey, who was shot dead after evading police for three days.

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