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Former MP's penalty doubled for election Facebook posts

Former MP's penalty doubled for election Facebook posts

Former Liberal MP Andrew Laming has had his fines doubled on appeal over three Facebook posts found to have breached the law around election campaigns.

Stacks of prison punishments 'unlawful, unjust'

Stacks of prison punishments 'unlawful, unjust'

Stacks of prison punishments 'unlawful, unjust'

Stacks of prison punishments 'unlawful, unjust'

Tina was awaiting trial when she asked for help with her drug problem. A damning report has found she was instead charged with failing a drug test.

Higgins hit with fresh lawsuit over $2.4 million trust

Higgins hit with fresh lawsuit over $2.4 million trust

Higgins hit with fresh lawsuit over $2.4 million trust

Higgins hit with fresh lawsuit over $2.4 million trust

Senator Linda Reynolds has renewed legal proceedings to dissolve the trust protecting Brittany Higgins' multimillion-dollar commonwealth payout.

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Women are terrorised but ministers avoid the T word

Women are terrorised but ministers avoid the T word

Youth Minister Anne Aly came the closest among federal ministers to compare treating family violence offenders like terrorism suspects.

Betting agencies roped into A-League corruption scandal

Betting agencies roped into A-League corruption scandal

Prosecutors are awaiting evidence from three international betting agencies over alleged yellow-card fixing by Macarthur FC's ex-captain and two players.

Man faces court charged with murdering his partner

Man faces court charged with murdering his partner

A Warumungu and Arrernte man has faced court charged with murdering his partner in Darwin.

Alleged serial killer expressed sympathy to family

Alleged serial killer expressed sympathy to family

Accused serial killer Steven Hainsworth told a relative of an alleged victim that he had gone into the woman's yard to retrieve a ball, a court has been told.

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Woman inflated fight into rape complaint, court hears

Woman inflated fight into rape complaint, court hears

Woman inflated fight into rape complaint, court hears

Woman inflated fight into rape complaint, court hears

Lawyers for a man accused of raping and assaulting a woman at The Star casino and hotel have cast doubt on her version of events.

'I'm sorry': ex-councillor speaks after vicious attack

'I'm sorry': ex-councillor speaks after vicious attack

'I'm sorry': ex-councillor speaks after vicious attack

'I'm sorry': ex-councillor speaks after vicious attack

A disgraced lawyer elected as councillor in Sydney's wealthy east was addicted to prescription drugs when he brutally attacked a family friend in her home.

No warning, no reason behind driver's stabbing death

No warning, no reason behind driver's stabbing death

No warning, no reason behind driver's stabbing death

No warning, no reason behind driver's stabbing death

A former parliamentary driver was stabbed to death at his own home by a man with a propensity for violence who was on bail for an earlier alleged wounding.

Higgins' police report detailed to defamation trial

Higgins' police report detailed to defamation trial

Higgins' police report detailed to defamation trial

Higgins' police report detailed to defamation trial

A police report detailing Brittany Higgins' night out with friends before she was allegedly raped in Parliament House have been read at a defamation trial.

Man admits he hit wife with axe after she bit his thumb

Man admits he hit wife with axe after she bit his thumb

Man admits he hit wife with axe after she bit his thumb

Man admits he hit wife with axe after she bit his thumb

A man who killed his wife has given evidence in his own murder trial where he claimed she came at him with a knife.

Companies charged after man jailed over workplace death

Companies charged after man jailed over workplace death

Companies charged after man jailed over workplace death

Companies charged after man jailed over workplace death

WorkSafe has charged two companies over the death of a worker who was crushed under a Bobcat at a construction site.

'Great pain' not enough to require help for dying girl

'Great pain' not enough to require help for dying girl

'Great pain' not enough to require help for dying girl

'Great pain' not enough to require help for dying girl

A woman accused of killing a young girl by withholding her insulin told police she would not have called an ambulance even if the girl was writhing in pain.

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Guns for hire: police bust accused 'freelance' gang

Three men allegedly carrying out criminal offences such as shootings and kidnappings for organised crime networks have been arrested.

Man charged with lighting up, destroying tobacco stores

A 20-year-old is accused of lighting up two tobacco shops and ram raiding a third with a stolen car in Victoria's ongoing gangland war.

O'Keefe flags mental-health defence for latest charges

Former TV star Andrew O'Keefe will fight charges of stalking or intimidation and breaching an AVO after an incident in Sydney's eastern suburbs.

Ex-Lib ordered to fly in for Pesutto's defamation trial

A former Victorian Liberal MP-turned-educator in the UK must return to Australia to give evidence in a defamation trial brought against his former boss.

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'Put up and shut up' attitude in remote housing tested

Aboriginal people in remote communities have been expected to "put up and shut up" about poor housing for too long, say lawyers behind a major class action.

Another woman killed from suspected domestic violence

Police have arrested a man after a woman was killed in a suspected domestic violence incident.

Deepfake porn laws to target sharing of sexual images

Federal parliament is cracking down on the sharing of fake or digitally altered pornographic images without consent.

Findings of mum, four kids' fatal crash 'waste of time'

The findings of an inquest into a crash that claimed the lives of a mother and her four children on a major highway have been dismissed as a "waste of time".

Legal loss welcomed as mass brumby shooting continues

A group of bush users are the latest to fail in a legal bid to stop the NSW government shooting brumbies from helicopters in Kosciuszko National Park.

Calls for family violence funding to be election issue

A report card on Australia's progress in ending gender-based violence concludes more funding is needed, especially in crisis areas.

Review gun laws 'so no one else has to go through it'

An urgent review of correctional officers' use of firearms has been recommended by an inquiry into the death of an Indigenous man shot while fleeing custody.

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