Victoria police confirm man, 32, was not wounded when shots fired in Thomastown on Friday morning
A former Mongols bikie has survived a shooting in suburban Melbourne, two years after an assassination attempt outside a cemetery.
Shots were fired at Suleiman “Sam” Abdulrahim, a professional boxer who goes by the name “The Punisher”, as he left his Thomastown home early on Friday morning.
Continue reading...Premillennialism advocate who has pleaded not guilty to five federal charges in Arizona allegedly posted videos saying family who killed officers were ‘martyrs’
An American man allegedly told the family who fatally shot two Australian police officers he sent his “comfort and assurance” before they died in a gunfight with a tactical response team.
United States prosecutors have unveiled new details about the December 2022 shootings at Wieambilla, west of Brisbane, as part of their case against Arizona man Donald Day Jr.
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The NSW police minister, Yasmin Catley, was on ABC News Breakfast earlier to discuss the state’s four-day domestic violence blitz.
She said it was the sixth operation in 18 months, with “thousands of arrests” in that time.
[The operations] are scheduled about every quarter, so police have been doing this for quite some time. NSW police [utilise] the DV registry, where they accumulate information about [alleged] high-risk offenders and it’s that intelligence that they use to then go out and undertake these operations.
We will debate it when we return. I would really urge the opposition to get behind it and support those bail laws that we have before the parliament.
Everything is on the table. We are all worried about this, I’m a parent as well myself. Social media companies are not doing enough and we need to seriously look if we need to change the law in order to keep your young people safe.
We need to get all the experts in one place. The premier [Chris Minns] has called this emergency summit. We are just seeing too many cases where the worst possible thing has occurred because of bullying online. We banned phones in schools in NSW and that has worked an enormous amount in the school day inside the school gates, but we need to look beyond that now.
Continue reading...Police say the boy’s mother raised concerns after the father failed to hand over the child for an access visit
A crime scene has been established after the bodies of a man and his two-year-old son were found in a home on the New South Wales far north coast overnight, in what police believe was a murder-suicide.
Police said officers attended a unit in East Lismore about 9.45pm on Sunday due to concerns for the welfare of a man and his son.
Continue reading...Man, 41, arrested and charged with online grooming after allegedly sending inappropriate images to someone he thought was 13
New South Wales police have charged a children’s author for the alleged online grooming of children, under Strike Force Trawler.
The state crime command’s sex crimes squad force detectives launched an investigation early this month after receiving an interstate report a children’s author was allegedly communicating inappropriately with a child online.
Continue reading...Woman told to buy MacBooks after being threatened with knife at the Stud Park shopping centre on 10 May, police say
A mother and her baby were allegedly abducted from a Melbourne shopping centre by a knife-wielding man who then forced the woman to drive to electronic stores to buy laptops.
Victoria police are hunting for the man after the incident in Rowville, in Melbourne’s south-east, on 10 May.
Continue reading...Chris Minns said Labor MP Anthony D’Adam’s comments in a speech to parliament were ‘absolutely reprehensible’
A Labor politician who criticised the actions of New South Wales police officers towards pro-Palestinian protesters has been sacked from his role as parliamentary secretary by the premier, Chris Minns.
Minns took aim at the comments made by the upper house MP Anthony D’Adam, saying that D’Adam had never raised his concerns about the police commissioner, Karen Webb, and officers before making his speech in parliament on Wednesday night.
Continue reading...Lawyers to open their case after Lynn, 57, pleaded not guilty to murdering the pair in March 2020
A jury is expected to begin hearing evidence in the double murder trial of Gregory Stuart Lynn in the Victorian supreme court on Tuesday.
Lynn, 57, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Russell Hill and Carol Clay in the state’s alpine region in March 2020.
Continue reading...Lawyers to open their case after Lynn, 57, pleaded not guilty to murdering Russell Hill and Carol Clay
Prosecutors will outline their case against an airline captain accused of the double murder of Russell Hill and Carol Clay at a campsite in Victoria’s alpine region.
Greg Lynn, 57, pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and a jury has been empanelled in Melbourne’s supreme court ahead of trial openings on Friday.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Andrew Giles argued that court evidence about how ankle monitors work could help freed detainees breach visa conditions
The Albanese government has successfully suppressed details of the effectiveness of electronic monitoring, arguing that transparency could encourage former immigration detainees to breach ankle bracelet visa conditions.
On Friday the high court granted a suppression order on expert evidence relating to how ankle monitors work in a challenge of harsh new visa conditions, set to be heard as early as August.
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The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, says the prime minister needs to “pick the phone up” and speak directly to the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, after the Australian government accused a Chinese fighter jet of dropping flares close to an Australian helicopter in international waters.
The defence minister, Richard Marles, yesterday branded the incident as “unacceptable” and said the Australian pilot had to take evasive action to avoid the flares. You can read all the details below:
I think the prime minister needs to pick the phone up, frankly, and speak to the Chinese president … and express our deep concern, because at some stage, there’s going to be a miscalculation and an Australian defence force member is going to lose their life.
And that is a tragic circumstance that has to be avoided at all costs, but there will be a miscalculation by somebody who’s flying that jet or somebody who’s on the deck of a Chinese naval ship, something will happen.
Continue reading...Glen Coleman did not deny he had sex with the woman at Windsor police station but said it was consensual
After a teenager attended a western Sydney police station to make a sexual crime complaint, a detective abused his position to touch, grope and rape her, a jury has been told.
Glen Coleman met the 19-year-old at Windsor police station in February 2022 after she came in to make a complaint that her cousin had threatened to share naked images of her online.
Continue reading...WA premier Roger Cook suggests teenager who allegedly stabbed man in Bunnings car park in Willetton may have been radicalised online
Western Australian police say they have shot and killed a teenager who allegedly attacked a man in a Perth car park on Saturday night.
Detectives on Sunday said there was no ongoing threat to the public and the 16-year-old was believed to have been acting alone in Willetton.
Continue reading...The 28-year-old senior constable is facing five assault charges, three counts of stalking and two counts of harassment
A police officer has been suspended with pay while he waits to face court charged with domestic violence offences.
The 28-year-old senior constable was released on bail to face Picton local court on 16 May.
Continue reading...Man, 22, believed to have been stabbed at Park Beach Reserve moments after leaving the water with police launching a murder investigation
A surfer has died after being found with stab wounds near a beach in Coffs Harbour on the mid-north coast of New South Wales.
The 22-year-old is believed to have been allegedly stabbed moments after leaving the water and was found in Park Beach Reserve at about 6.40am on Thursday.
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As we flagged earlier, the treasurer Jim Chalmers will today announce foreign investment changes, with approvals to be made quicker and greater scrutiny to be placed on potential risks.
You can read all the details on this from Peter Hannam below:
Right now, we treat investments from right around the world more or less the same. We want to streamline it for the less-risky investments so we can devote much more time and energy and resources to screening the sorts of investments that we’re seeing in critical industries – like critical minerals, critical infrastructure, critical data, and the like.
This is all about strengthening the foreign investment framework to make sure that investment is in the national interest. We want to maximise the right kind of investment, but we want to minimise risk and that’s what these changes I’ll announce today are all about.
Continue reading...Police and intelligence agencies should consult with multicultural communities before designating an incident an act of terror, Fowler MP says
Authorities need to consult multicultural communities to ensure labelling violent crimes a terror act does not alienate people, an independent MP says.
Dai Le, who represents the western Sydney electorate of Fowler where a bishop was stabbed during a sermon, called for police to be culturally aware of what declaring a terrorism incident could do to a community.
Continue reading...It comes as a sixth teenager was charged with terrorism-related offences after raids across Sydney as investigations continue into church stabbing
A tenth person has been charged in relation to their alleged participation in the Wakeley church riot, according to New South Wales police.
The 27-year-old was arrested at a home in Granville in western Sydney on Saturday after several items alleged to be linked to the incident were seized by the strike force.
Continue reading...Police are investigating after the deaths of a 16-year-old boy in Dubbo and a 28-year-old man in Sydney’s Quakers Hill
Two people have died after separate stabbings in New South Wales overnight.
Police are investigating the death of a man found with stab wounds in Sydney’s north-west, and the stabbing death of a teenager in the state’s west.
Continue reading...Muslim organisations say they were not consulted before counter-terrorism raids that resulted in arrests relating to a church stabbing in Sydney
Representatives of the Australian Muslim community have called out what they called “questionable law enforcement tactics” after seven minors were arrested and six of them charged with counter-terrorism-related offences this week.
Three major bodies, the Australian National Imams Council, the Alliance of Australian Muslims and the Australian Muslim Advocacy Network, have also demanded the government revise Australia’scounter-terrorism laws, saying they “target specific communities”.
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