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Crime - Australia

Latest news on crime in Australia from the Guardian

August 2024

  • The Aboriginal flag in front of the moon

    The Crunch
    How many First Nations women and children are murdered? The figures are shocking – and yet incomplete

  • Victorian premier Jacinta Allan

    ‘Betrayal’: Indigenous and legal groups condemn Victoria’s backflip on raising the age

  • Asyai Luk arrives at the County Court of Victoria in Melbourne.

    Melbourne learner driver fined $600 after unintentionally driving off as sister clung to door in fatal accident

  • Lual Akech

    A father’s quest for answers after police botched investigation into son’s death

  • Full Story
    How a botched murder investigation left two families broken – Full Story podcast

  • A botched murder investigation left a family broken and a 15-year-old boy in jail for a year

July 2024

  • In a National Press Club address on online scamming, assistant treasurer Stephen Jones says a fake Facebook page charged people to attend funeral online

    1:06

    Online scammers targeted funeral of Labor MP Peta Murphy, says assistant treasurer – video

  • 'There's a car over there and someone's at the door,' Dare can be heard saying in footage released by the Coroners Court of Queensland

    2:09

    Phone footage shows moments before neighbour Alan Dare is killed by Wieambilla shooters – video

  • Sydney bank teller Janine Balding

    Man who abducted and raped Janine Balding back in prison for accessing extreme pornography

  • Rachel McCrow’s mother Judy McCrow speaks to the media outside the Brisbane Coroners Court in Brisbane

    ‘They know I’m here, I’m scared’: harrowing footage shows minutes before three killed by Wieambilla shooters

  • Ruqia was murdered by the man she was forced to wed. Her mother has now been jailed over the marriage

  • For 18 months my stalker persisted. I moved, changed jobs but nothing worked – so I wrote a novel

    Ella Baxter
  • ‘Incalculable inhumanity’: teens jailed for Melbourne street attack murder of 16-year-old Declan Cutler

  • Woman who forced daughter to marry her killer should be jailed to deter others, Victorian court told

  • ‘He was a beautiful man’: one man’s long journey to justice for the killing of his brother

  • ‘He maintains he told zero lies’: Greg Lynn to appeal conviction in high country murder case, court hears

  • In the box
    ‘Harrowing’ footage sparks calls for Queensland government to remove children from police watch houses

  • Domestic violence perpetrators could be tracked by specialised agency, Australian crime institute says

  • Woman charged with murder after body found in Melbourne river

  • The Crunch
    Quiz: what’s getting better for Australians today, and what’s getting worse?

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