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Crime - Australia

Latest news on crime in Australia from the Guardian

June 2024

  • Victoria Police tape restricts access to a crime scene in Melbourne's north

    Reports of sexual assault in NSW up 42% in five years, new data reveals

  • ‘Rural crime fiction is flourishing in the hands of several champions of diversity, including Dinuka McKenzie, RWR McDonald and Hayley Scrivener'

    The rural network
    Australian rural crime fiction is booming – it’s time it represented the true diversity of the bush

    Michael Burge
  • A close up of a Croatia flag

    Court condemns soccer fans’ Nazi salutes at 2022 Australia Cup final

  • Jordan Shanks-Markovina

    Friendlyjordies case: second man charged over alleged arson attack on YouTube personality’s home

  • Charlise Mutten murder trial: alleged killer tells court ‘I never touched her’ and denies drugging girl

  • Man charged with stabbing murder of 21-year-old surfer in Coffs Harbour

  • NSW knife laws allowing suspects to be scanned without a warrant could be ‘abused by police’

  • Charlise Mutten murder trial: alleged killer Justin Stein says he didn’t know schoolgirl’s body was on back of ute

  • Queensland woman Natasha Ryan remembered as more than just the ‘girl in the cupboard’

  • Police find remains of backpacker who went missing in Blue Mountains 23 years ago

  • The vague wording and risky assumptions that landed Labor in a deportation debacle

  • Labor minister denies direction 99 was a mistake and says community safety ‘number one priority’

May 2024

  • A dog hiding its face

    ‘Seeing her hurt was more than I could bear’: the family pets left in limbo amid Australia’s domestic violence crisis

  • Ariel Bombara says she is distraught and deeply sorry her father's violence claimed the lives of her mother's best friend Jennifer Petelczyc and her 18-year-old daughter Gretl in Floreat last week

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    Floreat killer Mark Bombara's daughter says police were warned about his behaviour and guns – video

  • Floral tributes outside the house of Jenny and Gretl Petelczyc in Perth.

    Perth double murder: WA police launch investigation after killer’s daughter claims officers ‘ignored’ warnings

  • Ariel Bombara said she spoke with police on several occasions to 'raise the alarm' about her father, including his access to guns

    2:35

    WA police launch investigation after daughter of Perth killer says warnings 'ignored' – video

  • Fewer than 10% of sexual assaults reported to NSW police end in a conviction, report finds

  • Perth killer of mother and daughter would have had fewer guns under proposed laws

  • Inequality reporting
    Public housing regularly being offered to people on NSW waitlist who have died

  • Sex crimes detective found guilty of sexually touching woman in NSW police station without her consent

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