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Crime - Australia

Latest news on crime in Australia from the Guardian

May 2024

  • Victim’s friend Jacqueline Schwarcz speaks to the media outside the Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne on Wednesday, May 22, 2024.

    Bodybuilder who violently murdered Melbourne woman in front of her children jailed for 31 years

  • Charlise Mutten

    Charlise Mutten murder accused claimed nine-year-old screamed out his name after mum shot her, court told

  • Missing Queensland woman Sharron Phillips

    Sharron Phillips case: missing Queensland woman’s death ‘suspicious’ but cause ‘undetermined’, inquest finds

  • Frank Zumbo

    Frank Zumbo avoids jail for indecent assaults that involved ‘cynical abuse’ of his position of power

  • ‘Not a significant possibility’ Chris Dawson innocent of his wife’s murder, court told

  • ‘We should all be furious’: Aboriginal people make up record 31% of adult prison population in NSW

  • Former Wallabies star’s wife plagued by ‘graphic memories’ of Brisbane home invasion

  • Chris Dawson loved wife Lynette and did not murder her, court told as appeal hearing begins

  • Behaviour programs can curb the cycle of domestic violence – so why are hundreds of Australian men on waiting lists?

  • Australian Politics
    Essential report: can Labor meet the demand for online safety protections? – Australian politics podcast

  • Australian couple sentenced to decades in prison for child sex abuse after using victims as ‘playthings’

  • Full Story
    Alleged mushroom murders: Erin Patterson faces court – Full Story podcast

  • Two charged with murder after allegedly torturing Brisbane man at Queensland property

  • As Australia screams for action against lethal male violence, this is a culture war for survival

    Van Badham
  • Queensland Labor’s lurch to the right on youth justice shows a government that’s lost principles and perspective

  • Steven Miles

    Queensland’s $1.28bn community safety plan includes transporting detained children for schooling

  • Back and yellow bags

    Three men charged after 500kg of cocaine worth $160m seized in Queensland

  • Police tape

    Teenager charged with murdering sister, 10, after alleged stabbing in NSW home

    Seventeen-year-old girl due to face court after incident near Newcastle with police saying death is ‘hard to imagine’
  • Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attends a rally to a call for action to end violence against women, in Canberra

    Full Story
    Jess Hill on what it will take to stop men killing women – Full Story podcast

    Journalist and coercive control educator Jess Hill speaks to Nour Haydar
  • Mother comforting son

    Almost 30% spike in rate of Australian women killed by intimate partner last year, data shows

    Sharp rise in 2022-23 from previous year despite 30-year downward trend
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