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Coles is faces 54 per cent more crime and theft incidents in its Victorian shops than NSW.

Coles names Victoria as Australia’s supermarket theft capital

Other grocery retailers are also warning about a rise in shoplifting in the state, suggesting criminal organisations are becoming more brazen.

Yesterday

Sarah Abu Lebdeh and Ahmed Rashid Nadir arriving at court in Sydney.

Antisemitism video nurse turns up to court surrounded by dark-clad men

Key evidence allegedly showing two former nurses discussing killing Israeli patients will face a legal challenge, threatening their prosecution.

This Month

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton promised no cuts to frontline public services at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra.

Dutton wants deportation referendum to fix ‘restrictive’ Constitution

The opposition leader says spending as much as $450 million on a poll to give the government powers to expel criminal dual nationals would be value for money.

Victoria Premier Jacinta Allan and acting Police Commissioner Rick Nugent.

Victoria police reject Allan’s claim about CFMEU crackdown advice

Jacinta Allan said it was the acting police commissioner’s fault that she said a nine-month-old operation against thuggery in the construction industry was new.

Dutton backs US-style racketeering laws to tackle CFMEU

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton brands Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan’s response to reports of CFMEU and bikie misconduct on government projects as “a wet lettuce”.

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Ben Quilty’s ‘Australian Landscape Mazda 121’ was seized from a drug syndicate as an outworking of the Australian Federal Police’s Operation Fuji.

Whiteley, Quilty among artists collected by crime syndicate

Forget Lamborghinis or brass knuckles. This Melbourne drug syndicate preferred Australian paintings such as Ben Quilty’s Mazda 121, which has now made $73,621 for the Commonwealth.

The raids follow the Australian Federal Police setting up Operation Rye to investigate criminality in the CFMEU and construction industry.

AFP raids Melbourne properties in CFMEU investigation

Police have executed two search warrants in Melbourne as part of its investigation into criminality in the construction industry.

Dr George Foster at the Southern Sydney Synagogue daubed with a dozen Swastika signs.

Jewish community queries police on ‘bizarre’ antisemitic incidents

NSW Premier Chris Minns has defended labelling discovery of explosives at Dural terrorism, after accusations of “hyperbolic” and “kneejerk” response.

Rodrigo Duterte

Former Philippine leader Duterte arrested over drug killings

Rodrigo Duterte was arrested after arriving from Hong Kong and police took him into custody on orders of the International Criminal Court.

Police found explosives in a caravan near Dural, NSW.

Organised crime not antisemitism behind explosives, graffiti: police

Police believe one organised criminal was behind both the discovery of explosives in a caravan at Dural and multiple crimes directed at Sydney’s Jewish community.

Jetstar passenger Barry Clark (centre) and a pilot wrestle the armed teen to the floor of the plane.

Teen charged after dramatic Jetstar confrontation

Police were called to Avalon Airport near Geelong on Thursday afternoon following reports a male wielding a firearm had tried to board the flight.

The Australian Islamic House Masjid in Edmonson Park received the threat on its Instagram page.

Boy, 16 arrested after ‘abhorrent’ Sydney mosque threat

NSW Police say there is no “ongoing threat” to the community after a same-day arrest over an alleged threat against a religious centre at Edmondson Park in Sydney.

Police stand next to a damaged car, possibly the car used by the assailant who drove a car into pedestrians at Mannheim in western Germany.

One dead after driver rams car into crowd in Germany

German police say a driver drove into a group of people in Paradeplatz, a pedestrianised street in Mannheim, killing one person.

February

Companies across the economy are introducing powers to suspend or terminate accounts when financial abuse is suspected. 

Banks, insurers crack down on abusers using their products as weapons

Financial abuse is estimated to cost victims $5.7 billion every year – more than twice the amount of losses from scams.

This file image made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled “America,” by Maurizio Cattelan.

Theft of $8m golden loo from palace was done ‘in just 5 minutes’

The fully functioning loo, installed as an artwork at England’s Blenheim Palace, has never been recovered and is believed to have been split up and disposed of.

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Bruce Lehrmann outside court in Queensland in 2024.

Lehrmann charged with stealing a Toyota Prado in Tasmania

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann appeared by phone in a Hobart magistrate’s court and did not enter a plea to a charge of stealing a vehicle.

Justice Michael Lee has blamed university cancel culture for growing antisemitism.

Judge lets rip at intolerant universities as source of antisemitism

Justice Michael Lee blames antisemitism on cancel culture and intellectual conformity in universities.

Donald Trump’s Georgia mugshot.

Trump hangs his own mugshot in Oval Office

The photograph, taken after he was charged in Georgia on racketeering charges, has been mounted in a gold frame on a wall in the White House.

Mafia godfathers lament ‘miserable’ calibre of new recruits

The diminished crime bosses were caught on wiretaps criticising their ranks after Italian police made 150 arrests this week in a major mafia crackdown.

NSW Premier Chris Minns says tougher criminal penalties are needed to squash antisemitism.

NSW toughens laws on Nazi symbols and inciting hatred

Protests at places of worship and display of Nazi symbols at synagogues to be punishable by two years in prison under NSW hate speech crackdown.

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