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Dutton says Labor is failing on crime. Here’s what the numbers say

The opposition leader made law and order a key feature of his campaign. But is criminality increasing, and do Australians care enough to change their vote?

UK comedian Russell Brand attending the the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last year.

Russell Brand charged with rape, sexual assault by British prosecutors

The English actor and comedian has been charged with five counts of rape and assault stemming from incidents with four women between 1999 and 2005.

Tony Mokbel walks free from court on Friday after almost 18 years behind bars.

Tony Mokbel walking free caps another bad week for Jacinta Allan

Wearing a big smile and an ankle bracelet, one of Australia’s most notorious gangland figures was granted bail after 18 years in prison.

Attorney-General Pam Bondi has ordered prosecutors to seek the death penalty for accused killer Luigi Mangione.

Death penalty sought for Luigi Mangione

The case represents the first time the Justice Department has decided to seek the death penalty during President Donald Trump’s second term.

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Spanish Civil Guard General Alfonso Lopez Malo, second right, and Portuguese Police Director Luis Neves, left, speak during a news conference at the Portuguese police headquarters in Lisbon.

Submarine carrying tonnes of cocaine seized in Atlantic

Spanish authorities, who tipped off the Portuguese, said it was the first time a drug-running semi-submersible had been intercepted in the open sea.

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The four-part Netflix series about a 13-year-old boy who kills a schoolmate.

Why everyone in Britain is talking about Netflix’s Adolescence

The show has captured how British society is grappling with what it means to be a boy when the loudest voices defining masculine identity belong to Andrew Tate and Donald Trump.

Bill Pallot in 2016. The expert on 18th-century French furniture admitted that he and his co-accused, Bruno Desnoues, had forged the chairs from scratch.

Tax inspectors busted art expert’s $7.7m forgery scam

Bill Pallot, an expert on 18th-century French furniture, is accused of running a counterfeit operation between 2008 and 2015.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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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.

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