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Natalie O’Brien is a multi-award winning career journalist who has worked around Australia covering some of the country’s biggest stories from government coverups to sex trafficking, immigration, the environment, police, courts and crime. She was the first Investigations Editor appointed on The Australian Newspaper and was awarded a highly commended award in the Walkley Awards for her story Children Overboard Didn’t Happen. Contact her on natalie.obrien@news.com.au

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Dramatic arrest of potato chip smuggler caught on camera

Fingerprints and surveillance footage helped unmask a criminal mastermind trafficking Australian native animals. WARNING: GRAPHIC

VideoNational

EXCLUSIVE TO NWK NEWS NO NEWS.COM, NO WEST AUS, NO AUS Kylie Moore-Gilbert before her arrest, at a shrine in Iran, from Sky News world exclusive Escape From Iran.

Kylie Moore-Gilbert: How I learned my husband betrayed me

Kylie Moore-Gilbert has revealed how she feared something was wrong with her marriage while in an Iranian prison, and how she finally learned the truth.

ExclusiveCrime in Focus

The team at IDCare scanning the Dark Net looking for Australian passports and driver licences for sale.

Undercover cop’s splurge on Aussie identities

An AFP officer spent six months undercover snapping up Aussie ids on the Dark Web where drivers’ licences sell for as little as $2.

True Crime

‘Cracking down’: Aussie animals face new protection

Australian wildlife is set to be DNA tracked after an inquiry into the exportation of endangered parrots to a dodgy German dealer.

ExclusivePolice & Courts

WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. MUST TALK WITH PIC ED JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING - Copy photo of "Officer H" when he was part of the NSW Police Force. Picture: Tim Hunter.

Bikie-busting cop sues after being target of unlawful sting

He took on the Nomad and Rebel bikies and gangs shooting up Sydney’s south-west. But in the end he was unlawfully targeted by his own kind.

PicturesCrime in Focus

Exotic animal bust: Asphyxiated reptiles in stockings, plastic

Australia’s answer to Joe Exotic has been jailed for attempting to smuggle native and exotic animals overseas. This is how they got busted.

SA News

A screenshot taken from a video of a teenager being rearrested outside the Youth Court in Adelaide, Tuesday, August 22, 2017. Three teenagers have been released and then re-arrested over a fatal hit and run which claimed the life of Lucy Paveley at suburban Parafield. (AAP Image/Tim Dornin) NO ARCHIVING

More SA teen offenders charged

South Australia has seen more youths charged with serious crimes. Experts say jail time might not stop them all.

True Crime

Police arrest a teen on the street next to Camperdown park in Newtown, There looked to be a large number of teens drinking in Camperdown park and Camperdown Cemetery. 17th July, 2020. Picture by Damian Shaw

Rise in teen killers as NSW youth crimes revealed

Australia has seen a rise in teenage killers, but NSW has its share of youths charged with serious crimes. Experts say jail time might not stop them all.

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Moomba. Police keep an eye out for possible trouble between rival youth gangs around Flinders Street station and Federation Square.Some were detained by police. Picture : Ian Currie

Rise in teen killers as Victorian youth crimes revealed

Australia has seen a rise in teenage killers, but Victoria has its share of youths charged with serious crimes. Experts say jail time might not stop them all.

ExclusiveTrue Crime

2017 schoolies festival Sunday night activities on the Gold Coast - Police arrest a schoolies reveller who had a bit to much to drink Picture AAP/David Clark

Rise in teen killers as Queensland youth crimes revealed

Australia has seen a rise in teenage killers, but Queensland has its share of youths charged with serious crimes. Experts say jail time might not stop them all.

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