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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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Approximately 88 kilograms of heroin and 21 kilograms of methamphetamine at the AFP Sydney Office today. The drugs have been seized by the Joint Organised Crime Group and two men have been arrested.(Pics Justin Lloyd)

Cocaine HQ: Top cops exposed to illicit drugs

AFP officers have potentially been exposed to a string of illicit drugs after an urgent audit revealed headquarters in five states were contaminated.

National

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 19: Chief of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) General Angus Campbell delivers the findings from the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry on November 19, 2020 in Canberra, Australia. A landmark report has shed light on alleged war crimes by Australian troops serving in Afghanistan. (Photo by Mick Tsikas - Pool/Getty Images)

Special Investigator who will lead war crimes inquiry named

The Morrison government has announced who will head the criminal inquiry into alleged war crimes by Australian Special Forces soldiers.

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EMBARGO MONDAY 14 DEC/ NO NEWS.COM/NO THE AUSTRALIAN/NO THE WEST AUSTRALIAN/ NO SKY NEWS --- PIcture: Matrix for News Corp Australia 12 DECEMBER 2020 SYDNEY AUWWW.MATRIXPICTURES.COM.AUEXCLUSIVE PICTURES on Assignment for News LimitedMaywand Osman, a former terror accused, who was granted parole after being detained in Operation Appleby anti-terror raids in September 2014, but was released after serving five-years for affray and reckless bodily harm offences which expired two weeks ago. The State Parole Authority and the Attorney General attempted to have his parole quashed, as Osman had been reportedly convicted of breaching a federal control order, a terrorism-related-offence and the Government was seeking to have new orders on Osman under the Terrorism High Offenders Act 2017 before his release was granted. Osman is seen looking 'beefed up' from his 2014 physique and he was seen walking in Marsfield this morning.Note: All editorial images subject to the following: For editorial use only. Additional clearance required for commercial, wireless, internet or promotional use.Images may not be altered or modified. Matrix Media Group makes no representations or warranties regarding names, trademarks or logos appearing in the images.

Former terror accused released from jail

A man once accused of being involved in one of Australia’s most high-profile terror plots has been released after time in the notorious Supermax jail.

NSW

Tip-off twist: Amber Sceats’ stepdad quizzed over cocaine hell

The stepfather of jewelry designer to the stars and socialite Amber Sceats has been questioned about his time on death row in Singapore and who may have set him up.

Crime in Focus

EXCLUSIVE NETWORK NEWS PREMIUM LOCKED CONTENT, NO NEWS.COM, NO SKY, NO WEST AUS, NO AUS, Border Force officers and currency sniffer dogs have caught thousands of people in the past few years illegally smuggling currency in and out of Australia.

Billion-dollar bags of ‘dirty cash’ masking crims

Bags bulging with billions of dollars in cash are crisscrossing Australia’s international borders in ways that may actually be masking criminal activity.

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Global Business and Talent Attraction Taskforce Picture: Linkedin

Migrants exploit talent visa loophole to get to Australia

A talent visa program has been exposed as a farce, where migrants don’t need to speak English, have a job and are not required to work once in Australia.

EXCLUSIVENational

Solicitor Peter O'Brien and the two Indonesian boys who received compensation for unlawful arrest and false imprisonment.Picture: Supplied

Millions paid out by police for botched prosecutions

A high-profile union official, Indonesian teenagers and a dozen more have been paid millions in compensation by Australian police.

True Crime

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos NOVEMBER 23, 2020: A correctional officer is seen with a drug sniffer dog inspecting the maximum security cells during the official opening of the Dillwynia Correctional Centre in Windsor. Australia's largest women's prison focusing on education, work skills and programs and home to 531 women after the expansion, in Sydney Australia. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

205 Aussie crims still go to jail every day

New data has revealed 205 Australians are being jailed every day on average. See which state has the highest and lowest number of prisoners.

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Sydney man’s threat to kill woman and her baby

A man from Sydney’s west faces jail after using threats, coercion and deception to force a woman and child to leave Australia in a bid to revoke her visa.

UPDATEDNational

Union takes swipe at AFP after raids

Three high-ranking union officials with the NSW branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union have had their their homes searched during early morning police raids.

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