As Melbourne’s avalanche of aggravated burglaries turns the city into a version of Johannesburg, residents in some affluent suburbs are considering shock tactics to zap the bad guys into rethinking their intentions.
Hughie Wilson’s ugly end is not well known outside the district where he lived and died. What happened to the World War II veteran still hangs over Colac and Victoria Police, a shameful chapter in the history of both.
It’s been a while since we’ve heard much from Latrobe Valley identity Kenny Penfold, but social media posts doing the rounds have brought him back to mind for some locals.
When Cam Stuart saw a photo of the man who had been arrested over the deaths of campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay, he knew his face. They had shared a campsite almost two decades before — and the encounter was chilling.
This inner-Melbourne knock shop has gone all in on the old adage “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach”.
Outlaw motorcycle gangs are a ruthless racket rigged to favour the powerful, manipulative and greedy — and the lowest in the ranks are expendable pawns. The bitter truth is, it’s tough at the bottom.
Even the Prime Minister felt the need to ignore the absence of facts and join media and human rights groups in branding the killing of Indigenous Perth teenager Cassius Turvey as racist. Years on, a different narrative has emerged.
For every long-range arrest set up overseas — after many years and much money — plenty of fugitives remain one step ahead of the law and out of reach.
The pigskin had barely been thrown in anger when these two AFL greats started the party — none too subtly — in a toilet cubicle at a Melbourne Super Bowl party.
After their son allegedly drove a stolen car straight at police, it is a measure of this couple’s desperation that they see jail as their child’s best chance of surviving the drug-fuelled lunacy that took over his life, and theirs.
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