Exposed at last: Sex offender secrecy laws overturned
Decades of automatic anonymity for alleged paedophiles, rapists and sex offenders – and the 18-year battle to name and shame them – have ended as new SA laws finally come into effect.
Crime In Focus
Mass killer should ‘rot in jail until he dies’
Queensland’s worst mass killer Robert Paul Long has been a “model” prisoner catering for geriatric criminals and is eligible for parole within weeks, it can be revealed.
Childers backpacker murderer in line for parole
Robert Paul Long – the man responsible for lighting the fire at the Childers Palace Backpackers in 2000 that led to 15 deaths – will be eligible for parole within weeks.
Aussie mum set to walk from Bali jail
Sara Connor will be released from Bali’s horrific Kerobokan jail after spending four years behind bars for the fatal bashing of a police officer.
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Aussie plane ‘target of terror plot’
An Australian domestic airline was reportedly the target of the so-called Islamic State “Barbie bombers” who planned to blow the aircraft up.
Crooked cops: Australia’s good guys gone bad
Many were celebrated as crime-busting top cops, but with rap sheets ranging from bribery and drugs rip-offs to armed robbery and murder, they were as bad as, if not worse than, the crims we expected them to catch.
Humpy hermit’s horror mass murder plot
Reclusive anti-abortionist Peter James Knight gathered an Armageddon-style arsenal at his bush humpy then rode his bicycle from deep inside a NSW forest all the way to Melbourne, ready to kill as many as possible to deliver his chilling message.
Politicians warned of crime lords’ selfie trick
Long before Australia’s political leaders were warned about agents of influence from China, police had detected another worrying threat.
Shocking $5 million RSL rorts exposed
A forensic police probe into the RSL veterans’ group has uncovered up to $5 million in alleged misappropriated charity dollars, spent on dinners, holidays and suits, as a whistleblower reveals more.
Milat secures top dollar in macabre trade
True crime fans are shelling out hundreds of dollars for serial killer keepsakes as bizarre as pubic hair and death scene dirt in a growing online marketplace dominated by names such as Ivan Milat, Charles Manson and Snowtown murder accomplice Mark Haydon.
Pokies penchant hands himself in over child sex crimes
An alleged sexual predator from Slovenia with a penchant for pokie machines has handed himself in to police in New South Wales overnight.
Ice ‘tsunami’ disaster averted after billion-dollar cartel bust
Two Sydney men have allegedly been caught up in the biggest ice haul in United States history with cops stopping a whopping $1.29 billion worth of the drugs bound for Australia.
Bikie pulls gun on rival in random altercation
A former Finks bikie has pleaded guilty to pulling a shot gun on an ex-Hells Angels after he unknowingly appeared at his unit to help install an airconditioner.
‘Sledgehammer blow’: Dance festival trial dropped
The trial against officials and organisers of a techno music festival in Germany that led to the stampede deaths of 21 people including an Australian woman has been dropped, leaving victims’ families in shock.
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