Violence
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Jacinta Allan joins calls for Noah Balta to sit out of football until his sentencing
Balta won’t return to the Richmond senior side this weekend, and Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan wants him to sit out until he is sentenced for his attack on a man in NSW.
- Roy Ward and Rachel Eddie
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After ‘Adolescence’: How a TV show made Britain confront its problem with lost boys
Boys are falling into a dangerous world full of anger and entitlement, experts say, and it shouldn’t take a TV show to stop it.
- Rob Harris
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- Perth
Perth school, dad speak as student attacked at shops still in hospital
The school has released a statement, as the distraught father of the teen allegedly coward-punched and head-stomped at a suburban shopping centre asks for justice.
- Rebecca Peppiatt
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- Domestic violence
‘I did it to put you in jail’: Tax system is ‘weaponised’ to harm partners, ombudsman finds
Victims often became aware they owed significant amounts only when they received penalty notices, and they usually had to pay the debts.
- Wendy Tuohy
‘Extreme violence’: Threats against politicians soar
Female politicians face especially troubling threats of sexual violence in the increasingly febrile political environment, the AFP chief has said.
- Matthew Knott
Grandfather of killer teen gives heartbreaking account of ‘everyday sadness’ at losing his daughter
A grandfather’s simple gesture in the Supreme Court drives home the agony this family now endures. His daughter is dead, and his grandson faces years behind bars for murder.
- Erin Pearson
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- Building Bad
Bashed, harassed and black-banned: CFMEU sides with bikies, not women
The union has admitted it let women down in its response to violence as shocking examples of mistreatment emerge.
- Nick McKenzie, Sarah Danckert and Amelia Ballinger
‘It’s a widespread, toxic culture’: Isla Bell’s mother calls for justice
The family of the 19-year-old Brunswick woman who was allegedly murdered have called for media reporting on victims to be more sensitive to the impact on loved ones.
- Wendy Tuohy
Most sexual assaults are never pursued by police. Here’s how the system could change
Australia’s top law reform agency wants all police, prosecutors and defence lawyers to go through mandatory training on rape myths, in one of several steps to reform a failing justice system.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
Pair charged over brutal Bunnings car park stabbing were on bail for another stabbing
Magistrate Brett Sonnet described CCTV footage of the incident as “absolutely outrageous” and “emblematic of cowardly conduct”.
- Melissa Cunningham
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