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Australia’s 47th parliament recapped.

Albanese started his prime ministership on a high. Then in one month, things started to unravel

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Bound together: Kathryn Joy, Rebecca Burdon and Beverley Attard spent years searching for people with shared experience after their mothers were killed.

Years after their mothers were killed, these child survivors finally found each other

Trauma and tragedy linked these children who lost their mothers to domestic violence. They had to fight to find each other as adults.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Financial advisor Julie Dal Pra sectured pro bono help from 78 people to free Christine (in background) from her ex-husband’s fraudulent directorships, loans and tax debt in her name totalling $9.5 million.

Julie discovered an abuse victim’s ex had left the woman saddled with $12m in debt

It took 77 people working for free, and three years’ full-time work, to save a stay-at-home mother from a mountain of fraudulent business debts created by her ex-husband.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Lilie James’ mother described her as “beautiful, independent, intelligent, kind [and] loyal”.

‘This is a man who couldn’t cope’: Experts grapple with murder of Lilie James

Lilie James could not have known that Paul Thijssen would react with such violence to her decision to end their relationship.

  • Jordan Baker
Lilie James was more socially adroit than Thijssen.

‘I’m so sorry we couldn’t protect you’: Heartbreaking tribute from Lilie James’ mother

Confronting videos of Paul Thijssen preparing to kill his St Andrew’s Cathedral School colleague have been released by the inquest into both their deaths.

  • Jordan Baker
Repeat youth offenders are helping drive a rise in Victorian crime rates.

Repeat youth offenders drive crime rise

The latest Crime Statistics Agency data shows crimes committed by children aged 10 to 17 rose to their highest levels last year since electronic records began in 1993.

  • Brittany Busch and Kieran Rooney
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CCTV showed Paul Thijssen following James into the school bathroom with a hammer.

Fear, control and punishment. Why Paul Thijssen killed Lilie James

The St Andrew’s sports coach covered up his sense of inadequacy by “projecting an image of perfection”. But James challenged that facade when she rejected him, experts say.

  • Jordan Baker
Lilie James’ family says she was “vibrant, outgoing and very much loved”.

CCTV shows last minutes of Lilie James’ life

Paul Thijssen can be seen waiting with a hammer in his hand before entering a bathroom at St Andrew’s Cathedral School and killing the popular sports coach.

  • Jordan Baker
The body of Lilie James was found at St Andrew’s Cathedral School, Sydney.

Killer filmed rehearsing school attack day Lilie James was murdered

CCTV recorded Paul Thijssen going to the bathrooms next to the St Andrew’s Cathedral School gym and practising lunging through the doors of two of them.

  • Jordan Baker
Lilie James’ family says she was “vibrant, outgoing and very much loved”.

A bright future, a dark heart: Lilie James inquest to explore control, abuse

An inquest into the murder of Lilie James by her ex-boyfriend in the St Andrew’s gym is expected to explore domestic violence, coercive control and technology-facilitated abuse

  • Jordan Baker

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