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David MurrayNational Crime Correspondent

David Murray is The Australian’s National Crime Correspondent. He was previously Crime Editor at The Courier-Mail and prior to that was News Corp’s London-based Europe Correspondent. He is behind investigative podcasts The Lighthouse and Searching for Rachel Antonio and is the author of The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay.

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Child abuse Royal Commission. Pic of former Knox student Scott Ashton with lawyer Leigh Johnson and friend Gretel Pinninger outside Governor Macquarie Tower today. Ashton was abused when he was a student at Knox

Lawyer kept mum on $30m fraud

Lawyer Leigh Johnson stayed silent about conman Peter Foster’s involvement in a fraudulent $29.6m sports gambling scheme.

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Foreign Affairs

A large amount of crystal meth that has a blue color like the TV show Breaking Bad. The crystals are spilled out across a table. The image is vertical (stock image).

Drug war like ‘whack a mole’

AFP success in disrupting ice manufacturers in China has pushed the problem into neighbouring Myanmar.

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The Nation

Former Lawyer Tim Meehan appears at court Photographer Philip Norrish

Disgraced lawyer struck off

Former criminal lawyer Tim Meehan’s fall from grace is complete. Released from jail in December, he’s now banned from practising law.

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15th February 2019.Jasmine Robson, managing director of the Grosvenor topless bar and strip club.Photo: Glenn Hunt

Sleaze quota the question as strip club goes for bust

The red-light past of Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley is staging a comeback, with two new clubs planned for a block that already has four.

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Foreign Affairs

Footballer and refugee Hakeem Al Araibi at a friendly soccer match at the playing fields at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, February 14, 2019. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Chief denies cops blew whistle on Araibi

Andrew Colvin seeks to clear the AFP for alerting Thailand to footballer Hakeem al-Araibi’s illegitimate Interpol red notice.

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Former Port Macquarie High School student Debra Hood and (insets) during her school days.

Students ‘groomed and seduced’ by teachers

Ex-students of Port Macquarie High say they were “targeted, groomed and seduced’’ into sexual relationships with teachers.

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The Nation

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Alcohol let-off for father

A father appears to have been let off for drink-driving by a police officer before being found dead in his car with his baby son.

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The Nation

Aussie agents help US sting to bust Afghan ‘drug trafficker’

Undercover Australian agents have helped the US bust an accused Afghan heroin trafficker.

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The Nation

The six month old baby killed in a horrific suspected murder suicide has been identified as little William.

Cops told about dad’s behaviour: family

Police were repeatedly alerted to a father’s behaviour prior to his suspected murder of his six-month-old son, relatives say.

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The Nation

Two bodies have been found in a red car at Roys Road, Coochin.Police have revealed that domestic violence led to the death of a six-month-old boy after he was murdered by his 46 year old father.

Man and child found dead in car

A six-month-old baby found dead in a car with his father in a suspected murder-suicide was reported missing two days earlier.

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