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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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Brisbane Magistrates Court Jean Ellen Madden appears in court on charges relating to her charity Street Swags Photographer Philip Norrish NO BY LINE

Charges for charity founder

Former Queensland Young Australian of the Year Jean Madden is to face new fraud charges, just months after seven were dropped.

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Supplied undated image obtained Saturday, March 10, 2018 of two women, who, as part of a group, are accused of distracting shop attendants while their children put stolen items in a pram in southeast Queensland. Queensland police are searching for a group of Irish tourists accused of running a number of scams in the state's southeast. Brisbane and Gold Coast police have received 12 complaints about the group of nine men and women. (AAP Image/Queensland Police) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Irish crime tourists take flight

About 20 Irish tourists with suspected links to a Queensland crime spree have slipped out of the country.

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Two women who are allegedly part of the group of scammers.Photo: Queensland Police Service

Prams in scams of ‘Irish’ gangs

The Australian Border Force has joined police in the hunt for Irish scammers including pram-wielding mothers.

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Donna Steele, 42, whose body was found in a creek west of Cooktown.

DNA, shoes led to accused

The unlikely accused killer of Cooktown mother Donna Steele allegedly made at least two major mistakes.

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The Nation

Charge for mother’s murder

Police allege a Cooktown woman was murdered in a botched robbery and have linked a man’s DNA to the crocodile-infested creek where she was found.

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Cooktown woman Donna Steele, 42, whose body was found at Leggett's Crossing on Sunday.

Breakthrough in hunt for mother’s killer

Police have revealed they have a person of interest and ‘credible’ information to solve Donna Steele’s murder.

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The Nation

Breakthrough in mum’s murder

Police reveal they are focusing on a prime “person of interest” in the murder of Cooktown mum Donna Steele.

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‘They think I made Paddy pies’

Paddy Moriarty was last seen dragging a dead kangaroo by its tail; NT pie shop owner says cops accused her over his disappearance.

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22/2/2018: Saint StephenÕs College Principal Jamie Dorrington outside the school gates today, Upper Coomera, Gold Coast. Seven teenagers were hospitalised, four in a critical condition, after a mass drug overdose at the prestigious Gold Coast school yesterday. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

School boys’ ‘experiment’ with drug

Seven students hospitalised after a mass overdose were ‘boundary pushing’ in a dangerous experiment, police say.

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Signage outside Saint Stephen's College at Upper Coomera, Gold Coast, Thursday, February 22, 2018. Six boys were taken to Gold Coast University hospital yesterday after they were found to be unwell after taking an unknown substance. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

‘Powdered’ drug behind overdose

Police are calling for students at an elite Gold Coast school to come forward as their peers remain in critical condition after a mass overdose.

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