Tensions have boiled over as the opposition cut short a “farce” briefing with the government on the proposed new bail laws, leaving Labor with an uphill battle to rush through the legislation.
An animal shelter worker who tried to sell two human toes online for $400 after they were vomited up by dogs had previously sold a stillborn kitten and puppy via a Facebook “skull and bone” enthusiast group.
Families of some of the state’s most high-profile victims of violence want prisoners to be stripped of a controversial perk that can shave more than a year off their minimum sentences.
The Adass Israel Synagogue would be rebuilt with beefed-up security measures to prevent future attacks under a $35m pledge from Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.
A junior basketball game has erupted into violence for the second time in 12 months, with children left watching on from the sidelines as adults brawled.
Lunar taskforce police have conducted raids on Kazem Hamad’s illicit tobacco syndicate, seizing weapons and arresting several people allegedly involved in tobacco shop extortions.
A young man stabbed to death after being set upon by up to 10 men armed with machetes at Marriott Waters Shopping Centre has been remembered as a kind son with an “infectious sense of humour”.
A Canadian tourist has detailed how be was “sucker punched” so hard his shoes fell off, one of at least six random attacks on city pedestrians over the Melbourne Grand Prix.
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