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A protester damages a Waymo vehicle at Los Angeles St. and Arcadia in Los Angeles, CA on June 8, 2025.

Nine reporter caught up in LA protests as governor hits out at Trump

US correspondent Lauren Tomasi was reporting on a situation she said was rapidly deteriorating when she was shot in the leg by a rubber bullet.

  • John Gittelsohn and Alicia A. Caldwell

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Fireworks explode over riot police officers on the Champs-Elysees avenue after the Champions League final soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan.

Two dead, hundreds arrested in France as ‘barbarians’ spoil Champions League party

Violent scenes broke out during celebrations for Paris Saint-Germain’s historic soccer victory.

Safe Steps CEO Chelsea Tobin inside ‘Sanctuary’, which temporarily houses women and children experiencing family violence.

New high-security shelters for women in crisis to sit empty during family violence epidemic

Hundreds of women and children facing mortal danger will miss out on refuge housing and services as a funding stoush continues.

  • Wendy Tuohy
The number of staff who are leaving and attributing their departure to violence and physical safety has been increasing for the last three or four years.

Perth high school mass suspends students over filming, watching brawl

WAtoday understands up to 27 students were suspended after two students were involved in a fight on school grounds.

  • Holly Thompson
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Boys from four schools were asked to submit questions too awkward to ask

Brisbane schoolboys were asked to submit the questions they wanted answered. The result: a new app that gives them advice on relationships, respect, sex and consent.

  • Courtney Kruk
Safe Steps chief executive Chelsea Tobin.

‘Invisible victims’: Calls for reform as family violence system fails children

The nation’s leading family violence prevention advocates and experts have warned that vulnerable children are falling through cracks and desperately need their own tailored services.

  • Grant McArthur
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Pasawm Lyhym died after being stabbed in Sunshine earlier this month.

Judge sheds tears as teen killer faces 13 years’ jail for stabbing schoolboy

In the moments before Pasawm Lyhym was murdered near a busy Melbourne train station he desperately tried to protect himself with a nearby shopping trolley.

  • Melissa Cunningham
Anthony Albanese approached by an alt-right protester.

I’ve followed our leaders for 10 elections now. Society is getting angrier

Protesters have always been liable to get angry. But the police presence during this election campaign shows that anger is getting worse.

  • Shane Wright
Noah Balta at Richmond training earlier this year.

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
Owen Cooper stars as 13-year-old Jamie Miller in Adolescence. The series illustrates how vulnerable young boys can be when they fall under the influence of toxic masculinity.

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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