Law, Crime and Justice

A 26-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder, after a three-month-old baby was found with what police say appeared to be a stab wound to the abdomen.

Queensland police allege a 43-year-old woman was taken from a property in Doolandella on Friday afternoon by a group of men and assaulted, before being driven to Forest Lake.

Authorities say the chances of Abdul Ezedi surviving after disappearing on London's Chelsea Bridge are "extremely remote".

The "unsatisfactory" investigation into the 2021 home invasion contributed to the suspect being found not guilty, according to the judge's decision handed down last year. 

Police say the 23-year-old man entered the river near Uriarra Crossing bridge yesterday evening and failed to resurface. His body was found three hours later.

Police ask the public for help to identify those who smashed the machines' windows, tore off doors and wrecked internal fittings. 

The centres have only been able to help fewer than 1 per cent of people who reach out.

Michael Katsidis, who won the WBO interim lightweight championship in 2007, will walk free from custody after serving nearly two years in jail.

The daughter of a 70-year-old woman who was stabbed to death in a shopping centre car park, says her mother "loved everybody" and urged people not to "judge the whole community by a couple of bad apples".

Around 180,000 people were helped by Australia's community legal centres last year — but even more people were turned away from the service.

Star Entertainment Group and the Queensland government have been accused of lacking transparency for not releasing the casino giant’s full remediation plan to the public, while the Queen's Wharf project has been delayed again.

The victim's widower says he fears the notorious recidivist, who is now in his 40s, will reoffend again.

Melissa Oates says she heard a "bang" and "panicked", but insists she had no idea she had struck her partner with her vehicle at high speed while he walked home late at night. But an inquest into Jari Wise's 2020 death has heard evidence at odds with her account.

Andrei Medvedev, who fought in Ukraine as part of the Wagner mercenary group, fled to Norway across its Arctic border with Russia in January 2023.

An ambulance spokesman says the students reportedly ingested an unknown substance from a bag, and paramedics arrived to find one of the teens vomiting.

A federal appeals court rules that Donald Trump does not have immunity from charges that he plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

The Queensland Premier says he will take advice from police and experts on any future law changes.

For many Malaysians, the reduced punishment for disgraced former leader Najib Razak is seen as the ultimate betrayal, with authorities appearing to go soft on a corrupt 70-year-old whose ill-gotten gains once helped fund a Hollywood movie.

An interstate magistrate will be called in to hear a criminal case involving Tasmanian Supreme Court judge Gregory Geason. Justice Geason has pleaded not guilty to charges of common assault, and emotional abuse or intimidation. 

A young Tasmanian man who accused his then-girlfriend of cheating on him, then subjected her to 48 hours of horrific abuse, is sentenced to a decade in prison.

A year on from the return of alcohol bans in Aboriginal town camps and communities, progress on alcohol-related harm and violence remains an uphill battle.

The independent review will first assess how the ACT has acted on previous recommendations and then offer practical measures to reduce Indigenous incarceration rates. 

An investigation is underway after the body of a motorcycle rider was found on the M1 Motorway.

Police have described the attack in Redbank Plains as a 'cowardly' and 'abhorent' crime.

While major supermarkets can boost security, options are limited for small businesses to combat theft.