Law, Crime and Justice

Bruce Lehrmann will try to convince the Federal Court to delay his payment of costs for his failed defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson.

A Federal Court judge has ruled there isn't enough evidence to prove the controversial weedkiller, Roundup causes cancer.

A Hobart man was sentenced to 26 years in prison for the brutal murder of his former wife on Christmas Day in 2021.

Queensland Truth-telling and healing Inquiry chair Joshua Creamer explains the terms of references for the inquiry.

Amid the violence in Alice Springs that's contributed to two curfews there have been conversations around the role of "payback". But some Indigenous leaders say payback has nothing to do with the recent fighting.

A former financial planner who stole $3.3 million from his clients to fund his sports betting addiction writes to the prime minister from his prison cell, urging him to adopt the recommendations made by a parliamentary inquiry into online gambling harm.

Andrew Barr says the LGBTQI+ community feels under threat in the wake of recent homophobic attacks on men in Canberra.

A Hobart man who stabbed his ex-wife to death at her home on Christmas Day has been sentenced to 26 years in prison.

The former boss of WA's Department of Justice says the death of an Aboriginal teenager in youth detention was preventable and apologises to his mother for the failure. WARNING: This story discusses incidents of self-harm and contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died.

The peak body for NT hospitality says police have used emergency powers to shut down venues for 48 hours with little evidence of wrongdoing.

The principal of a regional Victorian school left reeling from a deepfake nude-sharing photo incident has called for urgent federal government action to protect other children.

As Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington DC to meet with Joe Biden and address the US Congress, families of those kidnapped on October 7 are frustrated that the Israeli leader is wasting time, delaying a hostage deal to bring their loved ones home.

A new juvenile detention centre is set to open in October with inmates from the infamous Don Dale youth justice centre to be relocated.

French police are investigating an incident involving a 25-year-old Australian woman who was allegedly attacked by five men.

Police allege the second person charged after a hit-and-run of a mother was involved in planning the attack with his partner, who has also been charged.

Authorities arrest an American man over the fatal stabbing of a Perth man during a holiday to Thailand.

Prominent anti-whaling campaigner and veteran environmental activist Paul Watson has been detained on an Interpol Red Notice in Greenland. 

Stella Assange shares the first photo of the WikiLeaks founder and their children since his release from a British jail last month.

Kiesha Thompson, 23, had just dropped her daughter at daycare when she was hit, and died in hospital that night. 

A gunman has entered an aged care facility in central Croatia and opened fire, killing six people including his own mother and wounding several others.

Wendy Sym collapsed in the dock after the sentence was handed down in the Supreme Court in Perth.

The officer who was in charge on the night a teenager was found unresponsive in his cell at a controversial WA juvenile detention facility is excused from giving evidence at the inquest into the boy's death. WARNING: This story discusses incidents of self-harm and contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died.

CCTV shows the car moments before the alleged hit-and-run murder.

The alleged driver — 24-year-old Larissa Rita Mae-Leigh Sant — has been charged with one count of murder.

Police will allege a 47-year-old north Queensland man assaulted six women and children known to him between 1998 and 2023.