Law, Crime and Justice

An internal AFP investigation has ended after 12 months but the protester says the incident is still taking a toll on his quality of life.

A man charged over the death of Steven Murphy, whose remains were found in an underground bunker at a property in Adelaide's north, has pleaded not guilty to murder but has admitted to killing the victim.

An internal police investigation recommends no criminal charges be laid against the arresting officer of protester Hamid Sotounzadeh, who fell and suffered serious injuries, including rib fractures and spinal disc protrusions during the arrest.

A Taekwondo instructor is expected to be charged with three counts of murder after three bodies were discovered.

Mark Haydon, who was found guilty of assisting the killers, has been granted parole with conditions and is expected to go to a pre-release centre.

Mr Smirnov allegedly admitted officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved in passing on a story to him about Hunter Biden, and his contacts with them were "recent and extensive".

Julian Assange's supporters have gathered outside the court as the WikiLeaks founder makes a last-ditch legal attempt to avoid extradition to the US.  

Mark Haydon, who was convicted of seven counts of assisting the Snowtown murderers, will be sent to the Adelaide pre-release centre after being granted parole.

Authorities believe he had been living in Spain with a Ukrainian passport under a different name. 

Stewart Iain Berry was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy and producing child exploitation material.

A criminal trial is set to open over the handwritten lyrics to the Eagles' legendary hit Hotel California.

Ruby Franke, who once gave advice to millions on YouTube, could serve up to 60 years in prison. 

The Queensland government has extended a program which sends serial repeat offenders to remote locations in a bid to address the state's youth crime issues and take pressure off the juvenile detention system.

Handing in her resignation at the airport as the police minister was about to fly out is arguably the very definition of a shock announcement, but speculation about Katarina Carroll's future has been rife in recent weeks.

Adviser to the Australian Assange campaign Greg Barns SC urges Australia to do more in WikiLeaks founder Julian’s Assange final bid to avoid extradition.

Additional Papua New Guinean police will be sent into the country's highlands after a tribal massacre killed dozens of men.

Queensland's Police commissioner Katarina Carroll has announced her shock resignation, insisting it was her decision to finish up earlier in the role.

The South Australia Parole Board is poised to make a decision on whether to release Snowtown murder accomplice Mark Haydon from prison.

Crime scenes have been established after the bodies of a woman and a child were found in North Parramatta while the body of a man was discovered in Baulkham Hills. 

Queensland's voluntary assisted dying (VAD) process is being probed by a coroner after an elderly man took an oral substance, which was prescribed for his terminally ill wife.

Dozens of suspects were indicted in the 122-page report issued by Walther Wesser Voltaire, the fifth judge to lead the investigation after previous ones stepped down for reasons including fear of being killed.

A close up of the city of Kharp in Russia.

South Australia's parole board is considering an application to release Snowtown accomplice Mark Ray Haydon, on the same day the state government has rushed legal changes through parliament.

The body of a man was located in Baulkham Hills, while two other bodies, a woman and a child, were found inside a martial arts studio in North Parramatta.

Only 4 km separates the top end of Australia’s island chain and Papua New Guinea. These waters have been trade routes for thousands of years, but now more nefarious cargo is being taken across. Increasingly Methamphetamine and cocaine are being smuggled across the narrow strait. Locals are worried about the growing risk of hard drugs in their tiny island communities- but without other available revenue streams it is a seemingly attractive proposition. PNG correspondent Tim Swanston has the story.