A family-owned freight empire has collapsed with debts of more than $116 million,as the liquidator and creditors accuse its high-flying director of repeated breaches of his duties.
Anthony Del Vecchio was sent free tickets and push alerts to keep gambling,sometimes up to $20,000 a day,as he fed a voracious addiction with stolen money from family and friends.
Australians now make up almost half the punting positions on American college football teams,but a Melbourne company has been accused of helping them game the system.
A lack of police presence at the airport meant officers had to race nine kilometres to arrest a teenager who claimed to be carrying a bomb on board a Jetstar flight.
A 17-year-old boy allegedly boarded a Jetstar plane armed with a long-arm firearm,ammunition and a fake bomb,a court has heard.
By the time Daniel Defina realised he was looking at a shotgun,shearer Barry Clark and a Jetstar pilot had already leapt into action.
Melbourne casino uses a method of banning patrons that bypasses regulatory oversight,despite explicit warnings from the gambling watchdog.
Greg Barclay was sexually assaulted by a Marist brother in 1970,but his quest for compensation has been blocked by a controversial High Court judgment that found the Catholic Church was not legally responsible for the misconduct of its clerics.
Rick Nugent said he had already spoken to the state government about bail laws and is confident they will be tightened.
The 90-year-old disgraced Catholic priest Gerald Ridsdale had been in prison since 1994 for sexually abusing more than 70 children.