Police fear the human rights charter is a hurdle for bikie reforms

Police fear the human rights charter is a hurdle for bikie reforms

Law enforcement agencies are concerned that new powers to stop bikies and organised criminals from consorting with each other will be difficult to enforce.

  • byAnnika Smethurst

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Premier walks back support for raising age of criminal responsibility to 14

Premier walks back support for raising age of criminal responsibility to 14

Jacinta Allan was asked three times whether she remained committed to lifting the minimum age to 14 by 2027,but refused to be drawn.

  • byAnnika Smethurst
How one photo on the front page of The Age in ’94 marked Melbourne’s Stonewall moment

How one photo on the front page of The Age in ’94 marked Melbourne’s Stonewall moment

This week marks 30 years since the widely condemned police raid on the queer party night known as Tasty. The queer community plans to celebrate the former club in style.

  • byRachael Dexter
Robert Campbell coughed and passed out. He now thinks convicted murderer Robert Farquharson is innocent

Robert Campbell coughed and passed out. He now thinks convicted murderer Robert Farquharson is innocent

Scepticism over Farquharson’s coughing and fainting story was at the centre of two prosecutions and two guilty verdicts that saw him sentenced to 33 years in prison for triple child murder.

  • byMichael Bachelard
Life as a country cop:When the road death isn’t a statistic,it’s a neighbour
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Life as a country cop:When the road death isn’t a statistic,it’s a neighbour

It’s not the remoteness of rural policing that’s the greatest challenge,it’s the intimacy – as retired police officer and writer Mark ‘Trigger’ Tregellas knows.

  • byJohn Silvester
Officer who fatally shot fugitive wielding an empty gun ‘acted appropriately’:coroner

Officer who fatally shot fugitive wielding an empty gun ‘acted appropriately’:coroner

Turvey was tasered and shot dead by police after a three-day manhunt. The coroner has found the officer who killed him acted appropriately.

  • byTara Cosoleto
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Coroner to investigate after builder dies from injuries sustained during arrest

Coroner to investigate after builder dies from injuries sustained during arrest

Luke Briggs,35,died from catastrophic injuries sustained during a police arrest in Hoppers Crossing last week. Police have not revealed what happened during his arrest.

  • byCameron Houston
Crime figures exploiting bail system amid claims of fake trackers,perjury and weapons offences

Crime figures exploiting bail system amid claims of fake trackers,perjury and weapons offences

There are concerns private bail operators are being abused by organised crime figures who can afford the steep $12,000-a-month fees to win release from custody.

  • byChris Vedelago andErin Pearson
CFMEU needs a complete rebuild
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CFMEU needs a complete rebuild

Beleaguered CFMEU national secretary Zach Smith says he wants to clean up his own house. But he’s deluded.

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Indigenous justice commission to probe worksite allegations amid CFMEU fallout

Indigenous justice commission to probe worksite allegations amid CFMEU fallout

Premier Jacinta Allan has also confirmed that the Victorian Labor Party had begun formal processes to eject the CFMEU’s construction division from its ranks.

  • byBroede Carmody andKieran Rooney
Victoria Police data management under fire after decade of device losses

Victoria Police data management under fire after decade of device losses

Data reveals that 40 devices have been lost by police or have been stolen,in 38 incidents classified as “data spills” which may have contained confidential information.

  • byDavid Estcourt