Victoria Police is claiming it’s not responsible for failing to protect Gobbo’s identity because she may have committed crimes while acting as a barrister-turned-informer.
The police search for Bridget Flack – whose body was found in park by members of the LGBTQ community – was plagued by deficiencies,including a failure to appreciate her risk of suicide and delayed efforts to triangulate her phone.
Mano Yogalingam had been part of a protest demanding permanent residency for more than 8000 people who arrived in Australia by boat more than a decade ago.
The Jetstar flight had just landed at Melbourne Airport when the passenger wrenched open the emergency exit door.
Chief Commissioner Shane Patton said the rise of right-wing extremism was a significant concern,but religious radicalism remains the greatest public security threat.
A home linked to Sam “The Punisher” Abdulrahim,a marked underworld figure and professional boxer,was targeted again in one of five suspicious fires across Melbourne overnight.
Law enforcement agencies are concerned that new powers to stop bikies and organised criminals from consorting with each other will be difficult to enforce.
Jacinta Allan was asked three times whether she remained committed to lifting the minimum age to 14 by 2027,but refused to be drawn.
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.
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.
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.