Police deny duty of care to protect Nicola Gobbo,in bid to avoid paying compensation
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Police deny duty of care to protect Nicola Gobbo,in bid to avoid paying compensation

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.

  • byChris Vedelago andCameron Houston

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Coroner urges missing persons overhaul after probe into deaths of young trans women

Coroner urges missing persons overhaul after probe into deaths of young trans women

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.

  • byMelissa Cunningham
Asylum seeker dies in Melbourne a day after self-immolation
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Asylum seeker dies in Melbourne a day after self-immolation

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.

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos andHenrietta Cook
Emergency slide deployed after Jetstar passenger forced open emergency exit door
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Emergency slide deployed after Jetstar passenger forced open emergency exit door

The Jetstar flight had just landed at Melbourne Airport when the passenger wrenched open the emergency exit door.

  • byHannah Kennelly
Religious extremism still main security concern,warns Victoria’s top cop

Religious extremism still main security concern,warns Victoria’s top cop

Chief Commissioner Shane Patton said the rise of right-wing extremism was a significant concern,but religious radicalism remains the greatest public security threat.

  • byChris Vedelago
Tobacco war kingpin’s firebombings target underworld rival,hospitalise kids
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Tobacco war kingpin’s firebombings target underworld rival,hospitalise kids

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.

  • byChris Vedelago andLachlan Abbott
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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
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