Victims often became aware they owed significant amounts only when they received penalty notices,and they usually had to pay the debts.
Female politicians face especially troubling threats of sexual violence in the increasingly febrile political environment,the AFP chief has said.
A grandfather’s simple gesture in the Supreme Court drives home the agony this family now endures. His daughter is dead,and his grandson faces years behind bars for murder.
The union has admitted it let women down in its response to violence as shocking examples of mistreatment emerge.
The family of the 19-year-old Brunswick woman who was allegedly murdered have called for media reporting on victims to be more sensitive to the impact on loved ones.
Australia’s top law reform agency wants all police,prosecutors and defence lawyers to go through mandatory training on rape myths,in one of several steps to reform a failing justice system.
Magistrate Brett Sonnet described CCTV footage of the incident as “absolutely outrageous” and “emblematic of cowardly conduct”.
Michael Gauci is accused of pouring accelerant over his neighbour and setting her on fire. He has been charged with attempted murder.
Instead of blood-spattered walls,family photographs adorn the home as the 53-year-old mother works to rebuild her life after escaping from the clutches of a monster she says was living in plain sight.
The influencer has been ordered to pay $20,000 after accusing the woman of complicity when a group of male students tore up a report into campus sexual violence.