Tag: Crime - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- Pharmacists renew call to get rid of speed ingredient
Pharmacists have stepped up their calls for products containing pseudoephedrine to be removed from pharmacies. - Govt's youth violence campaign welcomed
The father of a Brisbane teenager bashed to death outside a birthday party has welcomed a state Government campaign against youth violence. - Aurukun rape case review expected by month's end
Queensland Attorney-General Kerry Shine says the Director of Public Prosecution's (DPP) review of a court case involving the gang-rape of a 10-year-old-girl at the Cape York Indigenous Aurukun will be completed by the end of the month. - Drink-driver loses appeal over breath test
A Tasmanian man who refused to stop his motorbike for a breathalyser test has lost his appeal against his drink-driving conviction. - Escapees to be extradited to Victoria
Victoria Police will fly to Adelaide this afternoon, to apply for the extradition of two men who escaped from a prison van in Melbourne last week. - Pirate DVDs seized in raid
Police has seized about 50,000 pirated movie DVDs at a house in St Albans today after a tip-off from a member of the public. - Atkinson calls for investigation into alleged cover-ups
Queensland's Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson says further investigation is needed into claims by a Cape York police officer that child sex abuse cases were covered-up by State Government ministers. - Ex-Darwin lord mayor launches appeal against theft conviction
The Northern Territory Supreme Court is considering an appeal by former Darwin lord mayor Peter Adamson in relation to the theft of council money. - Child porn ring accused front court
An unemployed man and a 22-year-old who was about to take up a primary school teaching position have faced court over an alleged child pornography ring spanning three states. - Terrorism plot suspect refused bail
The New South Wales Supreme Court has refused a bail application from one of nine men charged with terrorism-related offences. - Man gets 30yrs for killing partners' sons
A 41-year-old Sydney man has been jailed for up to 30 years for killing two sisters' little sons more than a decade apart. - Pseudoephedrine withdrawal 'impractical'
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has rejected calls for the immediate withdrawal of products contains pseudoephedrine. - Escapee prisoners arrested in Adelaide
Victoria Police say two men who escaped from custody last Friday have been arrested in Adelaide. - Cue backs crime fighting funds
The Shire of Cue, in mid-west Western Australia, has welcomed a funding boost from the State Government towards its community safety and crime prevention plan. - Porn ring 'targeted overseas children'
Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty says more arrests are likely from an investigation into a child pornography ring that spanned three states and targeted children in Australia and overseas. - Man arrested over apartment block murder
A man has been arrested over the stabbing of another man at an apartment block at Redfern, in inner Sydney. - New calls for pharmacy pseudoephedrine ban
There are renewed calls for pseudoephedrine products used to make the drug "ice" to be removed from pharmacies. - Tighter restrictions on drugs in SA pubs
It is now illegal for people to take certain prescription or controlled drugs into licensed premises after 9:00pm in South Australia. - Melb police hunt for grave site thief
Melbourne police are searching for those who stole items from a grave site at the children's section of the Springvale Cemetery. - Man attacked with hammer during home invasion
Northern Territory Police say a 30-year-old man was hit with a hammer in the head when he disturbed an intruder in his Darwin home. - Fatal hit, run occurred in 'black spot area'
Residents have described the location of a fatal hit-run crash in the Adelaide Hills as a dangerous spot where many accidents happen. - Man charged over petrol station blaze
Police have charged a man who is alleged to have set fire to a petrol station at Avoca Beach on the New South Wales central coast last night. - Italian police arrest Naples mafia boss
A mafia boss considered one of Italy's 30 most dangerous fugitives has been arrested in Naples, police said. - Police probe 2 Melbourne stabbings
Police are investigating two separate stabbings in Melbourne.