The Albanese government will introduce legislation to ban deepfake pornography and provide more funding for the eSafety Commission to pilot age-assurance technologies. The contribution of internet sites to gender-based violence was one major issue at Wednesday’s special national cabinet meeting on the issue of violence against women. After the meeting […]
Crime
The rate of women killed by their partners in Australia grew by 28% from 2021–22 to 2022–23, according to new statistics released today by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC). There were 34 women killed in intimate partner incidents in the financial year 2022–23, which is the equivalent of 0.32 […]
Just days after the deadly Westfield Bondi attacks, a second knife attack in Sydney has generated widespread shock and grief. This time, a 16-year-old entered an Assyrian church and rushed forward to stab the popular bishop presiding over a service, together with a priest who rushed to his defence. The shocking events were […]
Australia’s Ahmadiyya community united in grief on Sunday evening, commemorating the victims of Saturday’s tragic Bondi Junction massacre. Among the six lives lost was Faraz Tahir, a 30-year-old security guard at Westfield shopping centre. Queensland man Joel Cauchi, 40, went on a stabbing spree, claiming Tahir’s life. Tahir, who sought […]
Joel Cauchi, a 40-year-old man from Queensland, has been identified as the man behind a fatal stabbing spree at Westfield shopping centre in Sydney’s Bondi Junction on Saturday. Cauchi’s rampage claimed the lives of six people and left at least a dozen others wounded. Among the victims was 38-year-old Ash […]
Police are investigating the life, background, and connections of a man responsible for the brutal murder of six people following a stabbing spree at Sydney’s bustling Bondi Junction Westfield on Saturday afternoon. The 40-year-old suspect was killed in a confrontation with a senior police officer, sparking a frenzied mass evacuation. […]
The number of young people under youth justice supervision has significantly declined in recent years, however, amidst this positive shift, one glaring issue persists: the stark overrepresentation of First Nations youths in Australia’s justice system. First Nations young people aged 10–17 are approximately 23 times more likely than their non-Indigenous […]
In a high-profile operation on Monday, Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) agents conducted a raid on a Holmby Hills mansion linked to rap icon Sean “Diddy” Combs and his production company. The exact motive behind the raid remains shrouded in mystery, yet it unfolds against the backdrop of Combs’ escalating legal […]
Mother and family YouTube creator Ruby Franke was this week sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to four counts of aggravated child abuse. Franke came under fire from viewers many times throughout her time on YouTube for her controversial parenting, which included videos of withholding food from the children, or sharing […]
NSW Premier Chris Minns has announced plans to explicitly outlaw the Nazi salute across the state amid concerns about the growing presence of white supremacist groups in Sydney. The decision comes in the wake of another neo-Nazi rally in Sydney on Sunday morning, marking the third such gathering in three […]
