Law, Crime and Justice

• Nauru refugees report series of attacks by locals

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  By Michael Edwards

  Posted March 20, 2015 08:40:47 | Updated March 20, 2015 08:42:46

  Tensions between refugees and locals on the pacific island of Nauru are heightened after a series of violent attacks that have left multiple refugees injured or arrested.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, immigration, refugees, nauru, pacific

• The park as a bogeyman, and other violence fallacies Opinion

  The Drum

  By Lauren Rosewarne

  Posted March 20, 2015 08:18:45

  After the murder of teenager Masa Vukotic, a police officer suggested women shouldn't be alone in parks. Once again women were being told the onus was on them to adjust their behaviour.

  Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, domestic-violence

• Police hunt for driver over cyclist hit-and-run in West Footscray

  Posted March 20, 2015 07:49:28

  Police are searching for a driver who fled after hitting a cyclist in Melbourne's west during peak hour on Tuesday.

  Topics: cycling, traffic-offences, law-crime-and-justice, west-footscray-3012, glenroy-3046

• Most NSW voters do not believe anti-terrorism laws go too far: Vote Compass

  By Claire Aird

  Posted March 20, 2015 07:34:15 | Updated March 20, 2015 10:00:08

  Most New South Wales voters are supportive of existing anti-terrorism laws, saying they do not believe they have gone too far, according to Vote Compass.

  Topics: elections, states-and-territories, law-crime-and-justice, terrorism, crime, police, nsw

• Egyptian court adjourns trial of Al Jazeera journalists

  Posted March 20, 2015 06:33:16

  The trial of two Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt is adjourned until March 25 after the court orders the creation of a new technical committee to review evidence.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, journalism, information-and-communication, egypt, australia, canada

• Lindt cafe in Martin Place reopens three months after deadly siege

  By Johanna Nicholson

  Posted March 20, 2015 06:33:16 | Updated March 20, 2015 10:12:40

  The Lindt cafe in Sydney's Martin Place reopens, three months after the siege that claimed the lives of two hostages.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000

• ICC should prosecute Islamic State for Iraq genocide: UN

  Posted March 19, 2015 22:15:01

  Islamic State fighters may have committed genocide against the minority Yazidi community in Iraq as well as war crimes which should be referred to the International Criminal Court, the United Nations human rights office says.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, courts-and-trials, human, iraq, netherlands

• Man accused of choking girlfriend found not guilty

  By Elizabeth Byrne

  Posted March 19, 2015 20:27:31

  A man accused of choking his girlfriend and threatening to kill her is found not guilty by an ACT Supreme Court jury.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act

• Child sex tourism thriving in Kenya's port city of Mombasa

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  By Africa correspondent Martin Cuddihy

  Posted March 19, 2015 18:56:22 | Updated March 20, 2015 07:02:10

  Martin Cuddihy reports from the Kenyan port city of Mombasa where as many as one in 10 children in the city either sell themselves, or are forced into having sex for money.

  Topics: prostitution, child-abuse, community-and-society, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, kenya

• China politicians' tiger breeding ring busted

  Posted March 19, 2015 18:13:06

  Three local politicians in China resign after it is discovered they raised at least 11 endangered Siberian tigers without permission, state media reports.

  Topics: animal-welfare, law-crime-and-justice, animals, china, asia

• Police release picture of suspect in Tuggeranong shootings

  Posted March 19, 2015 18:03:47

  Police release a facefit image of a man they are pursuing over the two shooting incidents in Chisholm and Gordon.

  Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600, act

• Volunteer firefighter found guilty of starting SA blaze

  Posted March 19, 2015 17:52:38 | Updated March 19, 2015 18:21:54

  A long-serving volunteer firefighter is found guilty of starting a bushfire at Clarendon, just south of Adelaide.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, arson, crime, law-crime-and-justice, volunteers, clarendon-5157, kangarilla-5157, adelaide-5000, sa

• Friends pay tribute to Australian man killed in Tunisia attack

  Posted March 19, 2015 17:21:14 | Updated March 19, 2015 22:45:30

  Friends of dual Australian-Colombian man Javier Camelo, killed in a terrorist attack in Tunisia, pay tribute to him on social media.

  Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, law-crime-and-justice, tunisia, australia

• At least two dead in Sweden pub shooting

  Posted March 19, 2015 16:51:38 | Updated March 19, 2015 20:38:36

  At least two people are killed and more than ten others injured in a pub shooting in the western Swedish city of Goteborg, police say.

  Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, sweden

• Social media sites face $17,000 fine for failing to remove offensive material

  By Matthew Doran

  Posted March 19, 2015 16:35:04 | Updated March 20, 2015 09:00:44

  New children's e-safety commissioner to have power to fine social media sites up to $17,000 a day for failing to remove offensive material.

  Topics: bullying, community-and-society, social-media, law-crime-and-justice, australia

• Former Thai leader Yingluck to face trial over rice scheme

  By South-East Asia correspondent Samantha Hawley, wires

  Posted March 19, 2015 16:33:57 | Updated March 19, 2015 16:47:10

  Thailand's former prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is ordered to stand trial on charges of negligence over a bungled rice subsidy scheme.

  Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, corruption, thailand, asia

• Victims in double murder suffered multiple stab wounds

  Posted March 19, 2015 16:03:06

  A forensic pathologist tells a double murder trial in Launceston that it was obvious both victims suffered multiple stab wounds, but he could not determine which wound had caused the death of one of the deceased.

  Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, ravenswood-7250, tas

• Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission makes formal start in SA

  Posted March 19, 2015 16:01:54 | Updated March 19, 2015 18:56:22

  Public hearings in remote Aboriginal communities are expected to be part of a royal commission in SA into nuclear energy.

  Topics: government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, states-and-territories, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, uranium-mining, sa, adelaide-5000, marla-5724

• Current deputy confirmed as next SA police commissioner

  Posted March 19, 2015 15:15:38 | Updated March 19, 2015 16:45:24

  South Australia's next police commissioner Grant Stevens plans to bring his personal style to the job but says people should not expect any dramatic policing changes.

  Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, states-and-territories, sa, adelaide-5000

• Raids uncover illegal farm workers in north-west Victoria

  Posted March 19, 2015 15:14:27

  Immigration officials have detained 37 illegal workers caught in raids on farms in north-west Victoria and southern New South Wales.

  Topics: immigration, work, law-crime-and-justice, robinvale-3549, mildura-3500

• Chan and Sukumaran appeal delayed by Indonesian court

  By Indonesia correspondent George Roberts

  Posted March 19, 2015 14:56:26 | Updated March 19, 2015 16:58:01

  Court appeals by two Australians attempting to avoid execution in Indonesia have begun but a decision is not expected to be handed down until next month.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, international-law, drug-offences, crime, courts-and-trials, indonesia

• Hobart man accused of hiding $5,000 worth of drugs in pine tree

  By Edith Bevin

  Posted March 19, 2015 14:50:10

  A Hobart man says he was "taking a leak" near a pine tree where police located thousand of dollars worth of methylamphetamine.

  Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, hobart-7000, tas

• Ley to raise legal service funding cuts with Brandis

  By Stephanie Smail

  Posted March 19, 2015 14:35:28 | Updated March 19, 2015 17:44:28

  Federal Health Minister Sussan Ley says she will raise concerns about legal service funding cuts in her electorate with Attorney-General George Brandis.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, federal-government, broken-hill-2880, australia

• Police officer denies telling women not to walk through parks alone

  Posted March 19, 2015 13:57:03

  A senior Victorian police officer denies warning women not to walk through parks alone and to be a "little bit more careful" after the stabbing death of a teenage girl in a Melbourne park.

  Topics: crime-prevention, crime, law-crime-and-justice, vic, australia

• Call for 'flash incarceration' for family court violators

  774 ABC Melbourne

  Posted March 19, 2015 13:16:04

  People who do not comply with family violence court orders should be jailed for 24 hours, a former Victorian attorney-general says.

  Topics: family-law, law-crime-and-justice, family, melbourne-3000

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