Horrific details of how a woman died from a lack of care in her squalid home, covered in faeces and ulcers and using her couch as a toilet, have been detailed in court. Julie Lynette Delaney shakily told the court she was sorry for her actions after her mother, NoeleneContinue Reading
Victoria Police received multiple reports about the welfare of a 12-year-old girl “running wild” on the streets and being “prostituted out” to men despite being in state care for at least a year before she was charged with murder last week. The child, who cannot be named for legal reasons,Continue Reading
A major overhaul into Victoria’s child protection and justice systems could be on the cards as a new report finds they continue to harm Indigenous Australians and put Aboriginal children on a path to criminality. The Yoorrook Justice Commission report found extensive systemic injustice, racism, discriminatory laws and policy failuresContinue Reading
Police suspect foul play after a young man’s body was discovered by cleaners in a short-stay Melbourne apartment. On Thursday, Victoria Police revealed the homicide squad has been called in after the post-mortem examination of the 22-year-old from Kings Park in Melbourne’s northwest raised suspicions. The man was found unresponsiveContinue Reading
Out-of-control youth in Alice Springs have been filmed hurling racial abuse, spitting and assaulting pub patrons in a weekend of violence just days after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s visit to the troubled outback town. Rachel Hale, 45, captured the series of encounters from her room above The Diplomat Hotel onContinue Reading
The age of criminal responsibility will be considered by the country’s attorneys-general when they meet on Friday. The second attorneys-general meeting of the year, chaired by federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, will also consider whether to release a landmark report advocates say the previous government kept hidden. There have long beenContinue Reading