Immigration minister Andrew Giles has revealed the government is tracking 153 immigration detainees including accused rapists and murderers using taxpayer-funded drones. The minister has revealed for the first time that the government has taken drastic measures to keep tabs on the scores of detainees who the government was forced toContinue Reading
Australia’s domestic spy agency wants to give up its right to request warrants to question children as young as 14 after it reported only a handful of minors had been charged with terror offences since 9/11. ASIO told a parliamentary inquiry that the federal government should scrap laws that enableContinue Reading
The labelling of the stabbing at a church in Wakeley as a terrorist incident has left the local community on edge, federal independent MP for the southwestern Sydney are Dai Le says. Ms Le, whose electorate of Fowler is home to the Christ Good Shepherd Church where its leader, BishopContinue Reading
Artificial intelligence has created a new minefield for intelligence and law enforcement agencies as they battle new frontiers of terrorism threats, child exploitation material and scams. In a joint address to the National Press Club, the country’s top spy, ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess and Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece KershawContinue Reading
Four people, including the suspected ringleader of a global drug mule syndicate, have been arrested after attempting to smuggle 30kg worth of cocaine into Australia. Federal police arrested and charged three women at Melbourne Airport on April 12 after discovering approximately 10kg of cocaine stashed inside of six suitcases. TheContinue Reading
NSW Premier Chris Minns revealed he is “not prepared to say” he has full confidence in the state’s multibillion-dollar mental health network, after Sydney was rocked by two horrific alleged knife attacks. Six people were killed at the Bondi Junction Westfield on Saturday after Queensland man Joel Cauchi attacked shoppersContinue Reading
The peak body for Jewish Australians has lodged vilification complaints against two Sydney Islamic preachers over sermons that described Jewish people as “monsters”, “vile”, and “bloodthirsty”. In complaints to the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry says the two “anti-Semitic sermons” delivered by western Sydney clericsContinue Reading
One of Anthony Albanese’s last chances of talking up his tax cuts in parliament before this Saturday’s by-election was overwhelmed by controversy after the arrest of released detainee. Labor backbenchers may have kept the dixers coming during Question Time on how every Australian will benefit from the new-look stage threeContinue Reading
Kay Lang had just moved to the Gold Coast in 2012 to study when she met a charismatic entrepreneur at a nightclub and was instantly swept off her feet. Damion St Patrick Baston introduced himself as a 30-year-old American restaurateur who had grand plans to expand his business interests inContinue Reading
Police made a series of “critical failures” during one of the deadliest school shootings in US history, a damning new report has concluded. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed when a teenage gunman went on a rampage at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas in May 2022. Footage ofContinue Reading