State Ombudsman Chris Field has described the Cook Government’s move to block taxpayers from picking up the $200,000 bill for a research report with little local relevance as an affront to his independence.
Sean Smith
Prosecutors have dropped another high-profile prosecution — this time against a top-shelf barrister who was accused of causing grievous bodily harm to a man on a Northbridge street after a glitzy legal event.
Tim Clarke
A Kojonup shearer has been sentenced to prison after breaking a teenager’s jaw in two places and taking his ex partner and their two children on a terrifying drive and threatening to kill her.
Georgia Campion
The partner of a woman who is accused of changing her superannuation details to make himself the beneficiary hours after she had died told the fund managers he ‘just wanted to get everything sorted’.
A teenage girl accused of stabbing and slashing a 74-year-old good Samaritan with a box cutter as he tried to protect a fellow bus passenger claims she can’t remember the shocking incident because she was drunk
Emily Moulton
Arson squad detectives are investigating a fire at a cigarette business in Medina that caused extensive damage.
Lauren Price
A man who drove at 140km/h through residential areas while police were pursuing him and also smashed windows at his mother’s home and assaulted a police officer in a drug-fuelled outburst has been jailed.
Anneke de Boer
An 18-year-old accused of being the driver during an armed robbery at a pensioner’s home in Wandina has breached his home detention bail by smoking cannabis.
Jessica Moroney
A young woman who attempted to rip a woman out of the driver’s seat of a car at an intersection, and sat on top of her lap, dangerously taking control of the vehicle, has avoided jail.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is among six tech giants issued with legal notices forcing them to reveal what they’re doing to protect Australians from terrorist and violent extremist material and activity.
Remy Varga
The trial of two men accused of raping a woman in a Scarborough Beach toilet has been told that one was a man who showed a ‘preparedness to lie’ while the other was ‘evasive, arrogant and far from trustworthy’.
A 30-year-old man has faced court charged with the murder of a 22-year-old Perth woman.
Phil Hickey
The identity of the man accused of filming women inside the toilets of a Fremantle university has been revealed.
Gabrielle Becerra Mellet
Qantas is facing a multimillion-dollar bill after it was found guilty of illegally firing 1700 workers during the COVID pandemic.
Adelaide Lang
A man accused of assaulting his partner before punching and knocking unconscious a family member who came to her aid had his bid for bail rejected.
Tegan Guthrie
Entrepreneur Naomi Cuizon Hughes-Morris has enjoyed a privileged life helping people in some of Australia’s most remote communities.
Sarah Crawford
A jetsetting couple who deliberately defrauded creditors of failed investment schemes by hiding a windfall inheritance, splashing the money on themselves, have been locked up behind bars.
Rebecca Le May
The victim of an alleged investment fraud scheme has revealed he trusted the Mandurah man who allegedly orchestrated the dodgy dealings because of the luxury lifestyle he boasted.
A FIFO worker who crashed into a car as he sped through traffic lights at more than twice the legal speed limit then fled the scene, leaving behind a severely injured woman, has been jailed for four years.
A magistrate is considering releasing a man police believe to be a Rebels bikie from behind bars despite accusations he took part in a terrifying daylight shooting in suburban Baldivis last year.
Rachel Fenner
A man viciously beat his mother with a baseball bat, splitting her head open and repeatedly striking her to the body as she sat outside a church.
A man who removed his ankle bracelet and breached home detention bail has been granted more lenient bail despite police raising concerns it was ‘rewarding him for non-compliance’.
A Cuballing man and former outlaw gang member who threatened to shoot a man in the face has been sentenced to a suspended imprisonment order.
A Mt Barker man who pointed a blow torch at police officers after breaking into a restaurant and setting fire to it in a ‘drug-induced psychosis’ has been sentenced to three years imprisonment.
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