Courts

A judge said the men, who were convicted of killing 68-year-old Raymond Smith during a drug-fuelled home invasion in the WA town of Greenbushes, showed no remorse.

The daughters of a motorcyclist killed in Canberra's north tried to reach him for their nightly phone call as he lay dying on the road, an ACT court has heard.

The main focus of a coronial inquest into the death of a Perth mother and her daughter will be the medical care their killer Mark Bombara received in the lead up to the double-murder suicide, a coroner reveals. 

The mother of a man found guilty of murdering underworld figure Gavin Preston has told the Supreme Court her son has always been polite and considerate.

It comes in the wake of Queensland's DNA testing debacle, which triggered the retesting of forensic samples going back years.

A mother whose son was abused by a Sydney out-of-school-hours care worker has spoken of the daily torment she now faces.

Dozens of students completing VCE Chinese language subjects face an uncertain future after a Chinese community language school goes into administration.

The grandparent of missing four-year-old Gus Lamont has been fined $10,500 for possession of a gun silencer at the family's Oak Park Station, in South Australia's far north. Police have previously said the offence is not related to his disappearance.

The United Firefighters Union and its secretary Peter Marshall are behind a legal attempt to stop a report by Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog from being published.

The former childcare worker sexually abused dozens of children at centres for almost two decades.

A young man who could have paid $115 to discard a trailer load of tyres has been fined thousands for illegally dumping them down a mine shaft in a national heritage-listed area — and ordered to clean it up.

Hundreds of businesses and organisations are part of a major Victorian Supreme Court class action against chemical manufacturer 3M.

The family of a Gold Coast woman who died following complications from a surgery performed by Reza Adib have called for accountability and meaningful change in the wake of damning inquest findings.

Andrew Graham enters not guilty pleas to two counts of rape and one charge of compelling a person to sexually manipulate an offender.

Andrew Mungatopi has been sentenced to 10 years and two months in prison for the fatal stabbing of his niece in a Darwin backyard in 2024.

Jonathan Rinderknecht's attorney countered that a hilltop blaze was triggered by fireworks, not his client, and that the massive Palisades inferno that killed 12 people was a separate fire set by others.

A Victorian court hears that a regional pub where five people died when a driver had a hypoglycaemic episode, crashing his car through diners, did not have a valid outdoor dining permit at the time of the crash.

A former Victoria Police officer is sentenced to six months in prison after repeatedly harassing a woman on social media.

Two men who "exploited the vulnerability" of multiple victims by swindling millions of dollars in a fraudulent property investment scheme have been jailed for the "undoubtedly serious" offending.

The estranged husband of Rehana Parvin, whose body was found in Bangladesh in 2024, will not be allowed to sell the three homes they owned together.