Law & Crime

EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk’s former friend, polymath Philip Low, has committed $250 million to litigating tech bros over mail tampering and false advertising.

The audit office has found the Department of Health failed to disclose conflicts of interest, did not keep records of entertainment and ignored legal advice when awarding a consultancy millions of dollars in a disastrous attempt to reform Meals on Wheels.

Queensland’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors faces a Supreme Court challenge, based on a lack of consultation and concern for the interests of the children.

Witnesses testify at the trial of Erin Patterson, as the Crown tries to prove she intentionally killed three family members by poisoning them at a lunch in 2023.

Following the police shooting of a homeless man in Footscray, there have been renewed calls for a paramedic-first approach to acute mental-health episodes.

As Australia’s national security apparatus is increasingly applied to pursuing suspected people smugglers, foundational concepts of justice are being cast aside.

As the coronial inquest begins into last year’s mass stabbing at a Bondi Junction shopping centre, the female police officer who ended the killing spree tells how those three minutes of terror also restored her faith in humanity.

While headlines on the so-called tobacco wars focus on firebombings, extortion and gangland jealousies, skyrocketing government taxes on tobacco have long been fuelling the fire behind the scenes.

Two vessels used by the ADF to detain asylum seekers have been declared by the Commonwealth Ombudsman to be in violation of Australia’s human rights commitments.

Almost a decade after a royal commission recommended the government establish counselling services for child abuse survivors and others, a bungled tender process has failed to establish the helplines.