Law & Crime

In country NSW, a small town is embarking on an innovative plan to keep potential law-breakers out of the justice system.

As a royal commission probes child protection and detention in the Northern Territory, ongoing issues of alcohol abuse, violence and neglect in Aboriginal families keep delivering new offenders into the system.

As a recent Queensland case shows, sexual assault complainants are often further traumatised by brutal questioning in court, made worse by enduring rape myths.

So-called lone wolf attacks make policing terrorism ever more fraught, but recent heroism on a multicultural suburban street shows the community standing together.

Prompted by the deaths of two Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory, an inquest has been held to examine ‘extreme domestic violence’ and the seeming inability of the justice system to protect those at risk.

With reduced powers to name corrupt individuals, ICAC’s findings are increasingly shaped by politics.

Deleted text messages and botched directions underscore the flaws in an operation senior police say was not their responsibility.

Inside the fractured groupings and white power fantasies of Australia’s far right, an alleged terrorist plot was forming.

At the heart of the NT government’s perpetual shambles is a crisis of fiscal racism that for decades has squandered federal money.

Abuse and tough rhetoric on crime are part of the same volatile equation, the former NT child commissioner explains.