The Northern Territory government’s trial to permit retail sales of pepper spray has been criticised by police, who say it will endanger both the public and frontline officers.
ANALYSIS: In its $2.5 billion deal to deport at least 280 people released from indefinite detention, the government shows its willingness to circumvent both the Constitution and human rights law.
As the NSW government considers backing the Shooters party on a bill that would ease restrictions on weapons, those close to the 1996 massacre warn against any move that could fuel the national surge in gun ownership.
Almost a decade after sharing information relating to the Australian Taxation Office’s aggressive debt recovery tactics, whistleblower Richard Boyle has been spared jail.
A statement from the man who survived her poisoning dominated the plea hearing of mushroom murderer Erin Patterson, as her legal team detailed the conditions she is facing in jail.
An investigation by ASIO, the AFP and foreign partners steadily pieced together financial trails and communications that led to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
In a blow to animal rights activists and press freedom, the Federal Court has granted the copyright of footage taken at a Victorian slaughterhouse to the meat processor itself.
After five years of failed appeals and obfuscation, Qantas has been fined a record $90 million for breaching industrial laws when it outsourced its ground crews.
