Law & Crime

Savvy terrorists and changing security issues have forced our intelligence agencies to pump huge money into funding and recruitment.

Margaret Cunneen, SC, blames a personal vendetta for ICAC’s investigation into whether she perverted the course of justice.

NSW’s top judge, Tom Bathurst, isn’t shy about stirring up the legal profession. He talks about suppression orders, judicial diversity and a bill of rights.

Online harassment is becoming a growing scourge, but its victims – most frequently young women – are offered little protection.

As an inquest searches for answers that may not exist, a grieving mother brings eloquence to an incoherent system.

He’s one of Melbourne’s most colourful characters, made famous throughout the land in the Underbelly TV drama. Here, Mick Gatto talks royal commissions, Brynne Edelsten and charity work.

Despite a royal commission being told that Hillsong’s senior pastor mishandled revelations of child sex abuse by his father and fellow church leader, the organisation’s global expansion continues apace.

From plans for a fashion range to live book launch crosses in New York, Julian Assange has found much to keep him busy during his 26 months holed up in a London embassy.

Australia is keen to aid the Kurds in the fight against the Islamic State, but less keen to admit we deem them terrorists at home.

Reports of sexual abuse and cruelty on Nauru are the latest in a long line of woes for the detention centre.