Law & Crime

A Federal Court ruling on the ASADA v Essendon saga is pending. So how did it all come to this?

Bags of money and faulty memories cost two Newcastle Liberals their jobs.

As the spotlight shines on institutional responses to child sex abuse, one victim tells how her church community made her feel more punished than the perpetrator.

An outsider during the Howard years, George Brandis is at the centre of this government, and at the centre of its follies.

A $50 million funding program for CCTV installation is touted to make our streets safer, despite studies that show cameras don’t prevent crime. So is it really just aimed at protecting ‘friends of the government’?

Researching ice addiction, the writer moved in to a meth house. Over three months, he became seduced by the drug and descended into psychosis.

In the booming payday lending sector, dubious new tactics are hooking the poor and the desperate.

International AIDS Conference delegates were surprised by a Victorian government announcement to amend a law targeting murder by infection.

Seen as a victory for Aboriginal people in the early 1970s, then a flashpoint for vice in the ’90s, the Block is once again in the spotlight, this time dividing the Indigenous community it was built to serve.

A US federal court has ruled that magician Teller can maintain his silence on his most famous trick.